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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Life Sciences Finance Reinvention Partner

Financial & Transaction AdvisoryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of finance management consulting experience is required.
  • A minimum of 5 years of functional experience in Finance operations, such as Financial Close, External Reporting, Intercompany, Consolidations, Order-to-Cash, or Invoice-to-Pay, FP&A, and related areas is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience with leading finance ERP/EPM platforms, such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, or OneStream, is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience leading projects and/or small to mid-size teams of 10–15 people is required.
  • A minimum of 3 years of experience with Finance functions, operating models, and supporting organization structures, including analytics, forecasting, and core finance, is required.
  • A bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, or Business Administration is required.

Responsibilities

  • Help clients modernize their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes.
  • Transform Clinical/R&D Finance, including portfolio prioritization, pipeline strategy, and trial cost planning and management.
  • Lead Commercial Finance initiatives, including Gross to Net Finance sales initiatives.
  • Lead Supply Chain Finance initiatives, including standard cost design and integration of manufacturing, quality, and finance data.
  • Understand client challenges and apply knowledge of related leading practices to provide solutions to complex business problems.
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor for other Accenture projects and proposals based on area of expertise to drive business development activities.
  • Manage risk, project economics, and deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership.
  • Encourage innovation from team members and support their 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 clients’ digital transformations and help drive efficiency, effectiveness, experience, and growth by identifying needed skillsets, data, operating models, process automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technology such as FinTech applications and AI/ML/GenAI/Agentic AI.
  • Find modern technology and data solutions for clients and share best practices across the industry.
  • Help grow the practice by participating in key business development activities and cycles.
  • Stay current on trends, technologies, and regulations influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem.
  • Drive incremental sales by leading and assembling the requisite teams to respond to proposals.

Desired Qualifications

  • Clearly communicate with clients, lead client workshops, document requirements, and articulate value propositions and business cases.
  • Understand process best practices for designing finance, accounting, planning, forecasting, and reporting solutions.
  • Have experience or understanding of automation, including RPA, Applied Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, GenAI, or Agentic AI for Finance.
  • Have experience with FinTech solutions such as Anaplan, Hyperion, BPC, OBIEE, Tableau, and Fusion.
  • Improve engagement for the business, a practice, or people development.
  • Have experience as a leader or functional team member on ERP implementations and knowledge of SAP, Oracle, and/or Workday.
  • Have experience with Finance function-enabling technologies such as BlackLine, Workiva, and Trintech.
  • Have defined and shaped a company’s financial, management, or regulatory reporting and/or developed Finance Master Data strategy.
  • Have an MBA, another type of advanced degree, or an accounting designation such as CPA or CA.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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