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Zayd Bushnaq

Senior Finance & Transformation Consultant

€1,400/day
Zurich, CH
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Zayd

Who am I:

Senior finance, operations, and transformation consultant based in Zurich, Switzerland. Former Senior Manager at Google and Manager at EY, with 15+ years delivering high-impact programs across APAC, AMER, and EMEA at Forture 500 companies. I combine the strategic depth of a Big Four consultant with the execution discipline of a global tech leader, and I treat every client engagement like it genuinely matters.

What I do best:

Finance:
- Finance Transformation
- GBS Setup & Shared Services
- SAP S/4HANA & ERP Advisory
- Program & Project Management
- Change Management
- Operational Excellence
- Process Automation
- AI Adoption in Finance
- Finance Advisory

Audits:
- Financial Audits
- Operational Audits
- Revenue Leak Detection & Recovery
- Compliance & Controls Audits
- Technology & Systems Audits
- Customer Experience Audits
- Scalability Assessments

Digital Marketing:
- SEO Strategy
- Website Development
- Google & Meta Advertising
- Digital Growth Advisory

By The Numbers:

$463M+ in documented financial impact · $5B+ in spend managed across APAC · 200+ person teams led · $55M+ recovered in a single year · 2,000+ person global agency currently operating across 4 countries

How I Work:

Available for project mandates, interim roles, and advisory retainers. Remote globally or on-site — fully willing to travel to client sites globally, when needed. Fluent in English and Arabic, making me particularly effective for clients across Europe and the Middle East.

If you need a senior consultant who delivers real outcomes and not just recommendations, let's talk.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Arabic

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Zurich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Pixel That Marketing
    Principal Consultant & CEO
    DIGITAL AND IT
    December 2025 - Today (6 months)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    – Manages a 2,000+ person global agency across Switzerland, UK, Bulgaria, and UAE, providing hands-on consulting, operational governance, and transformation leadership across international client portfolios.
    – Delivers finance, operational, and digital transformation advisory for enterprise clients across EMEA and MENA markets, managing multi-country compliance, vendor governance, and financial controls.
    SEO Webdesign Meta Ads Google AdWords Social media
  • Google
    Senior Manager, Product & Finance Operations
    TECH
    December 2021 - December 2025 (4 years)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    – Led GBS and operational transformation programs across Finance, Content, and HR functions at Google's Zurich headquarters, managing distributed cross-functional teams spanning Engineering, Product, Operations, and Finance across EMEA and global markets, and driving three major cross-organizational releases that achieved a 59% increase in centralization and 33% improvement in efficiency.

    – Directed the SAP ECC to S/4HANA platform modernization across global teams, owning all system architecture decisions, vendor management, data governance frameworks, and change management programs, while maintaining zero disruption to live operational systems handling billions in global transactions throughout the multi-year migration.
    Digital Transformation Project Management Finance sector Audit ERP
  • Google
    Regional Finance Manager, APAC
    TECH
    October 2019 - December 2021 (2 years and 2 months)
    Singapore
    – Held VP-equivalent regional finance and operations accountability across the entire APAC region on behalf of Google's global leadership, overseeing $5B+ in annual spend and more than one million payment transactions across multiple country subsidiaries, with full ownership of P&L management, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cross-border compliance obligations.

    – Led Google's full Oracle-to-SAP global ERP transformation across APAC, directing regional engineering and operations teams alongside third-party delivery partners from Accenture and IBM across multiple simultaneous go-live cycles, ensuring zero disruption to all of Google's payments, financial reporting, and operational systems throughout the entire multi-year program.
    Finance sector ERP Digital Transformation Project Management Audit

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Education

  • Bachelor of Business Administration
    George Washington University, School of Business
    Bachelor of Business Administration

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