Business Consultant Analyst

Job description / Role

Description

Our customer, a media company, is undertaking a 10-week AI transformation assessment led by Ai-Zen to define the strategic, financial, and operational foundations for becoming an AI-empowered media organisation.

The assessment will evaluate the media company’s current state, identify high-value AI use cases across departments, quantify the investment and ROI, and deliver a business and investment case supported by a prioritised implementation roadmap.

A multidisciplinary team — including business, financial, media, and technical experts — will collaborate with customer’s stakeholders to produce actionable insights, establish readiness for AI adoption, and guide the transition toward data-driven, automated, and scalable operations.

To lead the business case development and quantitative analysis for the AI transformation assessment, developing a comprehensive cost/investment model, ROI projections, and a fully quantified business and investment case that demonstrates the financial and strategic value of becoming an AI-empowered organisation. Ensure alignment with customer’s financial objectives.

Expected outcomes of this role

• A fully developed and validated business case quantifying the investment, cost savings, and ROI associated with customer’s AI transformation initiatives.
• A comprehensive business and investment case, integrating departmental inputs, automation benefits, and infrastructure costs into a unified financial framework.
• Clearly defined scenarios (conservative, base, ambitious) outlining alternative investment paths, payback periods, and financial risks.
• A set of executive dashboards and summaries presenting key financial insights, efficiency gains, and expected returns in a clear, decision-ready format.
• Documented assumptions, dependencies, and sensitivities to support transparent and evidence-based decision making.
• Integration of financial outputs into the final AI transformation roadmap, aligning funding priorities with business value and implementation feasibility.
• Presentation of the quantified ROI and value-creation potential to customer’s leadership and steering committee for approval of the next transformation phase.

Key duties & responsibilities

• Design and maintain complex business case and financial models capturing cost structures, effort estimates, productivity gains, and long-term ROI across multiple departments.
• Conduct baseline financial assessments of current operations, identifying cost inefficiencies and potential automation savings.
• Develop scenario projections (conservative, base, ambitious) that illustrate investment pathways, payback periods, and breakeven points.
• Quantify tangible and intangible benefits, including efficiency gains, risk reduction, workforce redeployment, and audience growth impact.
• Consolidate all quantitative findings into a robust and defensible business and investment case, supported by sensitivity and risk analyses.
• Partner with the AI project manager, business analysts, technical SMEs, and department heads to validate assumptions and align financial outputs with operational realities.
• Prepare executive-ready dashboards and summaries, translating analytical results into actionable insights for decision-makers.
• Support steering committee presentations by articulating key financial narratives, trade-offs, and recommendations.

Requirements

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in financial planning & analysis, corporate finance, and strategic investment analysis, preferably within media, technology-driven or transformation environments.
• Proven experience in business consulting.
• Proven track record of building complex financial and ROI models for large-scale programmes.
• Strong command of advanced financial modelling tools.
• Demonstrated ability to convert financial data into clear business insights and executive-level storytelling.
• Deep understanding of cost allocation, benefit realisation, and value-creation frameworks.
• Good to have understanding of the media industry value chain and a view on key AI use cases in media industry. Alternatively, experience in related industries identifying key AI use cases and prioritising these.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and explain financial concepts to non-finance audiences.

Desirable qualifications / skills

• Prior experience in media, SaaS, data analytics, or digital transformation initiatives is strongly preferred.
• Previous involvement in AI-related projects is a plus.
• Experience with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles).

Contractual duration

Short-term contract for a period of 10 weeks, not exceeding 40 working days.