Senior Manager, Business Transformation | Corporate Finance | Milan

Who We Are 

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities.

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career. 

Are you ready to make an impact?

About The Role

In Business Transformation at FTI Consulting, we focus on our clients’ strategic, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of financial and transactional challenges faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders. Our services include pre-deal commercial and operations due diligence, post-merger integration, business plan development, restructuring and performance improvement including interim management. Our demanding customer base relies on small and senior teams.

What You’ll Do

The successful candidate will participate in project teams, working with clients on the execution of various engagements and also assist with ongoing business development activity.

As such, key activities include:

• Company financial analysis (knowledge of and experience in P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow assessments preferred)
• Market analysis
• Operational analysis (e.g. OEE assessment, FTE benchmark)
• Business plan development
• Identification of upside / downside potentials
• Financial/operational Excel modelling
• Strategy formulation
• Private equity due diligence reports 
• Improvement concept development and implementation support
• Presentation writing
• Participation in client/internal meetings (regular and extensive travel requirement)
• Project or sub-team lead

How You’ll Grow

The role will allow you flexibility to put in place your own framework for success and to work collaboratively with the wider team to support the exciting growth in the FTI Corporate Finance practice.  The role is by its nature, flexible allowing for the expansion of opportunities or responsibilities outside of the areas set out above into other matters that you feel can contribute to the broader remit to enhance our technical compliance and operational leanness.  There is also the opportunity to interact with industry bodies and networks and / or develop thought leadership. Given the focus on technical excellence, the role will demand that you remain keen to learn and full support will be given to any third-party training or coaching required to assist with the role.

Furthermore, we are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth. 

As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

What You Will Need to Succeed

Basic Qualifications & Experience

• Educated to university degree level (or equivalent), preferably in a numerical discipline or that has a numerical element
• Demonstrable consulting experience (2 yrs Big4, premium brands)
• Project experience in high paced environments focused on rapid results (e.g. due diligence, turnaround, rapid performance improvement)
• Demonstrable industry experience and expertise in companies with complex operations or environments in a number of industry sectors ((industrial products, chemicals, consumer goods, business services desirable) gained either in consulting or industry roles
• Ability to demonstrate deliverable results across multiple functions in the following focus areas:

  o   Transactions

  o   Operations

  o   Financial modelling

  o   Business plan review/development

  o   Performance improvement, ideally in turnaround situations, including diagnosis

  o   Commercial functions

  o   Implementation

  o   Programme management

• Senior management and PE relationships (particularly at Senior Director level)

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent consulting skills, specifically:

o   Strong verbal communication skills and the ability to interact with team members and clients at all levels using a range of styles to suit the audience

o   Strong written communication skills with experience of producing client ready PowerPoint documents for senior audiences

o   Relationship building skills, with the ability to quickly build rapport, develop strong working relationships and work in diverse teams

o   Analytics and modelling skills

o   Proven ability to take a hypothesis focused approach to solve problems from first principals

o   Excellent organisational and planning skills and confident working with a number of demanding stakeholders, with the ability to handle multiple tasks

o   Equally strong EQ and IQ

• Strong commercial acumen/market awareness
• Flexible approach to work, with the desire and capability to work across sectors and project types
• Highly numerate with the ability to absorb a high quantum of information
• Strong collaboration kills
• Desire and ability to learn and be enthusiastic around further training
• Computer literate with strong Excel and PowerPoint skills 
• Fluent English and Italian speaker and writer
• Other continental languages highly preferable

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