Senior Manager - Finance Strategy & Transformation

Wipro; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Wipro is seeking a Senior Manager for its Finance Transformation consulting practice in Greater London. This position involves leading complex client engagements, ensuring delivery excellence, and driving business growth. Candidates should have substantial experience in consulting with Tier 1 firms, and demonstrate strong leadership, program management, and relationship-building skills. The role requires expertise in finance processes and digital finance tools, particularly in relation to ERP implementations. Applications from individuals with disabilities are welcomed.

Qualifications

• Significant experience working with multiple clients in Big4 / Accenture.
• Ability to drive and lead strategic execution and manage change.
• Strong program and consulting disciplines required.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex consulting engagements as primary client contact.
• Owns end-to-end engagement delivery ensuring high-quality execution.
• Partners closely with Global Business Lines to deliver solutions.

Skills

End to end process diagnostic experience

Understanding of AI / Agentic within Finance processes

Experience with Finance software vendors

Good understanding of Process intelligence

Experience with ERP implementation projects in SAP S/4 Hana

Outstanding leadership and relationship building skills

Job description

Overview & Responsibilities

Wipro is at the forefront of helping companies transform so that they can deliver great experiences to their customers, partners and employees.

This is a Senior Manager level role within our Finance Transformation consulting practice, supporting the growth of the consulting business across strategic accounts and creating new strategic growth areas to deliver profitable growth.

• Finance Strategy
• Global Business Services (GBS)
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
• Finance Technology and Process Automation
• Provide pull-through opportunities for wider Wipro Consulting practice areas (Supply Chain & Operations, Sales & Marketing, AI Advisory & Tech Strategy, People & Change, Sustainability)

Key Responsibilities

• Client Leadership & Engagement Ownership – Leads complex consulting engagements as the primary client contact, building trusted senior‑stakeholder relationships and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Consulting Delivery Excellence – Owns end‑to‑end engagement delivery, ensuring high‑quality execution, value realization, and adherence to Wipro Consulting’s delivery frameworks and standards.
• GBL & Cross‑Service Collaboration – Partners closely with Global Business Lines, SMUs, and Client Engagement Partners to deliver integrated, end‑to‑end transformation solutions under the One Wipro model.
• Business Development & Account Growth – Supports account growth through consultative selling, shaping client propositions, contributing to value‑based business cases, and expanding footprint within strategic accounts.
• People Leadership & Team Development – Leads, coaches, and develops high‑performing, multi‑disciplinary consulting teams, fostering strong delivery capability and future leadership pipelines.
• Thought Leadership, IP & Market Presence – Contributes to consulting thought leadership, solution development, and reusable IP while enhancing Wipro Consulting’s market credibility with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Global Matrix & Stakeholder Management – Operates effectively within a global, matrix organisation, influencing diverse stakeholders across regions, functions, and service lines to achieve shared outcomes.

Who we are looking for

Successful applicants will have experience of working with multiple clients across various industries in Big4 / Accenture / other Tier 1 consulting organisations.

Driving Transformation

• Significant transformation proposition definition and engagement shaping using core and disruptive technologies to solve business problems for tangible business benefits at large enterprise clients.
• Ability to drive and lead strategic execution, manage change, build relationships with clients and partners, motivate teams and achieve results.
• Bring strong program and consulting disciplines (e.g. Project / Program Management, Storytelling, Executive Communications, Commercial disciplines).

Key skills required to be successful are

• Process
  • End to end process diagnostic experience
  • Understanding of AI / Agentic within Finance processes and key value chains – PTP, OTC, RTR and FP&A
• Digital Finance Tools
  • Experience working with Finance software vendors in go‑to‑market activities, design and implementation of technology and surrounding processes and change management (e.g. BlackLine, High Radius, FIS).
  • Good understanding of Process intelligence and platforms like Celonis, Signavio.
• ERP / S4 & Business case
  • Must have experience with ERP implementation projects in SAP S/4 Hana.
  • Experience in Business case creation for S4Hana migration and similar large transformation projects.
  • Understanding of key CFO driven business metrics and linking with process driven operational KPIs.

Shape & Deliver

• Outstanding leadership, communication, relationship building and networking skills on the client side, ecosystem partners and internal organization.
• Supports in generating consulting business from new and existing accounts and have the capability to drive and lead customer relationships into large engagements.
• Bring a self‑sufficient approach that will be both pro‑active in driving business development opportunities as well as effective at creating personal utilization in our sell & deliver operating model (after a period of embedding).
• Delivery and program expertise with experience in handling multi‑shore consulting projects with distributed teams delivering sustainable customer value.

Talent Management

• Creative, collaborative, and motivating consulting leader who can focus diverse teams on common outcomes and goals.
• Execution of organizational people strategy with strong collaboration from HR and Recruitment leads.
• Proactively seeks opportunities to attract top diverse talent at all levels.

Thought Leadership

• Brings own opinion on the key issues facing CFOs across the Europe region and able to demonstrate how they have leveraged this in a collaborative environment to develop points of views and propositions.
• Ability to converse with industry leaders and analysts on trends within the European market.
• Proactively propose solutions, investment decisions along with published artifacts, industry speakerships, analyst interactions.
• Internal content and offerings creator, writes publications, blogs and whitepapers.
• Utilizes social media effectively with their digital presence to enhance the Wipro brand presence.

Applications from people with disabilities are explicitly welcome.