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Accenture Finance Transformation Sr. Manager in Chicago, Illinois

We are:CFO & Enterprise Value, and we partner with Finance executives to drive value across the enterprise. As Finance leaders move into business partner roles, they need processes, technology and people to help drive efficiencies, manage costs, improve profitability, and identify new areas of opportunity. We’ve got the deep industry experience, functional proficiency, insightful analytics, and the digital technology leadership to help our clients reinvent themselves. Whether we are improving processes, transforming the digital core, or harnessing the power of GenAI, we solve our clients’ toughest problems. Visit us here to find out more about CFO-Enterprise Value. (https://www.accenture.com/it-it/services/cfo-and-enterprise-value-index)

You are: A leader in digital finance with a strong curiosity for understanding clients' businesses and a client-centric approach. You excel at solving complex CFO problems by aligning financial strategies with overall business goals. Your expertise in finance functions, combined with your ability to develop innovative solutions, and your curiosity for how your clients business works and can grow makes you a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

The work:

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

  • Provide the CFO 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 for 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 in 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

Here's what you need:

  • 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.

Bonus points if:

  • 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 technology and know your way around SAP, Oracle, Workday 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.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York or Washington as set forth below. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $302,400

Colorado $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200

Illinois $122,700 to $261,300

Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300

Maryland $122,700 to $241,900

New York $122,700 to $302,400

Washington $141,100 to $278,200

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