Finance and Performance Management - Shared Services Management Consultant - Location Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Consulting professionals at Accenture belong to one of three workgroups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. These workgroups enable us to deliver the increasingly specialized skills that clients demand while providing our people with varied career opportunities.

Our management consultants have the opportunity to work and collaborate with colleagues from across the full spectrum of consulting activity: identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing and re-engineering critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates. Our management consultants are more than just theorists - they turn theory into action. Acting as trusted advisors to our clients, they work directly with FORTUNE© Global 500 companies across many different industry sectors. They concentrate on getting a holistic view of a client's business and industry environment and use their expertise and critical thinking skills to design and deliver realistic, achievable business strategies and solutions that address key client priorities.

Much of the work we do is at the cutting edge of innovation and thinking. We involve our consultants in publishing and sharing this knowledge as thought leadership to benefit clients, industry and fellow colleagues.

Finance & Performance Management group works with clients to develop and deliver innovative solutions that can successfully transform an organization's finance and performance management capabilities. We have the breadth of experience, global resources, superior assets and deep knowledge and insights to help the CFO create new forms of value and to help our clients become high-performance businesses and governments.

Join the Accenture Finance & Performance Management team and you will play a central role in developing innovative business and technology solutions that help clients improve operational efficiency and transform their finance function into a world class organization. As a Finance & Performance Management business consultant, you will support clients with capabilities in the areas of Corporate Finance, Finance Operations and Enterprise Performance Management to help them achieve high performance.

Responsibilities include:

· Organize and facilitate Shared Services process workshops to solicit business and process requirements

· Work with client subject matter experts to clarify shared services requirements and processes

· Document shared services functional requirements

· Assist with governance and service management framework

· Conduct business case analysis for a shared services project

· Identify future state process improvements to maximize the value of the shared services

· Guide team through problem definition, issue identification and work plan development using problem solving principles and past experience

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in Finance

· Minimum of 4 years of experience in Finance and accounting back-office operations, i.e., AP, AR, GL, asset management, management reporting, budgeting and forecasting, etc.

· Minimum of 3 year experience around moving decentralized finance and accounting operations to shared services

· Design, development and implementation of at least 2 complete life cycle finance and accounting shared services centers in the role of team lead over 1 of the work streams, or as a hands-on project manager

· Ability to meet travel requirements, up to 100%

Preferred Skills:

· CPA, CFA, CA, MBA, CMA or experience as an accountant

· Direct experience in creating business change using SAP or Oracle Financials

· SAP or Oracle Financials configuration, conversion or detailed process design

· Experience with other major ERP packages (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, etc)

· Software selection and CRP/prototyping skill

· Experience working with a strategy consulting firm

Professional Skills:

· Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

· Desire to work in an high paced environment

· Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply.
Job: Financial Planning & Strategy
Primary
Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Other Location: Canada-Alberta - Calgary, Canada-British Columbia - Vancouver
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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