Strategic Planning & Performance Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a hands-on Finance Reinvention Partner specialist to lead planning, forecasting and performance insights for enterprise clients.

You will collaborate with finance, operations and technology teams to understand requirements, design practical model configurations, and support deployment, adoption and value realisation across planning platforms such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Pigment, Oracle EPM or OneStream.

Qualifications

• Experience participating in or supporting budgeting, forecasting, or long-range planning.
• Understanding of how operational drivers affect the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
• The ability to document planning calendars, activities, roles, controls, systems and data flows; gather requirements through interviews and workshops; and converts findings into clear process maps, user stories and functional documentation.
• Hands-on experience with, or strong exposure to, at least one modern planning platform and the ability to support model configuration across dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, calculations, allocations, workflow, security and reporting.
• Experience or project exposure within Products and/or Resources organisations, ideally where planning is influenced by demand, production, assets, projects, workforce, supply chain or capital expenditure.
• An understanding of how predictive forecasting, trend analysis, anomaly detection and machine learning can support planning, together with the curiosity to test outputs and explain insights.

Responsabilités

• Document current planning processes, calendars, roles, systems, controls, data flows and pain points using interviews, workshops and available evidence.
• Gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into process maps, user stories, functional requirements and model-design inputs.
• Analyse financial and operational data to identify key drivers, trends, dependencies and opportunities to improve planning and performance insight.
• Configure or support the configuration of planning models, including dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, calculations, allocations, scenarios, workflow, security and reporting.
• Support data preparation, migration, integration, reconciliation, system testing, user acceptance testing and defect resolution, ensuring outputs are complete and traceable.
• Develop planning reports, dashboards, variance analysis and forecast-quality measures that help users understand what changed, why it changed and what action may be required.
• Support predictive-forecasting and machine-learning use cases by preparing data, testing outputs, documenting assumptions and working with specialists and business users to validate results.
• Prepare process documentation, training materials and user guidance, and support deployment, adoption, post-go-live activities and continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of assigned deliverables and contribute to proposals, demonstrations, market research and reusable Planning, Performance & Insights assets.

Connaissances

Planning and finance foundations

Requirements and process analysis

Planning model and platform delivery

Data and performance insight

Products and Resources or similar

Predictive planning and ML awareness

Collaborative delivery skills

Outils

SAP Analytics Cloud

Anaplan

Pigment

CCH Tagetik

Oracle EPM

OneStream

Description du poste

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a hands-on Finance Reinvention Partner specialist to lead planning, forecasting and performance insights for enterprise clients.

You will collaborate with finance, operations and technology teams to understand requirements, design practical model configurations, and support deployment, adoption and value realisation across planning platforms such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Pigment, Oracle EPM or OneStream.