Senior Consultant - Finance Implement

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Senior Consultant – Finance Implement

Designation: Senior Consultant

Department: Technology and transformation

Purpose of the Role:

As the Senior Consultant, you will lead and support the transformation of finance operations—particularly across treasury, accounts payable, and cash management—through the design, implementation, and optimization of ERP and treasury management systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams and external vendors to deliver digital solutions that enhance financial control, improve liquidity visibility, and streamline payment processes.

This role requires deep expertise in tools like Kyriba and strong familiarity with end-to-end finance processes. You will play a critical part in defining future-state operating models, standardizing workflows, and enabling scalable automation in alignment with regulatory requirements and business needs. You will manage project lifecycles from strategy through deployment and post-go-live stabilization—ensuring high-quality delivery and measurable business impact.

Your work will directly contribute to strengthening financial governance, reducing operational risks, and increasing efficiency in financial transactions and reporting across global operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Treasury and Cash Management Systems Implementation

      The role focuses on below listed solutions that align with our clients’ needs:

•  Treasury Transformation
•  Treasury Systems and Analytics
•  Treasury Managed Services

The responsibilities include:

·      Lead the end-to-end design, configuration, and deployment of ERP and Treasury Management Systems (TMS) preferably Kyriba, with a focus on treasury and payments modules.

·      Drive the setup of core treasury functionalities including cash positioning, cash pooling, bank account structures, FX exposure management, intercompany lending, and bank connectivity.

·      Configure and validate cash flow forecasting models and liquidity management tools to optimize visibility and working capital.

·      Develop and maintain secure and compliant payment workflows, approval hierarchies, and PET (payment execution templates) for global operations.

·      Support Kyriba solution Design process for clients, to cater the core Treasury operations.

·      Configuring Static data in Kyriba for in-scope treasury functionalities

Accounts Payable Process Optimization

·      Redesign and implement streamlined accounts payable processes across ERP platforms—covering invoice processing, vendor management, disbursement workflows, and payment automation.

·      Align AP systems with internal controls and compliance requirements, ensuring robust segregation of duties and approval mechanisms.

·      Coordinate payment testing with internal stakeholders and banks, ensuring seamless integrations and successful go-live readiness for all payment methods.

·      Establish KPI dashboards for AP performance monitoring, including aging, payment cycle time, and exceptions tracking.

·      Managing Creditors Report, Ageing analysis, TDS, and GST compliances

• Enabling the integration and automatic processing of different types of Bank Statements (Prior Day / Intra-day) by configuring the BTC sets, codes and applicability criteria. Troubleshooting any missing statement or other possible issues with Cash Reconciliation

·      Deploying basic and advanced Cash forecasting. This includes Integration to ERP (AP/AR), to manually import the forecasting sheets, capturing recurring transactions, such as bi-weekly payroll or weekly lockbox receipts, and variance analysis with two sets of data.

Finance Transformation and PMO Leadership

·      Act as PMO lead on finance process transformation projects—developing project plans, tracking milestones, managing resources, and reporting progress to senior leadership.

·      Coordinate cross-functional teams across IT, Finance, Treasury, and external vendors to deliver unified, scalable solutions.

·      Conduct business process analysis, identify automation opportunities, and lead design workshops with stakeholders to define future-state processes.

·      Support post-implementation activities such as user training, documentation, issue resolution, change requests, and continuous improvement initiatives.

·      Creating and managing the SIT and UAT test documents, Payments Test Plans, and User Guides, delivering trainings to end users.

Person Specification:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field

MBA in Finance or equivalent is highly preferred.

Experience: 8+ years of hands-on experience in treasury, cash management, accounts payable, or related financial functions.

·  2+ years of experience directly in implementing Treasury management solutions (Kyriba)

·  Demonstrated experience in PMO-led finance transformation, including planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale initiatives.

Skills

·  Kyriba – Working knowledge of at least two Kyriba modules like Core Data, Bank and Cash, Payments, Accounting, Financial Transactions, Security. Exposure to Kyriba Connectivity, BAM and BFA would be an added advantage.

·  A good understanding of Treasury, Cash Management, Cash Pools, Account structures, and global Payment methods.

·  Strong functional knowledge of treasury operations, accounts payable, cash management, and intercompany flows.

·  Hands-on experience with Kyriba or similar Treasury Management Systems, including cash forecasting, payments, and liquidity tools.

·  ERP design and implementation expertise, particularly across financial modules.

·  PMO capabilities, including project planning, stakeholder alignment, risk tracking, and milestone delivery.

·  Experience integrating ERP/TMS systems with banking networks and financial institutions.

·  Knowledge of global payment formats and regulatory compliance

·  Strong understanding of COA (Chart of Accounts), GL interfaces, and automated reconciliation processes.

·  Business process reengineering and workflow optimization skills across finance operations.

·  Ability to lead workshops and trainings, manage UAT cycles, and support post-go-live stabilization.

·  Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and vendor coordination.