Senior Manager, CFO Advisory

At Stout, we're dedicated to exceeding expectations in all we do - we call it Relentless Excellence . Both our client service and culture are second to none, stemming from our firmwide embrace of our core values: Positive and Team-Oriented, Accountable, Committed, Relationship-Focused, Super-Responsive, and being Great communicators. Sound like a place you can grow and succeed? Read on to learn more about an exciting opportunity to join our team. Stout's Accounting & Reporting Advisory practice is growing its Strategic Finance & FP&A team within its CFO Services group. This is a market-facing role for a senior professional who will develop client relationships, lead engagements, and work cross-functionally across Stout's broader finance transformation and transaction advisory platform. This role is well-suited for a professional services individual with industry FP&A experience that is eager to bring that operating experience into a consulting environment. Exposure to private equity-backed businesses, transaction diligence, and post-close integration are strongly preferred. Impact You'll Make: - Lead strategic FP&A engagements spanning budgeting and forecasting process design, driver-based financial modeling, long-range planning, and management reporting frameworks - with an emphasis on actionable decision support for CFOs and PE sponsors. - Develop and deliver performance visibility solutions for clients, including KPI/metric selection, management reporting design, and dashboard-based visualization tools. - Collaborate with broader finance transformation teams, advising clients across core business processes: Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (PTP), and Record-to-Report (RTR). - Support transaction-oriented engagements, including buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence, quality of earnings analysis, and pre-close FP&A readiness assessments. - Lead post-acquisition integration workstreams related to the finance function, including Day 1/Day 100 planning, IMO support, standalone reporting buildout, and FP&A process harmonization. - Lead or support carve-out engagements, including separation of FP&A functions, reporting structures, and shared services from parent entities. - Advise clients on interim FP&A leadership, providing hands-on support to fill capability gaps during periods of transition, transformation, or rapid growth. - Identify and implement data automation and analytics solutions that improve the speed and quality of financial reporting and forecasting processes. - Drive business development through client relationship management, proposal development, and thought leadership in strategic finance and the Office of the CFO. What You'll Do: FP&A Strategic Finance - Design and optimize end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for middle-market and PE-backed clients. - Build and review driver-based financial models, cash flow forecasts, ROI models, pricing and profitability analysis, and scenario/sensitivity frameworks. - Develop management reporting packages and KPI dashboards that translate financial results into business insights for CFOs, boards, and sponsors. - Provide point-in-time decision support including 13-week cash flow models, working capital analysis, and organizational design recommendations. - Support clients in an interim FP&A leadership capacity as needed. Finance Transformation & Corporate Finance Process Lead assessments and transformation initiatives across core finance processes: Order-to-Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (PTP), Record-to-Report (RTR), and FP&A. Identify operational inefficiencies and design scalable, te