Senior Commercial & Financial Strategy Consultant

About the role

A leading consulting firm is engaging a senior commercial and finance specialist to work alongside its client's leadership team on growth, performance improvement and transformation initiatives. The role suits someone who has operated at executive level and can move between board-level strategy and hands-on modelling; it is not a pure analyst position. It runs 2-3 days per week initially until December, with scope potentially increasing, and is based on site at the client's premises in Sydney.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain financial models, P&Ls, forecasts and scenario analyses to support commercial decisions
• Lead activity-based costing work, establishing cost-to-serve, cost drivers and allocation methodology
• Conduct service value reviews across products, service lines and client segments, recommending where to invest, reprice, redesign or exit
• Translate strategy into measurable commercial plans covering pricing, margin, unit economics, growth cases and business cases
• Partner with, or help set up, FP&A capability including budgeting cycles, forecasting, management reporting and KPI frameworks
• Identify and quantify performance improvement opportunities across revenue, cost and operating model, and support execution
• Support go-to-market planning with business cases, channel economics and post-implementation review
• Present findings and recommendations to executives and boards

Required profile

• 10+ years in senior commercial strategy, corporate finance or FP&A leadership roles
• Consulting background (strategy, transaction services or performance improvement), or equivalent depth in-house across multiple businesses or transformation programs
• Demonstrated experience designing and applying activity-based costing and cost-to-serve models in complex, multi-service organisations
• Track record of service value or portfolio reviews that led to real pricing, investment or rationalisation decisions
• Sector exposure in healthcare, insurance, banking or other financial services
• Experience leading or partnering with FP&A teams, and comfort working in ambiguity with incomplete data

Required skills

• Strategy consulting and financial modelling
• Activity-based costing and cost-to-serve
• FP&A, budgeting and forecasting
• Financial analytics and performance analysis