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Performance & Cost Improvement Consultant

Deloitte

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Compensation
$96–188K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Work Authorization
Not specified • Visa sponsorship

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Deloitte’s Performance & Cost Improvement team helps clients identify and implement cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities. The consultant analyzes financial and operational data, develops practical recommendations, supports transformation, and contributes to client implementation and proposals. The role requires management consulting and financial analysis experience, with work involving client collaboration and an average of one to two weekly co-location days.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Independent WorkTeam CollaborationWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationAttention to DetailRelationship BuildingProject LeadershipTask PrioritizationInterpersonal SkillsDeadline ManagementGuidanceOperations ImprovementOperating Model TransformationService Delivery Model TransformationNon-Labor OptimizationMargin ImprovementProcess ReengineeringCost ReductionFinancial AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft AccessVisual BasicTableauBusiness Case DevelopmentPricing AnalysisMicrosoft VisioProposal DevelopmentMentoring

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree4+ Years Management Consulting Experience4+ Years Financial Analysis Experience4+ Years Modeling ExperienceCorporate or Private Equity Client ExperienceDaily Commute to Assigned Office50% Travel

Full job description

Performance & Cost Improvement Consultant

Deloitte's Performance & Cost Improvement (P&CI) team helps clients reduce costs, improve margins, and strengthen cash flow. As a Performance & Cost Improvement Consultant, you will turn analysis into practical recommendations that support transformation.

Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.

Work you'll do

As a Performance & Cost Improvement Consultant on the P&CI team, you will be responsible for...

  • Analyze financial and operational data to identify cost, margin, and cash flow opportunities.

  • Support operations improvement, operating model transformation, non-labor optimization, and process redesign.

  • Build business cases, pricing analyses, and financial models.

  • Track workplans, milestones, and deliverables.

  • Prepare client materials, support implementation, and contribute to proposals and practice initiatives.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

  • Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team

  • Effective written and verbal communication skills

  • Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product

  • Ability to build and sustain professional relationships

  • Ability to lead projects or workstreams

  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

  • Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor

  • Ability to meet deadlines

  • Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The team

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C-suite agendas for non-distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins and operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cash flow to fund critical transformations.

The P&CI team helps clients identify, evaluate, and implement enterprise-wide cost reduction and margin improvement opportunities. The global practice includes more than 9,000 cost transformation practitioners, with experience across industries, deep sector knowledge, and industry-leading assets and accelerators.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of management consulting experience in operations improvement, operating or service delivery model transformation, non-labor optimization, margin improvement, or process reengineering to reduce costs.

  • 4+ years of financial analysis experience using multiple data sources to assess cost, margin, or cash flow opportunities.

  • 4+ years of experience developing models using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, or Tableau.

  • You must reside within a commutable distance of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required, without the need for overnight accommodations.

  • You can expect to co-locate on average 1-2 times a week with variations based on types of work/projects and client locations.

  • Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

  • Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred:

  • Advanced degree.

  • Experience serving corporate or private equity clients.

  • Experience developing business cases, pricing analyses, financial analyses, presentations, or client deliverables using Microsoft PowerPoint or Microsoft Visio.

  • Experience supporting proposal development, mentoring junior team members, or using Microsoft Excel and Tableau.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,600 to $188,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 3,503 open Management Consulting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$96–188K/yr
  • California median$128–294K/yr459 salary ranges
  • US median$123–270K/yr3,317 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $142K, is 27% below the California median midpoint ($194K) — in the lowest quarter of Management Consulting salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 479 open Management Consulting jobs in California and 3,503 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Management Consulting postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 3,425 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,960 of the 3,503 open Management Consulting jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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