Senior Strategy Consultant, Xero
$128.7-176.9k
Cloud-based accounting software
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based accounting software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$128.7-176.9k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills with experience building complex models
- Strong analytical background with track record of analysing data from various sources into reports, analyse trends and make fact-based recommendations
- Strong teamwork and cross-functional team influencing skills
- Experience and proficiency in meeting and presenting to senior staff
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficient in MS Office and/or G-suite and other analytical tools (experience with large multi-relational data sets and SQL is a plus)
- Management of customer research (online and in person), analysing results and developing key insights
- Team-oriented, self-motivated, success-driven, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude
- Minimum 2yrs+ strategy consulting experience
- Bachelor or higher degree
- Preferred: Familiarity with SaaS business models, sales and marketing
What the job involves
- As a Senior Strategy Consultant, you will be part of the Global strategy team responsible for influencing the long term direction of Xero and driving key strategic projects across the businesses
- You’ll execute and support a broad range of global strategic projects for Xero including market research, competitive intelligence, and understanding customer needs and trends
- Conduct research and analysis across market, competitors, customer and industries
- Create detailed competitor, market and customer segmentation models
- Build financial models to perform quantitative analysis to help answer our most important strategic questions
- Support end-to-end delivery of projects: identifying and structuring problems, analysing root causes, developing solutions, communicating project results, and getting buy-in for change
- Work closely with business experts across product, sales, and marketing teams
- Conduct strategic projects evaluating the performance of current business operations and recommend strategies and tactics to achieve business goals
- Create and deliver high-quality presentations to senior executives
- Support internal and external communications, including CEO-level and investor presentations
- Success looks like:
- Delivery of projects that help us achieve our strategic goals
- High quality thinking and development of insights to support key executive decisions
- Timely execution of strategy projects and presentation to senior management
- Well regarded member of a high performing team
Our take
For a long time, high-quality financial services have been reserved for large-scale businesses. Xero solves this problem by giving small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers access to best-in-class finance and accounting solutions.
Xero is one of the largest companies of its kind, with its promise to save time and effort for small business owners - who often don’t have in-house accounting teams - capturing interest and allowing the company to scale. It has a strong rival in Intuit QuickBooks, which offers similar services, but competes by being most effective for growing startups, and having an incredibly simple user experience.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships, including the purchase of Instafile in 2018, have consolidated Xero’s market share. The company continues to add new integrations, such as with Vehocheck Workshop Manager, and the 2023 launched Beautiful Business Fund that will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Top-spec MacBook or HP Z-book
- Employee Share Plan (own a part of Xero!)
- 23 days holiday plus Bank Holidays (plus an extra 3 days over the Christmas period!)
- 10 days Wellbeing Leave (for sickness, emergencies and taking a mental health break)
- Company Pension Scheme (matched contributions up to 4.5%)
- A range of wellbeing initiatives
- Remote and Flexible Working
Company HQ
Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington
Leadership
Rod Drury
(Founder)Previously Consultant at EY, Founder of Glazier System. Was CEO of AfterMail and Director at TradeMe. Also founded Pacific Fibre and was Director at NZX.
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