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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.\nTHE ROLE\nYou 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.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nLead delivery of AI and data readiness assessments end to end: scoping, maturity scoring, findings synthesis, roadmap, and business case.\nOriginate and shape opportunities with CFGI account teams across the firm's product lines; carry personal revenue and sold-work accountability.\nOwn C-suite and board-level readouts; present and defend findings with CFOs, CIOs, audit committees, and sponsors.\nDesign, version, and continuously improve the practice's assessment instruments and delivery method.\nBuild and lead the Advisory Pod: hire, coach, and quality-assure consultant delivery as the team scales.\nPartner with the Solutions Architecture and Transformation Management Office leaders to convert diagnostic findings into delivery and program engagements.\nRepresent the practice externally through publications, speaking, and client roundtables.\nWHAT YOU MUST HAVE\n12+ years in management consulting or advisory, with substantial transformation or Office of the CFO experience.\nA demonstrated record of originating, shaping, and selling advisory work, not only delivering it.\nWHAT SETS YOU APART\nPersonally led ten or more assessment, operating model, or strategy engagements.\nDeep working fluency in the enterprise AI landscape: large language models, agentic systems, build-versus-buy economics, adoption and change dynamics.\nC-suite workshop design and facilitation.\nPrivate equity deal-team or portfolio company exposure.\nPrior experience building a practice, service line, or offering from an early stage.\nNICE TO HAVE\nPublished eminence: white papers, conference talks, board-education content.\nWHO THRIVES HERE\nExceptional structured communication in the Pyramid Principle tradition; 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