Principal Strategic Optimization Consultant

The Platform Adoption Services Principal partners with customers to integrate strategy, process, and technology while providing thought leadership to optimize the accounting & finance function. Through the Transformation Framework, professional optimization consulting helps customers 1) understand their end game 2) understand the keys to a successful journey 3) envision end-to-end process optimization with BlackLine 4) organize their journey based on the nine foundational accounting process categorizes 5) assess their current state and develop a roadmap for process optimization 6) optimize processes using the 7 steps to process optimization. Consultants partner with Customers to design and drive a digital transformation roadmap leveraging BlackLine. The Role partners with Account Managers to develop a plan to deploy the key elements of the Transformation Framework to advance the customers’ digital transformation journey. The Role challenges the customer’s processes and designs innovative solutions to advance the customers’ digital transformation journey, increasing adoption and expansion of BlackLine, driving consulting services revenues, preventing attrition and churn, and continually enriching the customer experience. The Role leverages their BlackLine expertise, their accounting, internal controls, and process optimization expertise, as well as their professional judgment to provide leading practice optimization strategies, insights, and deliverables. These deliverables include original, innovative solutions for complex customer challenges, consulting services, process redesign and transformation, solution architecture specific to the customers’ challenges, one to many thought leadership, Executive touch points and strategy sessions, and recommendations to accelerate customer’s accounting innovation journey. Most importantly, the Role must be confident in the unknown as many customers require assistance in understanding their own processes before considering optimization with BlackLine. All facets of the role are designed to drive customers’ successful digital transformation journey.