Senior Manager, CFO Advisory - Cost Optimization & Value Creation

The posting, as West Monroe wrote it

Are you ready to make an impact?

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Manager to lead cost optimization and value creation engagements within our growing CFO Advisory team in our Operations Excellence practice. This role is designed for a finance transformation leader who combines financial rigor, operating model expertise, analytical depth, and practical implementation experience to help CFOs and private equity sponsors deliver sustainable cost improvement.

As a Senior Manager, you will lead complex cost optimization programs from diagnostic through implementation and benefits realization. You will establish defensible cost baselines, quantify opportunities, translate recommendations into executable initiatives, and build the governance required to ensure savings reach the income statement and cash flow. You will also develop our people, expand client relationships, and strengthen West Monroe's cost optimization and value creation capabilities.

What you’ll do

Client Delivery

• Lead end-to-end cost optimization and value creation engagements, including rapid diagnostics, opportunity validation, initiative design, implementation support, and benefits realization.
• Establish defensible cost baselines across labor, third-party spend, technology, facilities, and other operating expenses using general ledger, payroll, procurement, vendor, organizational, and operational data.
• Identify and quantify opportunities across workforce productivity, spans and layers, organizational simplification, shared services, outsourcing, process standardization, automation and AI, strategic sourcing, application rationalization, real estate, and discretionary spending.
• Distinguish sustainable structural savings from temporary reductions or timing shifts, and develop models that show gross and net savings, one-time costs, cash impact, recurring EBITDA improvement, stranded costs, and reinvestment.
• Translate opportunities into executable initiatives with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, decision rights, risks, and implementation requirements.
• Design transformation governance and benefits tracking that reconciles approved initiatives to the budget, forecast, income statement, cash flow, and management reporting.
• Connect cost optimization to broader finance transformation, transaction, operating model, planning, reporting, data, automation, control, and performance management priorities.
• Own engagement delivery across scope, budget, profitability, staffing, risk, quality, and client satisfaction while serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs, business leaders, and private equity operating partners.
• Apply AI, advanced analytics, process mining, and data visualization to accelerate analysis and improve outcomes while validating outputs and managing control, confidentiality, and business risk.

Business Development and client growth

• Build and expand executive relationships with CFOs, finance leaders, transformation executives, business unit le

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West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
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