Finance Change Lead

ACCENTURE PTE LTD; Penarth, High Street; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Finance Change Lead to collaborate with finance stakeholders on the people side of transformation. You will drive change management, communications, learning, and business readiness to ensure adoption of new finance processes and tools.

Responsibilities include developing strategies, stakeholder engagement, training design, and risk mitigation, in a role that partners with senior leaders and project teams across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Change Management.
• 5+ years of experience in Change Management, Organizational Development, Workforce Transformation, HR Transformation, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience delivering stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, adoption, and business readiness activities.
• Experience conducting organizational impact assessments and supporting large-scale transformation programs.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
• Ability to articulate value cases and develop business cases that drive outcomes.
• Passion for leveraging AI-powered tools to improve productivity and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute change management strategies and plans to support finance transformation initiatives.
• Conduct stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement across impacted groups.
• Assess organizational and workforce impacts from transformation initiatives.
• Develop and deliver communication plans that build awareness and commitment to change.
• Design and coordinate training, learning, and adoption activities for successful transitions.
• Implement business readiness activities to prepare stakeholders for future-state processes.
• Identify and manage change risks, resistance points, and mitigation strategies.
• Develop practical change solutions using established methodologies and assets.
• Partner with business leaders and project teams to drive alignment and adoption.

Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Facilitation

Consulting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

FIAT

Job description

About the Role

Join Accenture's Talent & Organisation (T&O) practice, where we help organizations successfully navigate transformation through effective change management and workforce adoption strategies. As a Finance Change Lead, you will partner with finance stakeholders to drive the people side of change, ensuring impacted teams are prepared, engaged, and equipped to adopt new ways of working. You will play a key role in delivering change management activities that support transformation outcomes, focusing on stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, business readiness, and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute change management strategies and plans to support finance transformation initiatives.
• Conduct stakeholder identification, analysis, and engagement activities across impacted business groups.
• Assess organizational and workforce impacts arising from transformation initiatives.
• Develop and deliver communication plans that build awareness, understanding, and commitment to change.
• Design and coordinate training, learning, and adoption activities to support successful transitions.
• Implement business readiness activities to prepare stakeholders for future-state processes and ways of working.
• Identify and manage change risks, resistance points, and mitigation strategies.
• Develop practical change solutions using established methodologies, tools, and assets.
• Partner with business leaders, project teams, and stakeholders to drive alignment and sustained adoption.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Change Management.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Change Management, Organizational Development, Workforce Transformation, HR Transformation, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience delivering stakeholder engagement, communications, learning, adoption, and business readiness activities.
• Experience conducting organizational impact assessments and supporting large-scale transformation programs.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
• Ability to articulate value cases and develop business cases that demonstrate how organizational, process, and technology changes drive business outcomes.
• Passion for leveraging AI and proven experience applying AI-powered tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to improve productivity, accelerate deliverable development, enhance decision-making, and drive business outcomes.
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Accenture Functional Impact Assessment Tool (FIAT).
• Advanced Communication Management.
• Advanced Stakeholder Management.
• Advanced Training and Development.
• Intermediate Process Improvement.
• Experience supporting finance-focused transformation initiatives from a change management perspective.

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.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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