Functional and Industry Intelligence Associate Director

Skill required: Offshore- Domain focussed - Record To Report (R2R)
Designation: Func & Ind Intelligence Assoc Director
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:18 to 28 years
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
What would you do? Accenture is Industry leader in Finance & Accounting services. We provide advisory and Business Process Management (BPM) services in Core & Strategic Finance to Fortune 500 clients across 130+ countries in 45 different languages from 50+ Global Delivery centers. We are seeking a dynamic and seasoned Record to Report Practitioner to join our sales and solutioning team. This role is ideal for a domain expert who can bridge the gap between finance operations and business development. You will play a pivotal role in shaping large BPM deals, crafting compelling R2R digital solutions (Hyper-automation, Generative AI, Agentic, etc.) and driving transformation agendas for clients across industries. These are mainly Sales and offering Practioners across domain. These individuals collaborate to secure, interpret, and provide market, functional, and operations expertise to advise both Accenture Operations and other Accenture businesses. Their goal is to drive the offering value proposition and key differentiators into every stage of the sales and account lifecycle. In addition, they serve as functional experts and advisors, working closely with members of our global network to harvest, develop, and deploy differentiated sales and offering assets. They also drive Ventures & Acquisitions and build alliances with ecosystem partners, ensuring that we maintain strong and strategic relationships. Another critical aspect of their role is working with Industry Leads to collaborate on industry-specific offerings. This ensures that our solutions are tailored to meet the unique needs and challenges of different sectors, ultimately delivering greater value to our clients. A Finance and Accounting (F&A) management process which involves collecting, processing and delivering relevant, timely and accurate information used for providing strategic, financial and operational feedback to understand how a business is performing. It covers the steps involved in preparing and reporting the overall accounts which are typically stored in a general or nominal ledger and managed by a Controller.
What are we looking for? RTR Sales practitioner role combines selling skills with deep domain and commercial acumen. You will transform the way finance works in the future by engaging in activities below: • Partner with sales teams to provide deep R2R domain expertise during the pursuit lifecycle. • Lead the design of end-to-end R2R solutions for large, complex deals including transformation, and technology enablement. • Develop client-specific value propositions, solution narratives, and transformation roadmaps. • Participate in client presentations, orals, and workshops to articulate R2R capabilities and transformation levers. • Lead Sales growth and mining in existing accounts for specific MUs and industries • Stay abreast of industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices in R2R, including areas like: • General Ledger, Intercompany, Fixed Assets, Reconciliations, Close & Reporting • Automation, AI/ML in R2R, and digital enablers like BlackLine, Trintech, HighRadius, etc. • Contribute to thought leadership, whitepapers, and point-of-view documents to strengthen market positioning. • Collaborate with delivery, transformation, and digital teams to co-create winning solutions. • Support internal capability building by mentoring junior team members • Hold post graduate finance degree such as CA, CFA, or MBA (Fin) • Deep Domain expertise in RTR area • Hands-on operations or transformation experience in RTR within industries like CPG, Retail, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Media, Hospitality, Healthcare or Financial Services • Have delivered at least 2 large scale F&A deals or Tech. led RTR Transformation for large global Clients • Well versed with Industry technologies & leading tools, automation, AI and Analytics plus, they already have a proven track record of implementing Digital finance solutions • Developing strong client relationships, drive client dialogue both at GPO and at CFO level, and in shaping and delivering value-led finance projects. • Solid team player who thrives when working in a fast-paced, high energy and project-oriented environment and accustomed to driving outcomes in matrixed organization structures. • Excellent leadership and communication skills with experience in managing a high-performance team and delivering complex transformation projects • You are an action and results-oriented, self-driven person with a high energy level, analytical and structured, quality focused and adaptable • You are flexible to travel and adjust to working shift patterns
Roles and Responsibilities: •This role requires proactive identification, definition and solving of complex problems that have impact on the direction of the business or work effort, where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of Accenture • It requires development and execution of strategy to achieve key business objectives in area of responsibility • Interaction is with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, involving negotiation or influencing on critical matters • Individual should have wide latitude in decision making and determination of objectives and approaches to critical assignments • Decisions have a major and lasting impact on areas outside of own responsibility • Individual manages large complex teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture • Please note that this role may require you to work in rotational shiftsAny Graduation

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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