Senior Transformation & Performance Strategy Consultant

Guidehouse

Financial Management Consultant focusing on optimizing financial management practices in Defense and National Security sectors. Leading strategic initiatives and collaborating with clients for enhanced financial efficiency.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Our Financial Management professionals help our clients in Defense and National Security optimize all elements of their financial management structure by transforming business processes, enhancing operational efficiency, improving transparency and performance management, promoting change management, and complying with Federal laws and regulations.
Identify opportunities to streamline financial tools, templates, and workflows, and apply technology enabled improvements that enhance quality, efficiency, and consistency across financial management activities.
Conduct research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with a team to formulate and recommend solutions.
Conduct comprehensive assessments of current state processes, including Visio, process maps, and procedures, to identify pain points and improvement opportunities.
Facilitate discussions with senior executives and synthesize their input into clear, actionable insights.
Develop strategic missions, visions, goals, objectives, and tracking metrics across Defense and National Security organizations to strengthen transparency, reporting quality, and decision making.
Establish and operationalize comprehensive governance models and communication plans that clearly define roles and responsibilities, set structured decision making and engagement cadences, and support seamless integration across stakeholders.
Collaborate with senior team members to embed financial management standards and quality controls into solution design, confirming alignment with federal financial policy, audit readiness requirements, and operational best practices.
Standardize and update organizational charts and report templates to streamline professional document creation and governance.
Lead implementation of transformative initiatives by partnering with team members and senior stakeholders to modernize financial management processes through innovative, user centered solutions.
Communicate the implementation of Microsoft 365 Power Platform tools and facilitate stakeholder engagement sessions to gather iterative feedback, confirm alignment, and support change adoption.
Support creation and execution of detailed project plans, confirming realistic timelines, clear communication, and ongoing risk and dependency monitoring to maintain project momentum.
Provide routine project updates to senior level executive clients, ensuring shared understanding of progress, decisions, risks, and next steps.
Deliver a visual identity by refreshing SharePoint sites, emblems, messaging guidelines, and Teams backgrounds with improved content layouts, navigation, and branding.
Craft executive ready messaging, briefings, talking points, and presentations.
Develop and deliver comprehensive, role based training materials (videos, job aids, and quick reference guides) that build capability, reinforce key behaviors, and enhance stakeholder buy-in throughout implementation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Bachelor’s degree
THREE (3) years related experience related to communications, change management, financial transformation, organizational transformation or strategy.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial managementprocess mappingchange managementproject planningdata analysistraining developmentquality controlgovernance modelsstrategic planningtechnology enabled improvements

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationleadershipproblem solvingstakeholder engagementanalytical thinkingadaptabilityexecutive communicationteamworkfacilitation

Certifications

Federal or DoD Public Trust