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Senior Consultant (f/m/d) Finance & Accounting Advisory

Schweiz (Zürich)
Full-time
Permanent employee

Key responsibilities

You support managerial employees in advising clients on complex accounting and financial reporting matters, taking ownership of your workstreams. Your work includes:
  • Perform technical accounting research and apply new and amended accounting standards and translate the impact into practical implementation steps for clients. 
  • Build and document supporting calculations with clear, auditable workpapers (e.g. for GAAP conversions). 
  • Prepare financial statements, disclosures, and client deliverables, taking responsibility for their quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
  • Assist clients through the period-end close - reconciliations, consolidation entries, and quality review of reporting packages. 
  • Contribute to finance optimization engagements across the full project lifecycle: process (re)design, AI Readiness assessments, implementation of automation tools, and delivery of our AI-driven managed services.
  • Own defined workstreams day to day - planning your work, meeting deadlines, and keeping your engagement leader informed of progress and issues.
  • Build trusted working relationships with client finance teams and develop your commercial awareness.
  • Contribute to internal knowledge-sharing - templates, technical updates, and training materials.
  • Coach and review the work of consultants through technical review, knowledge-sharing, and feedback.

Required qualifications & attributes for success

You will recognize yourself in most of the following:
  • An academic background in accounting, finance, or economics, ideally paired with (or working toward) a qualified accountant credential (CPA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent).
  • Three to five years in a Big 4 or comparable advisory or audit environment, or in a technical accounting or financial reporting role in industry.
  • Solid, applied knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP (SCO and/or Swiss GAAP FER a plus), with the motivation to deepen your technical expertise.
  • Fluent German and English.
The qualities and skills that will take you furthest with us:
  • Confidence in working with modern finance technology and digital tools in advisory delivery.
  • The interpersonal skill to build trusted relationships with clients, finance teams, and external auditors.
  • Drive, determination, and quick comprehension, with the ability to manage several workstreams and deliver quality under tight timelines.
  • Curiosity, a collaborative instinct, and the ambition to thrive somewhere entrepreneurial and growing fast.
  • Interest in continuous professional development in accounting and/or corporate finance.

Why join us

We invest in our people and back it up with real benefits:
  • Above-average compensation
  • Pillar 2 occupational pension plan with increased savings rates
  • 25 vacation days
  • Flexible working
  • Reka-Lunch meal card
  • SBB half-fare travelcard
  • Mobile phone with a fully covered European carrier plan
  • Internal coaching program
  • Company events (office outings | quarterly events)

Privacy Notice

By submitting your application, you are providing personal data to CFGI Germany GmbH, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 10, 70174 Stuttgart ("CFGI"). This is necessary in order for your application to be considered. CFGI processes the data you provide for the purpose of further reviewing your application.
 
Please note that CFGI is part of the globally operating CFGI Group, which includes, in particular, companies in the United States (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). The position advertised here involves an international scope of work and integration into international teams. This may require involving colleagues based outside the European Union already at the application stage. Your application documents will be made available electronically to colleagues with whom you will later work (in the USA and/or UK). CFGI always ensures an appropriate level of data protection in doing so.
 
Your data will be processed exclusively for the purpose of the application process and will be deleted after the selection process is completed, in compliance with statutory retention periods. You also have the right to access, erasure, and data portability under Art. 20 GDPR, as well as, where applicable, the right to have incorrect data we process about you corrected. Likewise, you may object to the processing of your data by us and request that it be restricted.
 
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About us

We offer holistic and innovative solutions along the entire CFO agenda. Together, we create real added value for our clients!

As part of the CFGI Group, we offer our clients a unique combination of integrity, flexibility, creative solutions, and in-depth expertise. Many of our clients are leading publicly listed companies worldwide, while others are privately held, private equity-owned, early-stage, or emerging venture capital-backed companies. CFGI was founded in 2000 by former Big Four experts. As an established industry leader, CFGI has the resources needed to navigate today's complex world of accounting, reporting, and compliance.

At CFGI, we place great emphasis on a culture of continuous learning, where teamwork is encouraged and outstanding professional performance is rewarded. We offer a flexible career model that opens up a wide range of challenging opportunities throughout your career. At CFGI, exceptional individuals - both personally and professionally - have come together in an innovative and dynamic advisory firm that guides its clients along the path of a modern CFO agenda. We combine technical, procedural, and process expertise with strong digitalization capabilities.

What truly makes the difference for us is our unique team! We love what we do and enjoy working together: technical excellence and experience, paired with the necessary pragmatism and a great deal of commitment and passion.