Manager - Finance Consulting

Grant Thornton UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK is seeking a Finance Consulting Manager to lead and deliver finance transformation engagements for evolving client needs. You will partner with CFOs and senior teams to drive process improvements, lead multiple projects, and manage budgets and timelines.

The role requires a professional accountancy qualification and a proven track record in managing senior stakeholders. We offer flexible working and opportunities to progress within a collaborative, inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• A professional accountancy qualification with meaningful post-qualification experience across finance processes.
• Experience managing multiple senior stakeholders across concurrent client engagements.
• Strong commercial mindset balancing client needs, engagement economics and risk.
• Flexibility to adapt in a dynamic consulting environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage projects, typically two at a time, directing guidance from Directors or Partners.
• Build internal and external networks, generating opportunities and collaborating with CFO Solutions teams.
• Identify root causes of client issues and translate into compelling propositions.
• Collaborate across CFO Solutions, Consulting and the wider firm to deliver for clients.
• Communicate with senior client stakeholders and manage expectations of senior colleagues.
• Take ownership of quality, compliance, and risk matters.
• Assist with practice development and engagement budgeting and timelines.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Finance process improvement

Communication skills

Education

Professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ICAS, CA, ACCA or CIPFA)

Job description

Alternatively, Grant Thornton

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we're on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

Job Description

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative.

With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we're on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career.

NEW GROUND WON'T BREAK ITSELF.

Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.

The Finance Consulting team helps develop our clients' finance functions so they can support the wider business more effectively. Some engagements focus on a specific, known issue, such as speeding up month end, improving the quality of management information, or training teams on business partnering. Others ask us to diagnose the root cause of a client's challenges, benchmark a finance function against its peers, or redesign a “future fit” finance function ahead of an exit or IPO. Whatever the brief, we work in close partnership with our clients, bringing insight, challenge and pragmatic support to prepare them for what's next.

We're happy to talk flexible working, including reduced hours and job shares. We'll support you to balance work and life.

A look into the role

As a Finance Consulting Manager, you will:

• Manage and lead projects, typically two at a time, . At times you will be the key lead for projects, liaising with a Director or Partner for guidance, challenge and review; on others you'll work more closely with Associate Directors, Directors and Partners on larger, more complex client issues.


• Build your own internal and external network, growing your experience of opportunity generation as you progress towards Associate Director and beyond. You will naturally work closely internally with our wider Consulting and CFO Solutions teams but will also interact regularly with other service line teams


• Use empathy and listening skills to uncover the real root cause of client issues, and translate that into compelling propositions.


• Collaborate confidently across CFO Solutions, Consulting and the wider firm, bringing the right capability to clients regardless of departmental boundaries.


• Communicate confidently with senior client stakeholders, including CFOs, FDs and Private Equity House representatives, and manage the expectations of senior colleagues.


• Take real ownership of quality, compliance and risk matters.


• Contribute to practice development, whether through business development, external marketing, or improving our toolkit, working alongside senior colleagues while building your own niche over time.


• Take responsibility for managing engagement budgets and timelines.

Knowing you're right for us

Joining us as a Finance Consulting Manager, the minimum criteria you'll need are:

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ICAS, CA, ACCA or CIPFA), with meaningful post-qualification experience and experience of a good range of finance function processes, technologies, pain points, and good practices..


• A proven track record of managing multiple senior stakeholders across concurrent client engagements.


• A strong commercial mindset, comfortable balancing client needs, engagement economics and risk.

It would be great if you also had some of the following, but don't worry if you don't tick every box. We'll help you develop along the way:

• A background in finance consulting, external audit, or line-finance roles in industry


• Proven experience in at least one of: month end and year end reporting; improving management reporting; process improvement; or finance system selection and implementation.


• Experience of finance change, process improvement, workshop facilitation, or transformation programmes.


• Ability to apply a structured, methodology-driven approach: identifying root cause, proposing the right response, and delivering the solution.


• Ability to influence senior stakeholders with genuine empathy.


• Experience leading teams and projects.

Knowing we're right for you

Grant Thornton's culture thrives on the contributions of all our people. We never settle for what's easy. We look beyond, to do the right thing for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues, helps our people perform at their best and realise their potential.

Our open, accessible culture means you'll work with leaders who are genuinely interested in you and what you bring to the firm. The things that set you apart are the things we value, which is why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside it.

Beyond the job

Life is more than work. The people and things you care about outside work matter, which is why we're happy to talk flexible working on all our roles and will always do our best to help you balance work and life.

The impact you make here goes beyond your day job. From secondments to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you'll be giving back to society. That drive to do the right thing runs through everything we do, grounded in our firm's values: purposefully driven, actively curious, and candid but kind.

We're looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to proudly do what's right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It's how it should be.