Senior Consultant

Date: 23 Sept 2025

Location:

Melbourne, VIC, AU Brisbane, QLD, AU Perth, WA, AU Sydney, NSW, AU

Department: Enabling Areas

Description:

Job Requisition ID: 39493

Senior Consultant | Engagement Control and Operate Specialists

Choice and flexibility on where, when and how you work

Mentoring programs – receive support and coaching to progress your career

Learn from the best in the business

At Deloitte, we offer a unique and exceptional career experience to inspire and empower talents like you to make an impact that matters for our clients, people, and community. Deloitte offers you a highly inclusive, collaborative workplace and unrivalled opportunities to realise your full potential. We are always looking for people with the relentless energy to push themselves further, and to find new avenues and unique ways to reach our shared goals.

We are open to candidates based in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

What will your typical day look like?

The Engagement Control and Operate Specialists (ECOS) team is responsible for supporting and coordinating the ECOS team to ensure the provision of sound engagement financial control services. This role requires working with stakeholders to continuously assist in improvement of practices and support a high performing team.

Your specific responsibilities as an ECOS team member include, but are not limited to the following:

Monitor, maintain and analyse budgets, forecasts and actuals for multiple engagements

Conduct detailed financial analysis to identify trends, variances, and areas for improvement

Provide weekly engagement financial status reports to relevant engagement leads and their team

Own engagement trackers and act as the primary point of contact for finance-related engagement queries

Manage the end-to-end financial management procedures relating to all aspects of the engagement lifecycle Provide financial inputs to change requests for the engagement

Reconcile engagement tracking tool and SWIFT regularly

Analyse and identify causes and consequences in engagement financials, and implement corrective actions as needed

Engage with, educate, and influence engagement leadership, providing advice on emerging engagement issues, and present recommendations to support project delivery

Guide engagement teams by highlighting the broader impact of key engagement financial decisions

Identify and assist in implementing improvements to enhance financial controls and reporting accuracy.

Ensure compliance with internal financial policies and external regulatory requirements

About the team

The Engagement Financial Operations (EFO) team provides a comprehensive firm-wide engagement support service to facilitate good engagement health, hygiene, and financial management across all engagements and client accounts. The EFO support Partners and engagement teams with engagement financial management, whilst providing insights relating to engagement financial risk and impacts on engagement financial performance.

The Engagement Control and Operate Specialists (ECOS) team sits under EFO in the National Finance Business Unit and whose purpose is to safeguard the financial integrity of the firm's largest and most complex engagements and client accounts.

Enough about us, let's talk about you.

You may have all or some of the following skills / experiences:

Exceptional business finance acumen

General knowledge in Finance and Project Management

Strong background in delivering finance-related advice and operational support to large and diverse programs

Prior experience in engaging with other teams and communicating with senior stakeholders

Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

Proficiency in financial software and tools (e.g., SAP, Cognos, Anaplan, ServiceNow, Salesforce and Excel)

High attention to detail and accuracy

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We're always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone's perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We support flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.