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Accenture

Finance Operating Model Strategy Consultant

Boston, MA

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As a strategic thinker and practitioner, you're the perfect person to support your team in helping Finance executives address some of the top challenges faced today such as designing the Finance operating model and workforce of the future, fostering business partnering, and enabling intelligent finance. You're a creative and analytical person, a team player, someone who enjoys solving complex problems, and working in the gray.

The work:
  • Shape and articulate the shared services and/or advanced business services strategy, value proposition and business case to the C-suite level to include COO, CFO, CHRO, CPO, etc.
  • Drives the new operating model design based on corporate strategic priorities; determine the right approach of developing the model from a zero base or through targeted optimization (as-is versus to-be analysis)
  • Design service delivery model components including governance, service management, service level agreements, and chargeback models
  • Help clients evaluate sourcing and location alternatives for their service delivery model
  • Create operating model transition plans and program business cases
  • Maintain an understanding of finance and operating model trends and advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem
  • Work on teams of diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and technical/functional knowledge. Encourage creative and innovative thinking from team members
Travel:
  • For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
  • Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.
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Qualifications

Here's what you need:
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in operating model strategy with specific experience in one or more areas; enterprise operating model, functional operating model strategy, zero-based organization, shared services, process improvement, organizational design
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience at a consulting firm
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis using quantitative skills and analytical thinking
  • Minimum of a bachelor's degree.
Bonus points if:
  • Experience with Strategic Cost Reduction or Zero-Based solutions, and/or a Corporate Function in a strategic planning and performance capacity.
  • Shared Services/Business Services design or outsourcing/operations management
  • You've got an MBA after your name or another type of advanced degree
As required by theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is

$120,000-$147,499 and information on benefits offered is here.

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Job ID: AccentureInc-00980657
Employment Type: Other