Finance - Enterprise Performance Management Manager

Accenture; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 290,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive rewards

State-of-the-art technology

Job summary

Accenture, a leading global professional services firm, seeks a Manager in CFO & Enterprise Value to lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering finance transformation, ERP optimization and value-driven programs for clients in the Middle East and beyond.

You will shape strategic roadmaps, drive business case development, mentor teams, and collaborate with senior executives to secure outcomes that create lasting value. Arabic language skills are preferred.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in consulting.
• Arabic language skills preferred.
• Deep knowledge of finance and accounting processes and how ERP enables them.
• Expertise in financial consolidation, planning and budgeting.
• Deep functional knowledge of SAP or Oracle with hands-on experience.
• Experience with process digitization (RPA, ML, process mining) and cutting-edge tools.
• Experience delivering finance transformation initiatives including value case shaping and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Support clients to achieve strategic and operational goals by introducing efficient ways of working and refining operating models.
• Apply rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis to address complex client challenges and make decisions with limited oversight.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops and agile design with clients, co-developing solutions.
• Cultivate strong client relationships and ensure business requirements and expectations are met or exceeded.
• Contribute to business development including identifying opportunities and presenting proposals with financials.
• Support development of CFO&EV practice offerings, assets, and thought leadership for the wider team.
• Lead and inspire high-performing multidisciplinary teams, mentoring members and driving performance.
• Continuously learn new skills to grow CFO&EV capabilities within Accenture.

Skills

Consulting experience

Arabic language

Financial processes knowledge

Change management

Digital transformation

Stakeholder management

Education

Professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)

MBA (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 800,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology, in particular in AI and Gen AI, with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, Gen AI and Agentic architects, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

As a Manager within CFO and Enterprise Value, you will be:

• Supporting our clients to achieve their strategic and operational goals, by introducing efficient ways of working and enhancing processes and refining operating models.

• Employing your judgment to address complex and ambiguous client business challenges applying rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques (business case); making decisions with little management oversight

• Facilitating design thinking workshops, showcasing agile design to the client, co-developing and securing design decisions and innovative solutions in an agile manner

• Cultivating strong relationship with clients during engagements, ensuring business requirements and expectations are met and/or exceeded

• Contributing to business development activities including identifying opportunities, developing and presenting proposals

• Supporting development of CFO&EV practice/ community capabilities, such as developing offerings, assets, and relevant thought leadership, and engaging with the wider CFO&EV and other teams across Accenture

• Leading and inspiring high-performing multidisciplinary teams, by setting an example, actively mentoring team members and contributing to performance management

• Continuously learning new skills and enhancing your skill set to be able to contribute the growth of CFO&EV as well as wider Accenture organization

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What skills & experience are we looking for?

• 6+ years of experience in consulting

• Arabic speaker is preferred

• Deep level of knowledge of business processes in the F&A, and how those processes are enabled by the ERP

• Expertise in financial consolidation, financial planning and budgeting is a benefit

• Deep functional knowledge of the key features of the major ERP (SAP/ Oracle) and hands on experience (functional expertise)

• Good expertise in process digitization (RPA, ML, process mining), with experience on the ground with some of the cutting-edge tool

• Solid Experience in delivering transformation initiatives in F&A areas (value case shaping, including solid knowledge of the finance value tree, identification of the value drivers and preparation of the business case and roadmap; process reengineering and digitalization to develop the Finance Organization of the Future)

• Proven experience in interacting with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters

• Maintains an understanding of finance and operating model trends and advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, ERP, automation, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem. Manage teams of diverse backgrounds, skill sets and technical functional knowledge

• Experience in leading small/medium size teams

• Ability and willingness in interacting across the Service Groups (e.g. Technology for system implementation)

• Experience in design thinking/agile project delivery methods

• Professional Finance or Accounting Qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA) with 1st time passes desirable and/or MBA is preferred

• Highly credible with the ability to engage broadly with all levels of management, on personal and professional attributes

• Strong analytical skills, understanding of complex issues, the ability to quickly absorb information, conceptual and creative problem-solving excellence

• Extremely strong collaboration, planning, influencing, prioritization and time management skills

• Driven enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination, and optimism

• Experience supporting the management of a sales pipeline and supporting the bid / proposal process, contributing to business development activities including identifying opportunities, developing and presenting proposals with related financials

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

• Preferred industry knowledge and experience: Public Sector, Utilities, Energy, Travel and Health

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

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