Finance & Performance Management Shared Services Consulting Manager

Description

 

Organization:   Management Consulting

 

Location:         Location Negotiable

 

Accenture is one of the leading providers of management consulting services worldwide with more than 15,000 consultants in 49 countries. Our management consultants create, design and build new business models and help our clients integrate and operate them.  You'll have the opportunity to turn theory into practice and shape strategies right through from inception to execution. How?  By acting as a trusted advisor in identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing/restructuring critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates, in order to help them become a high-performance business.  Our suite of services deliver tangible business outcomes for our clients and are built on both industry and business expertise.

 

Join the Accenture Finance & Performance Management team and you will play a central role in developing innovative business solutions that help CFO clients improve operational efficiency and transform their finance function into a world class organization. As a Finance & Performance Management business consultant, you will support clients with capabilities in the areas of Corporate Finance, Finance Operations, Risk Management and Enterprise Performance Management to help them achieve high performance.

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

  • Directly supervise or coordinate the work of others on a small/medium sized team
  • Prioritize and oversee activities of others to meet deadlines and quality standards
  • Develop detailed work plans, direct project teams, deliver status, and manage to budget
  • Coach junior team members and foster an active learning environment.  Provide advice on procedures/work methods to colleagues
  • Exhibit working knowledge of familiar shared services functional areas by calling on previous job experience and training, and practical insight into unfamiliar functional areas
  • Be a self-motivated, enthusiastic team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills, well-versed in finance and accounting terms, latest industry trends, and applicable external factors
  • Participate in shared services business development activities
  • Provide leading practice finance and accounting transaction processing analysis and design knowledge
  • Develop governance and services management framework
  • Understand Regulatory Compliance including Sarbanes-Oxley, IFS, Basel II
  • Guide team through problem definition, issue identification and work plan development using problem solving principles and past experience
  • Ability to meet travel requirements, 80 to 100%

 

Qualifications

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 8+ years of experience in Finance and accounting back-office operations, i.e., accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, asset management, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, etc.
  • 5+ year experience around moving decentralized finance and accounting operations to shared services
  • 2+ years Design, development and implementation of at least 2 complete life cycle finance and accounting shared services centers in the role of team lead over one or more of the work streams, or as a hands-on project manager
  • 4+ years working within an ERP environment
  • Minimum of 2 years of managing financial process projects

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

  • CPA, CFA, CA, MBA, CMA or experience as an accountant
  • Direct experience in creating business change using ERP Financials
  • ERP Financials configuration, conversion or detailed process design

 

Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results.

 

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development.  You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to continue building your career.

 

Its home page is www.accenture.com .

 

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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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