Chicago Business Performance Improvement Consultant - 2025

at Robert Half in CHICAGO, Illinois, United States

Job Description

JOB REQUISITION

Chicago Business Performance Improvement Consultant – 2025

LOCATION

CHICAGO

ADDITIONAL LOCATION

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are You Ready to Live Something Different with Protiviti?

The Protiviti career provides an opportunity to learn, impact, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.? We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. By teaming with our clients, we solve the business challenges a dynamic world presents and discover and implement innovative business solutions. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values. Imagining our work as a journey, integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Are you inspired to make a difference?

You’ve come to the right place.

Business Performance Improvement consultants work with Protiviti’s clients, who are typically among the world’s leading companies. As a consultant, you collaborate with the team to deliver client solutions for complex business problems these organizations face. Experience tells us that our future leaders need to be both knowledgeable and deep in an area of expertise but also versatile, having a broad range of capabilities and skill sets to solve today’s complex business problems. That’s why we focus on developing consultants across our business, so you gain experience in different industries, grow your technical capabilities, and gain leadership qualities that will ensure your future success.

Our culture is grounded in empowerment, teamwork, and problem-solving. At all career levels, we encourage innovation and seek your ideas and insights. Our people care about one another; they coach, guide, and help each team member to be their very best.

When you join our team, you will participate in Passport to Protiviti, our award-winning onboarding program. You will also attend The Consulting Challenge, an experiential learning course that will help you transition successfully into your role as a consultant. As a consultant, you will be a part of the Foundations experience, an innovative approach to equip our consultants with the knowledge, skills, technical aptitude, and coaching to become our firms’ future leaders. This Foundations experience will enable you to learn from diverse project experiences while guiding your skill development, preparing you for the next step in your career journey.

Business Performance Improvement Consultants will experience a variety of projects. Each project experience is designed to fuel your curiosity, uncover hidden strengths, and, most importantly, prepare you for the next career level. Consultants learn from the best management team to develop an understanding of business processes and build technical skills in general risk areas. Consultants compile and analyze data and document findings through client engagements. Through interaction with client and project team personnel, consultants develop professional relationships that contribute to exceptional client service. A successful consultant learns effective time and task management, takes ownership of assignments, and accepts responsibility for team results.

With each project, you receive hands-on training in a nurturing environment and interact with leaders across our practice. Talent Managers will partner with you to line up specific project experiences that support your career goals, your skills, and the needs of the business. A network of advisors will help you navigate challenges and celebrate milestones. There will be many opportunities to join committees, participate in employee network groups, enjoy social, civic, and networking activities to aid in building meaningful relationships across the firm and in the community.

+ Finance Performance Management: Provides custom solutions to help finance leaders address their current challenges and explore opportunities for continuous growth, delivering innovative solutions and supporting finance as a forward-thinking, strategic partner to the business. At the core, our methodology aligns people, processes, and technology to drive efficiency, productivity, and transformation, enabling change and creating value for the entire organization.

+ Financial Reporting & Remediation Compliance: Helps companies reduce their risk of non-compliance while limiting exposure to financial restatements and other costly non-routine situations. Our professionals provide the critical functional and project management expertise necessary to cost-effectively prepare for and manage non-routine situations such as restatements, mergers, and IPOs. Protiviti’s team proactively monitors new accounting rules, alerts clients to changing requirements, and assists with addressing complex accounting or reporting challenges

+ People & Change: Our professionals help companies with the people, talent, and skills components of their business. We assist organizations in developing differentiated employee experiences to better attract, retain, and engage talent. We also help organizations enable sustained behavior changes to support large-scale initiatives.

+ Supply Chain & Operations: Protiviti’s supply chain and operations experts work closely with key stakeholders to deliver industry-leading practices, drive innovation, and tailor business solutions that reduce risk and cost to improve outcomes for our customers.

Meaningful onboarding. Impactful training. Foundational learning. These experiences define the Protiviti Career – a career that enables you to thrive in work and life.

QUALIFICATIONS

+ Degree: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Project Management, Supply Chain, or other business majors)

+ Visa Status: All applicants applying for U.S. job openings need authorization to work in the United States for Protiviti without sponsorship now or in the future

+ Technical Skills Desired:

+ Advanced verbal and written communication skills, including documentation of findings and recommendations

+ Ability to apply critical thinking skills and innovation to client engagements across various industries

+ A foundation in accounting and finance processes and objectives

+ Experience in tools such as Microsoft Office (particularly Project, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and Tableau)

WHAT MAKES YOU SUCCESSFUL

+ Strong academic background

+ Working in teams, as well as independently

+ Being creative and analytical

+ Passionate about evaluating, synthesizing, organizing, and interpreting data and information

+ Possessing excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills

+ Ability to self-motivate and take responsibility for personal growth and development

+ Desiring to learn and a receptiveness to feedback and mentoring

+ Drive towards obtaining professional certifications

OUR HYBRID WORKPLACE

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Apply at www.protiviti.com/careers.

Note: Students may apply for only one location or solution. Duplicate applications will not be accepted.

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