Grants Program Consultant

Our Deloitte Finance Transformation team practices to help chief financial officers, controllers, and finance teams define and execute their finance and global business services agendas and strategies. You will work with leading-class teams and solutions, helping clients navigate challenging environments, market uncertainty, technology development, and regulatory considerations to unlock value. Your work may span strategy, operations, process design, and technology as we partner with clients to transform finance.

Work You’ll Do

As a Consultant, Grants Lifecycle Management on the Business Finance team, you will be responsible for:

• Support the engagement team in evaluating business process, financial, and technology risks.
• Conduct research, analyze data, and develop reports and materials to help define client issues and recommendations.
• Participate in operational and risk assessments, including the evaluation of performance measures and indicators.
• Assist with process improvement efforts, including process modeling, documentation, and current-state and future-state analysis.
• Contribute to benchmarking, regulatory risk management, and other finance transformation activities that support client program objectives.

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

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Business Finance offering enables finance to drive strategic value through transformation and synchronization of planning, costing, budgeting and forecasting across finance and other functions. Using advanced, scalable data and tech platforms, we also generate actionable insights and analytics, streamline decision making and enable data driven profitable growth. Manages risk and opportunities associated with diverse and complex grant programs through end-to-end grants management solutions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• 2+ years of professional consulting or client-facing experience
• 2+ years supporting ERP implementation projects, technology transformation initiatives, data analytics initiatives, or business process improvement efforts.
• 2+ years experience working with advanced Excel functions, PowerPoint or AI-enabled tools
• Ability to work onsite full time in Omaha and travel regularly to client locations in Lincoln, Nebraska

Preferred: 

• Experience with grants management or grants lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting finance transformation, budgeting, financial reporting, accounting operations, program finance.
• PMP or other consulting/project management certifications.
• Familiarity with reporting, business intelligence, EPM, or ERP platforms.