Location: Dublin, Ireland

 Salary: Competitive depending on experience

 Career Level: L9

As a team:

Within CFO and Enterprise Value, we bring distinctive capabilities serving the CFO priorities to increase enterprise value and steward the digitalization of the entire enterprise. We help our clients keep up with fast changing regulations, innovations as well as changing market conditions. You will be part of a team that brings to our client’s industry-leading best practices, technologies and strategies in everything from finance strategy to finance process excellence, financial planning, consolidation and analytics as well as financial reporting.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

As a Consultant within CFO and Enterprise Value, you will be:
Supporting our clients to achieve their strategic and operational goals, by introducing efficient ways of working and enhancing processes and refining operating models;

• Employing your judgment to address complex and ambiguous client business challenges applying rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques (business case); making decisions with little management oversight

• Facilitating design thinking workshops, showcasing agile design to the client, co-developing and securing design decisions and innovative solutions in an agile manner

• Cultivating strong relationship with clients during engagements, ensuring business requirements and expectations are met and/or exceeded

• Contributing to business development activities including identifying opportunities, developing and presenting proposals

• Supporting development of CFO&EV practice/ community capabilities, such as developing offerings, assets, and relevant thought leadership, and engaging with the wider CFO&EV and other teams across Accenture

• Continuously learning new skills and enhancing your skill set to be able to contribute the growth of CFO&EV as well as wider Accenture organization

We are looking for following skills and experience:

• Previous experience in a finance transformation, digital finance projects and/or designing or delivering large-scale transformation through ERP or GBS/shared service transitions
• Demonstrates familiarity with key finance technologies and data, including cloud ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Workday or Anaplan
• Practical knowledge of the latest technologies (Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation and Analytics) and the application of these in a finance context
• Process expertise in designing optimized and digitised Finance processes enabled by key platforms/technologies:
• Order-to-Cash (O2C), including contract & order management, billing & collections, and deductions & dispute management, cash management and reconciliations etc.
• Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), including contract and purchasing order management, receiving goods & services, invoice management, payment and travel & expenses etc.
• Acquire-to-Retire (A2R), including project accounting, capitalization, fixed asset management, depreciation and other fixed asset transactions etc.
• Record-to-Report (R2R), including master data management, general accounting, close management, consolidation, external reporting, intercompany accounting and chart of accounts design etc.
• Conduct fit-gap analysis for Finance technology and business processes and develop a roadmap with recommendations based on the finance process requirements
• Identify business requirements and conduct vendor assessment and selection

Set Yourself Apart:

• Experience in design thinking/agile project delivery methods
• Professional Finance or Accounting Qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
• Highly credible with the ability to engage broadly with all levels of management, on personal and professional attributes
• Strong analytical skills, understanding of complex issues, the ability to quickly absorb information, conceptual and creative problem-solving excellence
• Extremely strong collaboration, planning, influencing, prioritisation and time management skills
• Driven; enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination, and optimism
• Proven track record in driving business outcomes for large clients 
• Experience supporting the management of a sales pipeline and supporting the bid / proposal process
• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

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About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

About Accenture

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.Join Accenture to work at the heart of change.

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