Finance Transformation Manager

Accenture Middle East; Riyadh; Vor Ort; SAR 480.000 - 620.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Accenture Middle East seeks a Finance Strategy Manager to advise CFOs and senior leaders on enterprise performance, including AI-enabled EPM/FP&A, cost transformation and capital efficiency. The role spans engagement leadership across multiple workstreams, economic management and client relationship development.

The ideal candidate has 7–9 years in Finance Strategy or CFO advisory, with EBITDA, cash flow and return on invested capital improvements as concrete outcomes.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in CFO advisory or strategy consulting.
• Proven ability to lead large multidisciplinary engagements.
• Experience with AI-enabled finance is a plus.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure decisions.

Aufgaben

• Advise CFOs and senior leaders on enterprise performance and value creation.
• Own engagement delivery across workstreams and engagement economics.
• Lead and coach consultants and develop senior client relationships to win work.
• Design finance strategies, roadmaps and KPI frameworks for clients.
• Develop business cases and financial scenarios for investments and prioritization.
• Identify AI use cases in finance and prioritize adoption.

Kenntnisse

Finance Strategy

CFO Advisory

EPM & FP&A

Value Creation

Capital Allocation

Financial Modelling

Executive Communication

Engagement Leadership

Business Development

Team Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting

MBA preferred

CFA/CPA advantageous

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical and commercially minded Finance Strategy Manager to advise CFOs and senior business leaders on improving enterprise performance and delivering measurable enterprise value. The role spans AI-enabled enterprise performance management (EPM) and FP&A, cost transformation, finance operating models and capital efficiency, with specialist expertise in value creation services. The successful candidate will shape the CFO agenda and lead multidisciplinary teams through large-scale transformation programs for leading organizations, translating strategic priorities into improvements in profitability, cash flow and return on invested capital. They will also own engagement delivery and economics, build senior client relationships and contribute to proposals and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop finance strategies and transformation roadmaps that connect business priorities with performance improvement, CapEx modelling, WC optimization and measurable value creation.
• Lead the design of enterprise performance management and FP&A capabilities, covering strategic planning, integrated budgeting, driver-based forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Design cost and profitability models, including activity-based costing, product costing and zero-based cost transformation.
• Define value-driver trees, KPI frameworks, management reporting and executive dashboards, with consistent measures and a governance operating model covering performance management, reporting and the wider finance function.
• Excel in at least one of the following areas: treasury transformation, improving cash visibility, liquidity management and financial risk controls; or enterprise-wide post-merger integration, leading integration across strategy, operations, people, technology and finance to realize synergies and ensure business continuity.
• Build business cases, investment assessments and financial scenarios to evaluate returns, risks and cash implications and support the prioritization of resources and initiatives.
• Facilitate executive workshops, challenge assumptions constructively, resolve competing priorities and secure stakeholder decisions and sign-off on key designs and/or milestones.
• Own engagement delivery across workstreams, managing scope, staffing, milestones, dependencies, risks, delivery standards and engagement economics.
• Lead and coach consultants, coordinate subject‑matter experts, and demonstrate the ability to maintain strong client relationships to generate new commercial opportunities and win additional work.
• Contribute to proposals and account development through solution design, scope definition, staffing and commercial assumptions; develop reusable assets and finance points of view to strengthen Finance RP’s thought leadership.
• Identify and assess AI and automation use cases in finance, defining business requirements, data readiness, controls, expected benefits and priorities for adoption.

Preferred Experience

• 7–9 years of relevant experience in Finance Strategy, CFO Advisory, Strategy Consulting or Value Creation Services, including leadership of complex engagements
• Strong experience in EPM and FP&A design, cost and profitability management and finance operating-model transformation, with exposure to driver-based planning, zero‑based cost transformation and AI-enabled finance.
• Experience designing and delivering value creation programs across revenue growth, margin expansion, cost transformation, working capital and capital efficiency, translating quantified opportunities into measurable improvements in EBITDA, cash flow and return on invested capital.
• Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following areas: treasury transformation or enterprise‑wide post‑merger integration.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing engagement scope, commercials and delivery risks, alongside the ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure key decisions and sign‑off.
• A track record of developing senior client relationships, shaping proposals and winning additional work, with experience in solution design, scope definition and commercial assumptions.

Required Skills

• Finance Strategy and CFO Advisory
• EPM and FP&A
• Value Creation and Capital Allocation
• Cost Transformation and Profitability Management
• Financial Modelling and Business Case Development
• Finance Operating Models and Governance
• Treasury Transformation or Enterprise‑Wide Post‑Merger Integration Services
• AI-Enabled Finance, Automation and Data Governance
• Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence
• Engagement Leadership and Commercial Management
• Business Development and Proposal Development
• Team Leadership and Coaching

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business, or a quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Physics or Mathematics.
• MBA or relevant master’s degree, including finance, economics or a quantitative discipline, preferred.
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent are advantageous.
• Experience with large multinational enterprises, diversified groups, sovereign investment organizations, investment funds or clients in regulated industries, preferably in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.