Steve Deberge Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Led broader Firm Functions space to broaden and align support of consultants through both periods of growth and resilience.
• Created and collaborated with functional leaders to manage growth to ~70% of Firm growth by creating a scaling model based on performance ratios.
• Partnered with technology ecosystem to align resources with top priorities of the Firm.
• Drove accountability within business units to achieve and implement efficiencies promised with technology investments.
• Created a new process for technology funding, aimed to increase accountability and ROI.
• Collaborated senior leaders on assessing the impact of a reduced operating model for various shared services, including how it would impact consultant population and client engagements.

Chicago, Illinois

• Finance sponsor for pilot and broad adoption of digital transformation, including SAP implementation, digital reporting tools, standardization and efficiencies in performance management.
• Implemented new evaluation criteria focused on Finance role evolution with digital transformation.
• Created best in class annual review process that rolled out globally across Finance function.
• Created an Advanced Analytics group and hired first data scientist to implement predictive analytics and machine learning.
• Developed rotational structure and partnered with other Finance functions (i.e. Treasury, Tax) to pilot.

• Helped identify problem issues and collaborated with Finance and other functions on solutions to balance short and long-term growth.
• Led annual planning process which included counseling the CFO on the overall growth of the Firm, balance of resources across 6 regions, and 20 industries/functions.
• Led transformation of the planning process as sponsor for design, implementation, testing and adoption of global, cloud-based planning solution (Anaplan) for 400+ users across 40 countries, 15 planning units.
• Provided analysis on break-even point for investments in strategic locations with long-term forecasting models
• Fostered the growth and deployment of diverse profiles as they grew to >20% of consulting population.
• Performed deep-dive analysis and recommendations to reduce seasonal spending.

• Worked closely with senior leadership on restructuring Operations practice to scale globally as growth expanded globally across variety of diverse profiles
• Modeled the growth scenarios for diverse profiles, particularly Implementation consultants, to identify opportunities to grow and align on pricing model
• Designed and implemented dashboards to create more transparency across partnership to identify staffing opportunities and increase profitability
• Clean-sheet exercise across all service lines to identify drivers and ratios for optimal deployment across knowledge development, client development and operational expenses
• Led planning cycle for 1,000+ consultants and opex over $80m, including analysis on global and service line allocation of consultant growth

• Worked closely with senior leadership on restructuring Operations practice to scale globally as growth expanded globally across variety of diverse profiles.
• Led planning process for MW office, working closely with senior leaders to identify controllable opex costs.
• Analysis of spend across locations to tie consultant satisfaction scores to connectivity spend.
• Teamed with Recruiting function to analyze and develop new interview model, which led to reduction in travel costs and reduced time consultants spent running interviews.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy & Management, Marketing, Managerial Analytics

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Finance; Economics

Bachelors in Finance and Economics