Performance & Cost Improvement Consultant

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

Performance & Cost Improvement (P&CI), within Deloitte's Performance Improvement & Restructuring (PI&R) Offering, helps clients unlock value, improve margins, and generate the capital needed to fund strategic priorities. In this role, you will support corporate and private equity clients through cost reduction, performance improvement, and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Recruiting for this role ends on 06/24/2026.

Work You'll Do
As a Consultant on the P&CI team, you will serve as trusted advisor to corporate and private equity clients through cost, margin, and performance improvement initiatives across a range of industries. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Work with senior executives to develop, define, and execute cost/growth reduction strategies with Fortune 500 companies
• Synthesize overall strategy by analyzing financial, operational, and business data to identify value creation, margin improvement, and cost reduction opportunities
• Develop business cases, pricing analyses, and financial models to evaluate strategic options and quantify impact

• Function as integrators between business needs and technology solutions

• Assess business processes, operating models, and performance drivers to support recommendations for operational improvement and transformation
• Prepare client-ready deliverables and present findings, recommendations, and analyses to engagement teams and client stakeholders
• Support day-to-day client delivery, stakeholder coordination, and proposal development for corporate and private equity engagements

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

PI&R defines and leads enterprise Board and C-Suite agendas for non-distressed, underperforming, and distressed clients to improve margins, operational and financial performance, navigate financial difficulties, and improve cashflow to fund critical transformations.

Within PI&R, the Performance & Cost Improvement team helps clients address financial pressure, improve operating performance, and stabilize business results. The team supports initiatives such as cost reduction, margin improvement, working capital and liquidity improvement, post-merger integration and synergy capture, operating model transformation, business model transformation, and analytics-enabled performance improvement.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree

• 2+ years of experience in management consulting working in operations improvement, transformation, M&A integration, or business process reengineering around global cost reduction or development of global growth strategies

• 2+ years of experience in financial analysis using data from multiple sources to identify value creation opportunities
• 2+ years of experience developing models using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Tableau, or similar tools
• 1+ years of experience supporting mergers and acquisitions transactions, integration, or service delivery
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Advanced degree
• Experience serving corporate or private equity clients
• Experience developing business cases, pricing analyses, or complex financial analyses
• Experience creating executive-level presentations and client deliverables using Microsoft PowerPoint
• Experience with data visualization or analytics tools such as Tableau
• Experience supporting proposal development

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $95,600 to $188,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Deloitte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the recruiting process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at [email protected]