Senior GBS Transformation & Execution Leader

Remote Worker LTD.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture’s Finance Reinvention Partner seeks a senior leader to shape GBS strategy, translate it into a target operating model, and drive its implementation across processes, data, automation and AI. You will guide governance, value delivery and workforce changes while coordinating cross-functional teams across regions.

The role demands extensive experience in GBS, shared services and enterprise transformation, with the ability to manage complex programs, stakeholder expectations and risk while

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience across GBS, shared services or transformation.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into operating models.
• Experience with ERP, data, AI, automation.
• Strong executive communication.
• Industry context in Consumer Goods, Utilities, Energy.

Responsibilities

• Validate the transformation starting point by confirming the approved GBS strategy, target operating model, business case, scope, baseline, assumptions, delivery capacity, dependencies and implementation risks.
• Translate the approved model into an integrated transformation blueprint and roadmap, covering workstreams, delivery waves, milestones, outcomes, resources, funding, critical dependencies, decision points and benefit‑release profiles.
• Establish the transformation-governance and delivery model, including executive governance, workstream accountabilities, design assurance, stage gates, decision rights, change control, RAID and dependency management, quality assurance, financial control and executive reporting.
• Orchestrate delivery across the full GBS transformation, bringing together process harmonisation, retained‑organisation and Global Process Owner changes, GBS/GCC delivery, service‑management implementation, locations and sourcing, technology and data, automation and AI, controls, provider integration, workforce transition and change adoption.
• Maintain alignment with the agreed operating-model guardrails throughout detailed design and implementation. Challenge inconsistent workstream decisions, manage cross-workstream trade‑offs and elevate material changes through the appropriate design authority and executive governance.
• Lead the work‑migration and service‑transition strategy, including wave planning, transition scope, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, service‑acceptance criteria, control readiness, business continuity, cutover, hypercare, stabilisation and handover into business‑as‑usual governance.
• Direct the people, capability and adoption agenda in partnership with organisation, HR and change specialists. Ensure role impacts, capability needs, leadership alignment, workforce transition, communications, training, new ways of working and adoption measures are integrated into delivery rather than treated as downstream activities.
• Integrate technology, data, automation and AI delivery into the transformation roadmap. Ensure releases and use cases align with process and operating-model changes, data and control prerequisites are addressed, and the implications for roles, skills, decision rights, exception handling and human oversight are understood.
• Owner transformation economics and value realisation, including benefit baselines, investment and implementation costs, run-cost impacts, value drivers, benefit owners, outcome measures, service-performance effects and intervention triggers. Identify and address benefit leakage as the programme progresses.
• Manage transformation risk, control and resilience, ensuring that regulatory requirements, data privacy and security, segregation of duties, third‑party risk, service continuity and operational resilience are incorporated into implementation and transition decisions.
• Lead senior client relationships and programme outcomes, taking responsibility for delivery quality, engagement economics, commercial management and risk. Lead and develop the multidisciplinary team, shape follow‑on opportunities and turn delivery experience into reusable methods, assets and points of view.

Skills

GBS leadership

Roadmap planning

Value realisation

Governance

Risk management

Executive alignment

Change management

ERP systems

Cross-functional

Analytics fluency

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Job description

Accenture’s Finance Reinvention Partner seeks a senior leader to shape GBS strategy, translate it into a target operating model, and drive its implementation across processes, data, automation and AI. You will guide governance, value delivery and workforce changes while coordinating cross-functional teams across regions.

The role demands extensive experience in GBS, shared services and enterprise transformation, with the ability to manage complex programs, stakeholder expectations and risk while