Life Sciences Finance Reinvention Partner - Sr. Manager

Accenture•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Life Sciences Finance Reinvention Partner works with Finance executives to drive enterprise value by helping clients improve efficiency, manage costs, increase profitability, and identify new opportunities. The role advises CFOs, Finance VPs, and transformation sponsors in the pharmaceutical, MedTech/medical device, and medical distribution industries. It combines finance functional expertise with Life Sciences industry knowledge to lead complex, multi-workstream transformations aligned with the industry value chain. The role leads end-to-end finance transformations across core finance processes—including Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FP&A, Tax, and Treasury—as well as Clinical/R&D finance, commercial finance and gross-to-net transformation, product costing, margin management, and supply chain finance. It designs target-state finance operating models, including roles, governance, controls, and data models aligned to regulatory and reporting needs, and integrates finance with Procurement, Commercial, R&D, and Supply Chain processes. The Partner provides CFOs and their teams with data and insights to support change narratives and shareholder value, advises senior leaders, and contributes subject matter expertise to client projects and proposals. The role oversees engagement risk, project economics, deliverable quality, and client buy-in; guides digital transformations using operating models, process automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technologies; and supports practice growth through business development and proposal leadership. It also encourages team innovation and development and stays current with trends, technologies, and regulations affecting digital finance and the CFO ecosystem.

Requirements

At least 8 years of finance and/or accounting experience with management consulting experience, including significant Life Sciences finance transformation leadership.
Bachelor's degree.
Ability to communicate clearly with clients, document requirements, and articulate value propositions and business cases.
Ability to lead client solutioning and problem-solving workshops.
Ability to interface effectively with C-suite clients, individually and as part of an engagement team.

Nice To Haves

Significant finance transformation experience across multiple finance function areas.
Experience with or familiarity with finance technology and data solutions across accounting, tax, treasury, planning, reporting, and analytics.
Familiarity with emerging technologies such as GenAI and Agentic AI, and ability to explain them clearly to CFOs.
Comfort with ERP/EPM platforms and familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, and OneStream, including interdependencies across the finance and enterprise technology landscape.
Proven experience shaping finance strategy that reflects Life Sciences regulatory environments, complex revenue and contracting models, and global manufacturing and distribution networks.
Significant engagement management, business development, practice development, and people development experience.
Curiosity about clients' industries and businesses and ability to translate that understanding into finance or enterprise solutions aligned with business strategy and objectives.
Intellectual curiosity about emerging technologies and how they can improve the experience of Finance employees and deliver better outputs for Finance stakeholders.
Experience designing finance, accounting, planning, forecasting, reporting, data, and analytics operating models across talent, process, data, and technology.
Solid understanding of the Finance function, operating models, organizational structures, process best practices, and interdependencies with non-finance stakeholders and third parties.
MBA or another advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end Life Sciences finance transformation programs across core finance processes, Clinical/R&D finance, commercial and gross-to-net finance, product costing, margin management, and supply chain finance.
Design and execute target-state finance operating models, including finance roles, governance, controls, and regulatory- and reporting-aligned data models.
Integrate finance operating models and processes with Procurement, Commercial, R&D, and Supply Chain.
Provide CFOs and their teams with data and insights to build a compelling change narrative and drive shareholder value.
Understand client challenges and apply leading practices to solve complex business problems.
Serve as a subject matter advisor for other projects and proposals.
Manage engagement risk, project economics, deliverable content, and client buy-in.
Advise senior leadership and build trusted relationships with clients.
Encourage team innovation and support team members' ideas and career goals.
Create strategies and blueprints using advanced operating models, processes, and emerging technologies to improve operations and redefine how work gets done.
Oversee client digital transformations, identifying required skills, data, operating models, automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technology.
Identify modern technology and data solutions for clients and share industry best practices.
Support practice growth by participating in and taking accountability for key business development activities and cycles.
Stay current with trends, technologies, and regulations affecting digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem.
Lead and assemble teams to respond to proposals and drive incremental sales.