Business Advisor - Core Finance
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People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward.
This role utilizes deep industry or Finance and Accounting domain expertise to deliver business value on a repeatable basis to clients. They develop strategic business insights and drive decision-making to uncover opportunities to grow revenue to reduce costs. They utilize a broad set of analytical tools or management techniques to improve client business functions. The right candidate will be creative and resourceful and will utilize traditional and out of the box solutions to achieve superior business outcomes by leveraging transformation methodologies and assets. The candidate should have deep experience and a solid understanding of Finance & Accounting processes: Order to Cash (OTC), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record to Report (R2R) and/or FP&A.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work outside documented processes applying judgment-based services that deliver client value
- Provide functional expertise for the key differentiating processes, products and solutions.
- Drive and manage analytical efforts in areas specific to business function and industry focus.
- Develop strategic business insights and recommendations for improvements to business functions by partnering with client leads and aligning business priorities
- Provide next generation recommendations for process improvements to drive efficiency and cost savings
- Develop and articulate proof of concept for clients including strategy, scope, staffing, engagement setup and execution
- Work on Operations Transformation project-based solutions - end-to-end delivery of specific work-streams covering problem structuring and solving, communication of solutions, client engagement and stakeholder management.
- Manage day-to-day operations with supervisory authority over multiple associates. This includes allocating work, setting associate daily goals, and monitoring production.
- Responsible for the quality of production work from team and individual associates.
- Responsible for measuring and analyzing reporting metrics and producing management reporting.
- Coach, mentor, and develop direct reports.
- Motivate and lead associates by example, effectively communicating individual, team and company objectives to optimize knowledge transfer and maintain corporate informational transparency wherever possible.
- Identify, implement, and oversee process improvements across department in conjunction with the Project Management Office, Business Analysts and client(s).
This role will require 100% travel in the future. 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 a number of infectious disease experts.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 3 years of Operational Finance & Accounting experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA or CMA
- Business Process Outsourcing or Captive Shared Services experience
- Lean Six Sigma experience
- Business & Operational Excellence experience
- Cross industry and functional operations experience
- Strong PPT and Excel pivot tables, statistical analysis with Excel functions, data mining and process mapping
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
- Understanding of transformation, training and operational excellence methodologies
- Data Analytics & Interpretation
- Metrics & Reporting
- Project Management (PMP)
- Utilize analytical /statistical tools (e.g., SAS, JDA,) to develop business data insights
- Analysis and solving of moderate to complex problems
- Provide next generation recommendations for process improvements to drive efficiency and cost savings Robotic Process Automation
- Order to Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Record to Report automation experience
Professional Skill Requirements:
- Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Ability to manage diverse teams to maximize performance and accomplish business outcomes
- Delegate work activities and maintain team motivation and engagement
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