Finance Consulting Senior Manager
Accenture
Finance Consulting Senior Manager
Job Description
We are:
CFO & Enterprise Value, and we give finance leaders the advice, insights, and support that they need. Value isn’t just about maintenance. It’s about zeroing in on smart, sustainable ways to improve your organization, transform the role of finance, and implementing the right digital tools and processes to keep everything on track. We’ve got the deep public sector industry experience, the functional insights, the data power, and the digital tech leadership to help our clients make important changes. Whether we’re breaking down meaningful analytics, designing the perfect finance platforms, automating processes, or building from current risk and compliance models to get ready for the future, we solve our clients’ toughest problems. Visit us here to find out more about CFO-Enterprise Value.
You are:
A leader in digital finance with an eye for problem-solving. The more complex the challenge, the better. You’re quick to see solutions where others see obstacles, which is why clients count on you for sound financial counsel. By developing solutions that improve operational efficiency, you and your team are ready to tackle the challenges clients face today and those waiting around the corner. You’re also passionate about modernizing and transforming finance, working with leaders and stakeholders to bring new technology solutions to address their needs. Finally, you want to build a team and our presence in the Canadian Insurance space, helping grow Accenture’s impact.
The work:
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Help clients start the process of modernizing their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set strategy and goals, prioritizing initiatives, and building out a roadmap for the finance transformation journey.
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Support the growth of our Insurance focused CFO/EV consulting team by strengthening relationships with CFOs and senior finance personnel, finding, and developing top talent, and shaping/delivering business development opportunities.
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Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership, bringing deep finance consulting experience to address the needs of our clients.
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Provide the CFO with the right data to drive value and improve engagement, bringing the latest in productivity, performance management, and reporting. Oversee clients’ digital transformations.
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Create strategies and blueprints that use intelligent automation and machine learning to improve operations and refine processes (procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, record-to-report).
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Manage engagement risk, project economics, deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in – from identifying, shaping, responding to, and delivering opportunities, you’ll work to build our CFO/EV team.
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Encourage innovation from team members; support their ideas and career goals.
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Stay on top of current regulations, trends, and technologies influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem, with a specific focus on the federal public sector.
Qualifications
Here’s what you need:
Minimum 8 years of finance and/or management consulting experience with a specific focus on finance transformation.
Minimum 8 years’ experience with finance functions (analytics, forecasting, core finance), including operating models, supporting organization structures, and process best practices.
Minimum 5 years working with Canadian organizations in Energy, Finance / Insurance and Consumer Packaged Goods/Retail.
Minimum 5 years of experience leading projects, streams, and/or teams of 6 - 10 resources
Bachelor's degree
Must be willing to travel
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Bonus points if:
You’re a pro when it comes to engagement – plus business, practice, and people development.
You’ve designed finance, accounting, planning, forecasting, or reporting solutions
You’ve worked with these FinTech solutions: from visualization (eg. Tableau, Power BI), to data wrangling (Lumel, Python)
You’re comfortable with ERP technology and know your way around SAP, Oracle, Workday.
You’ve got an MBA and/or CPA after your name or another type of advanced degree.
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