Senior Strategy Consultant

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

As a Senior Strategy Consultant, you will be part of the Global strategy team responsible for influencing the long term direction of Xero and driving key strategic projects across the businesses. You’ll execute and support a broad range of global strategic projects for Xero including market research, competitive intelligence, and understanding customer needs and trends.

What you'll do

• Conduct research and analysis across market, competitors, customer and industries
• Create detailed competitor, market and customer segmentation models
• Build financial models to perform quantitative analysis to help answer our most important strategic questions
• Support end-to-end delivery of projects: identifying and structuring problems, analysing root causes, developing solutions, communicating project results, and getting buy-in for change
• Work closely with business experts across product, sales, and marketing teams
• Conduct strategic projects evaluating the performance of current business operations and recommend strategies and tactics to achieve business goals
• Create and deliver high-quality presentations to senior executives
• Support internal and external communications, including CEO-level and investor presentations

What you'll bring with you

• Minimum 2yrs+ strategy consulting experience
• Bachelor or higher degree
• Preferred: Familiarity with SaaS business models, sales and marketing
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with experience building complex models
• Strong analytical background with track record of analysing data from various sources into reports, analyse trends and make fact-based recommendations
• Strong teamwork and cross-functional team influencing skills
• Experience and proficiency in meeting and presenting to senior staff
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office and/or G-suite and other analytical tools (experience with large multi-relational data sets and SQL is a plus

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.