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Accenture · 2 months ago

Finance Transformation Senior Manager

Arlington, 800 N Glebe, AFS

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$132K/yr - $302K/yr

8+ years exp

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core. They are seeking a Finance Transformation Senior Manager to help clients modernize their finance functions and drive efficiencies while aligning financial strategies with business goals.

Business Information SystemsConstructionConsultingInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyInfrastructureManagement ConsultingOutsourcing

No H1B

Responsibilities

Help clients modernize their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes

Provide the CFO and their teams with the right data and insights to create a compelling change narrative and drive shareholder value

Understand the client’s challenges and use knowledge of related leading practices, to provide solutions to complex business problems

Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor for other Accenture projects and proposals based on your area of expertise

Manage engagement risk, project economics, deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in

Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership

Encourage innovation from team members; support their ideas and career goals

Create strategies and blueprints that use advanced operating models, processes, and emerging technologies to improve operations and re-define how work gets done

Oversee clients digital transformations, help them drive efficiency, effectiveness, experience , and growth: identify needed skillsets, data, operating models, process automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technology (i.e. (FinTech apps, AI/ML/GenAI, etc)

Find modern technology and data solutions for clients and share best practices across the industry

Help Grow the practice by participating and be accountable for driving key business development activities and cycles

Stay on top of current trends, technologies, and regulations influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem

Drive incremental sales by leading and assembling the requisite teams to respond to proposals

Qualification

Finance transformationEngagement managementData analyticsEmerging technologiesFinance technology solutionsClient-centric approachCommunication skillsProblem solvingTeam leadership

Required

Minimum 8 years of finance and/or accounting with management consulting experience

Significant engagement management as well as business, practice, and people development

Demonstrated curiosity for knowing everything about a client's industry and business and translating that into the right-fit finance and/or enterprise solutions to best accomplish overall business strategy and objectives

Demonstrated intellectual curiosity to understand emerging technologies and how they can create a better experience for Finance employees and create a better output for Finance stakeholders

Experience designing finance, accounting, planning, forecasting, reporting, data & analytic operating models across talent, process, data, and technology

Solid understanding of the Finance function, operating models, supporting organization structures, process best practices, and key interdependencies with non-finance stakeholders and other 3rd party interactions

Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with clients, document requirements, and articulate the value proposition and business case

Demonstrated ability to lead key solutioning and problem solving workshops with clients

Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with senior level (C suite) clients individually and as a member of an engagement team

Strong experience in one of the following industries: Banking, Insurance, Consumer Goods & Retail, Energy, Health, High-Tech Industrial, or Utilities

Bachelor's degree

Preferred

You have significant Finance transformation experience working across a number of Finance function areas

You've worked with or are conversant in Finance technology and data solutions across accounting, tax, treasury, planning, and reporting & analytics

You are familiar with emerging and modern technologies and tools (eg. Gen AI) and can describe them to the CFO in a simple and understandable way

You're comfortable with ERP/EPM technology platforms and know your way around SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, One Stream applications and understand the interdependencies across the rest of the finance and enterprise technology landscape

You've got an MBA or another type of advanced degree