Managing Director, AI Strategy & Readiness MANAGING DIRECTOR · ADVISORY POD LEAD · FOUNDING TEAM Practice: AI Services · Reports to: Head of AI Services · Location: Flexible across CFGI offices; travel as required ABOUT CFGI AND AI SERVICESCFGI is a leading advisory firm serving the Office of the CFO, with approximately 1,400 professionals across more than 30 offices in North America and Europe. CFGI is independent of audit and vendor relationships, advising CFOs, boards, and private equity sponsors without conflict. AI Services is CFGI's newest practice: a horizontal capability that helps clients assess AI and data readiness, stand up governance, and operationalize AI across the finance function and the enterprise. This is a founding-team seat with direct influence over how the practice is built.
THE ROLE:
You are the founding leader of the practice's advisory motion. You own the assessment portfolio end to end: selling, shaping, and delivering AI and data readiness diagnostics, maturity scoring, roadmaps, and business cases for CFOs, boards, and private equity sponsors. You are the senior voice in the room on AI strategy, and you build the team underneath you.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
Lead delivery of AI and data readiness assessments end to end: scoping, maturity scoring, findings synthesis, roadmap, and business case. Originate and shape opportunities with CFGI account teams across the firm's product lines; carry personal revenue and sold-work accountability. Own C-suite and board-level readouts; present and defend findings with CFOs, CIOs, audit committees, and sponsors. Design, version, and continuously improve the practice's assessment instruments and delivery method. Build and lead the Advisory Pod: hire, coach, and quality-assure consultant delivery as the team scales. Partner with the Solutions Architecture and Transformation Management Office leaders to convert diagnostic findings into delivery and program engagements. Represent the practice externally through publications, speaking, and client roundtables. WHAT YOU MUST HAVE12+ years in management consulting or advisory, with substantial transformation or Office of the CFO experience. A demonstrated record of originating, shaping, and selling advisory work, not only delivering it. WHAT SETS YOU APARTPersonally led ten or more assessment, operating model, or strategy engagements. Deep working fluency in the enterprise AI landscape: large language models, agentic systems, build-versus-buy economics, adoption and change dynamics. C-suite workshop design and facilitation. Private equity deal-team or portfolio company exposure. Prior experience building a practice, service line, or offering from an early stage.
NICE TO HAVE:
Published eminence: white papers, conference talks, board-education content. WHO THRIVES HEREExceptional structured communication in the Pyramid Principle tradition; executive-grade written product. HOW SUCCESS IS MEASURED, FIRST TWELVE MONTHSAssessment engagements sold and delivered at target margin. Conversion rate of assessments into follow-on delivery and program work. Advisory Pod hired, ramped, and delivering to quality standard. Assessment instruments versioned and adopted as the practice standard. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
