Finance Operating Model Strategist - Consultant

Accenture • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

CFO & Enterprise Value partners 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 have deep industry experience, functional proficiency, insightful analytics, and digital technology leadership to help clients reinvent themselves. Whether improving processes, transforming the digital core, or harnessing the power of GenAI, we solve clients’ toughest problems.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of strategy consulting experience with a focus on designing and implementing Finance operating models
• Strategic mindset with a strong aptitude for connecting Finance vision to enterprise strategy.
• Exposure to working with AI, GenAI, machine learning, and automation and their current applications
• Functional expertise in Finance, including accounting, FP&A, reporting, and data & analytics—coupled with a strong understanding of Finance’s interdependencies across the enterprise
• Experience working with major enterprise transformations driven by technology implementations (ERP, EPM), cost take-out initiatives, and/or operating model changes
• Demonstrated ability to participate in engagements, working closely with clients, and cross-functional teams.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Experience in one of the following industries: Banking, Insurance, Consumer Goods & Retail, Energy, Health, High-Tech Industrial, or Utilities
• Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Economics, Finance, or Business Administration

Nice To Haves

• MBA or other advanced degree (including accounting designations such as CPA)
• Worked with or are conversant in Finance technology and data solutions across accounting, tax, treasury, planning, and reporting & analytics.
• Experience both in Strategy Consulting and Industry roles
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise operating models

Responsibilities

• Help clients modernize their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes.
• Understand the client’s priorities and challenges.
• Manage risk, project economics, deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in.
• Be a trusted advisor to clients.
• Be a collaborative team member.
• Help create strategies and blueprints that use advanced operating models, processes, and emerging technologies to improve operations and re-define how work gets done.
• Contribute to a client’s 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).
• Stay on top of current trends, technologies, and regulations influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem.

Benefits

• Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed.
• Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees