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Accenture

Finance Strategy and Transformation Senior Manager

Seattle, WA

We Are:
Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.
You Are:
A Strategy Consulting maestro with tons of experience in finance strategy, and leadership and management skills to spare. Your expertise Advising clients on data-driven strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, and a love of continual learning. You have a flair for breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses-an aptitude you use to decimate problems. Communication and people skills You have both in spades, and as a manager you're a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.

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The Work:
- Go deep to get the lay of the land of clients' digital financial strategies, and grasp clients' business options in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.
- Lead teams to provide world-class strategies and blueprints that define the finance operating model, process automation plan, and analytic insights engine supporting the broader organization's future vision.
- Lead teams in driving insights and recommendations using data models and visualization tools
- Pinpoint the best digital finance solutions to meet the unique market and organizational needs of clients
- Unleash business value by reinventing clients' Finance function with automation, predictive modeling for financial planning, data-science base budgets and forecasts, data and analytics
- Help clients achieve long-term success by drawing up practical road maps that help clients carry out strategy, manage change, monitor and gauge processes, and rectify issues if needed.
- Build relationships with clients to sustain Accenture's profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
- Keep deepening your prowess in digital finance strategy, analytics, the CFO ecosystem and trends in order to reinforce Accenture's reputation as a thought leader.
- Manage junior members of the Strategy team and groom them for more responsibility.
- Racking up those air miles will have to wait, as weekly non-essential travel to client sites Monday through Thursday is currently suspended. 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 several infectious disease experts.

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Qualifications

Here's What You Need:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the finance function, operating models and supporting organization structures, and process best practices, with specific experience in one or more areas: Finance Strategy, Financial Planning & Analysis, Finance Operations, Other finance specialty areas i.e. tax, treasury, investor relations, risk management
- Minimum 5 years of finance strategic consulting experience. Experience must include significant project management as well as business, practice, and people development.
- Minimum 5 years of experience with project management technology that to drive C-suite conversations and project delivery
- Strong quantitative skills and analytical thinker with 2-3 years of prior experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis
- A Bachelor's degree
Bonus Points if:
- You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
- You understand ERP technology (SAP / Oracle)
- You have knowledge of business intelligence reporting solutions (OBIEE, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, etc.)
- You're well-versed in using planning technologies (BPC, Hyperion, Anaplan etc.)
- You're familiar with analytics technologies (SAS, R, Hadoop, etc.)

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 $217,500 - $235,299 and information on benefits offered is here.

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Locations
CA - Los Angeles,CA - San Francisco,WA - Seattle

Job ID: AccentureInc-00917954
Employment Type: Other