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Business Consultant - Finance & Accounting -- Entry Level
Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)
Main location: United States, California, Los Angeles
Position ID:J0826-0294
Employment Type: Graduate
Position Description:
Are you interested in how organizations manage their finances and looking for opportunities to improve business processes through technology? Do you enjoy analyzing data, collaborating with clients and teams, and solving complex business challenges using modern financial systems and AI-enabled tools?
If so, CGI offers an environment where you can grow your skills and make an impact.
As an Early Career Business Consultant, you'll work alongside experienced consultants to help government and commercial clients improve their financial and business processes through technology. You'll gain hands-on experience analyzing business needs, supporting enterprise finance solutions, and helping clients modernize the way they manage budgeting, accounting, and financial operations.
Work Location
This position is based in the Los Angeles, California area and follows a hybrid work model, requiring time both onsite with clients and in the local CGI office, as project needs dictate.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
How You'll Make an Impact
• Learn your client's business, industry, financial operations, and organizational goals.
• Analyze business processes and gather requirements through stakeholder meetings, workshops, and process documentation.
• Assist in documenting business and functional requirements, user stories, process flows, and functional specifications.
• Support enterprise finance and budgeting solutions by helping configure, test, and validate system functionality.
• Help analyze financial business processes, including budgeting, forecasting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, vendor management, cost accounting, and financial reporting.
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams to design and implement business solutions that meet client needs.
• Support system testing activities, including unit testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), system integration testing (SIT), and regression testing.
• Assist in troubleshooting functional issues and supporting production environments.
• Create user documentation, training materials, and client-facing deliverables.
• Use data analysis tools such as Excel, SQL, Power BI, or Tableau to identify trends and support business recommendations.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve productivity by summarizing requirements, drafting documentation, generating user stories, identifying risks, and supporting analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes through automation and emerging technologies while applying responsible AI and data privacy principles.
• Communicate findings, recommendations, and project updates clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
What You'll Bring
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• 0-2 years of professional experience through internships, co-ops, research, or full-time employment.
• Preferred majors include Finance, Accounting, and Economics
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an interest in business process improvement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and client stakeholders.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to continuously learn new business processes and technologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel; exposure to SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or other data analysis tools is a plus.
• Exposure to ERP systems, financial systems, business analysis, AI tools, or automation technologies through coursework, internships, or projects is preferred but not required.
• Eligibility to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Let's talk about benefits
• Competitive base salary
• Comprehensive insurance options
• 401(k) with company match
• Share purchase plan with a company match
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave
• Up to 14 weeks of Maternity Leave with full pay
• 4-week Parental Leave for all non-birth parents
• Attorney-assisted will preparation
• Health savings account
• Disability, life, and accidental death insurance
• Pet insurance
• Work-life balance and flexibility
• Tuition assistance continuous learning opportunities
• Training, mentoring, and career development
• Partner assistance program
• Wellness program
The best version of you starts here
We're a global company of owners. Over 90,000 partners strong, we bring our diverse backgrounds and perspectives together to solve some of IT and business consulting's toughest problems for some of the world's best companies. Looking for a place that empowers you to explore your full potential and shape your own career? The scale and reach of our impact offer you just that. Join a team of great people, collaborate on meaningful work, and serve the communities you call home while you do it.
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set level, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $50,800 - $83,800/yr.
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