Finance Operating Model & GBS Senior Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in London, Manchester and Edinburgh seeks a Senior Manager to lead the finance operating-model and GBS transformation agenda. You will design target models, drive AI-enabled intelligent operations and manage change with CFO-level stakeholders.

You will originate new work, grow accounts and build reusable assets while guiding teams through complex transformation programs.

Qualifications

• Leader in finance operating-model and GBS transformations end to end.
• Experience with AI-enabled intelligent operations.
• Strong CFO engagement and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Design the target operating model and service-delivery model with AI and agents at the core.
• Lead change-management end to end with executive credibility.
• Grow accounts, originate new work and develop reusable assets.
• Collaborate with CFOs and senior finance leaders to realise enterprise value.

Skills

Finance operating-model

GBS transformations

Executive communication

Team leadership

Education

Professional finance qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

EPM

Job description

Career level: Senior Manager (CL6)

Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh

Practice: Finance Reinvention Partner (Operating Model)

About Finance RP

Within Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda — driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise. In the UK and Ireland, our Finance RP practice brings together finance strategy, the operating model that runs it, and the platforms beneath it — spanning SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM.

Why this role

This is a lead role for a finance operating-model and GBS architect — someone who can sit with a CFO, take a whole finance function from strategy through transformation, and run the programme self-sufficiently in front of the client. You'll design the target operating model and the service-delivery model that runs it, put AI and agents at the core rather than bolted on, and carry the organisation through the change. You'll own the design, grow the accounts you work on, and shape how we take finance operating-model and intelligent-operations transformation to market.

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI. We bring together our people, deep industry expertise and technology to deliver end-to-end outcomes for clients — and Finance is one of seven Reinvention Partners at the centre of that. Finance RP brings the CFO agenda to life for clients — stronger performance, sharper insight, and better control.

"Our clients want a partner that can help them reinvent—boldly, continuously and at speed… while continuously building the most client-focused, AI-enabled great place to work for our people—our Reinventors." — Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO

What You'll Bring

Finance operating-model and GBS design.

Deep, hands-on design of the finance target operating model, end to end — the service-delivery model (retained, shared services, global business services (GBS), outsourced and managed services, and the judgement to choose between them), location strategy and delivery footprint, organisation design across spans, layers, roles and structure, and global process ownership across Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash. You make the operating-model calls that hold together and stand behind them as the design authority.

Intelligent and autonomous finance.

This is finance transformation built for where AI is heading. The role designs operating models with AI and agents as first-class citizens — the process shaped around them rather than retrofitted into a human-shaped model — bringing intelligent operations and autonomous process design (agents rather than bots), with the controls and human oversight thought through at operating-model level. You don't need a track record in agentic finance — the market is early and few have one yet — but you bring the appetite, the aptitude and the judgement to design for it, and to lead clients into it responsibly.

The commercial and value case.

You make the case for change in enterprise-value terms: the cost-to-serve case and the benchmarking behind it, a business and benefits case a CFO can back, and the service-management design — SLAs, KPIs and governance — that lets a finance function run the new model and prove it works.

Leading the programme.

You run finance operating-model and GBS transformations self-sufficiently with clients — that independence is what sets a Senior Manager apart here, and it's the heart of the role. You carry the change-management journey end to end, hold immediate credibility at CFO and finance‑leadership level, and influence senior stakeholders through clear, executive communication. You lead, coach and develop the team around you.

Growing the work.

You originate and shape new work, help develop the offering, and build the reusable assets and points of view that grow the practice.

Ways of working.

We’re an AI‑first delivery team — bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, analyse and deliver, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome. You’ll bring that same instinct to how the team works.

Who You Are

You lead with authority and earn trust fast with CFOs and senior finance leaders. You can hold a whole finance operating model in your head — the processes, the people, the technology and the economics — and keep it coherent under pressure. You have commercial instinct and a nose for where an account can grow, you frame change in the language of enterprise value, and you bring people with you through it. You’re a genuine team player who develops those around you, and you’re known for sound, decisive calls.

Things that set strong candidates apart: a track record leading finance operating-model and GBS transformations end to end, self-sufficiently with clients; the appetite and aptitude to lead finance into intelligent, AI‑and‑agent‑led operations; grounding in the finance function itself — close, controls, reporting and data integrity as they shape operating‑model choices; and a professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent industry experience).

You may not have done every part of this. If it's the shape of what you do, we'd like to talk.

You'd help lead the Operating Model part of the practice — finance operating-model, GBS and intelligent-operations transformation: a growing team reinventing how finance functions are run, with AI and agents at the core of the models we design. It's a place to shape deep operating‑model work and the offering around it, close to the CFO agenda it serves.

What's In It For You

Alongside a competitive salary and package (dependent on experience), you'll have an extensive benefits package:

• 30 days' holiday a year
• private medical insurance
• 3 additional days' leave a year for charitable work of your choice

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role earlier should a suitable applicant be found.