Finance Transformation Sr Manager - Resources Industry

Accenture; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Finance Transformation leader to partner with CFOs and drive enterprise value. You will guide vision, strategy, and outcomes while aligning finance with business goals, leveraging GenAI and modern technologies.

In this role, you will engage with senior leaders, manage engagements, and help grow the practice across finance functions and ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, and Workday. A strong client advisory background is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of Finance transformation experience.
• Minimum 5 years of finance/accounting with management consulting experience.
• Minimum 3 years in Resources industry (Utilities or Energy).
• Experience interfacing with C-suite clients and leading engagements.
• Familiarity with Finance technology and data solutions across accounting, tax, treasury, planning, and reporting & analytics.

Responsibilities

• Help clients modernize finance functions by setting vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes.
• Provide CFO with data and insights to drive shareholder value.
• Understand client challenges and provide solutions using leading practices.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor for Accenture projects in your area of expertise.
• Manage engagement risk, project economics, and ensure client buy-in.
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership and grow the practice.

Skills

Executive communication

Client management

Engagement management

Business development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA or advanced degree

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Job description

We are:

We partner with Finance executives to drive value across the enterprise. As Finance leaders move into business partner roles, they need processes, technology and people to help drive efficiencies, manage costs, improve profitability, and identify new areas of opportunity. We’ve got the deep industry experience, functional proficiency, insightful analytics, and the digital technology leadership to help our clients reinvent themselves. Whether we are improving processes, transforming the digital core, or harnessing the power of GenAI, we solve our clients’ toughest problems. Visit us here to find out more about CFO-Enterprise Value.

You are:

A leader in digital finance with a strong curiosity for understanding clients' businesses and a client-centric approach. You excel at solving complex CFO problems by aligning financial strategies with overall business goals. Your expertise in finance functions, combined with your ability to develop innovative solutions, and your curiosity for how your clients business works and can grow makes you a trusted advisor to senior leadership.

The work:

• Help clients modernize their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes.
• Provide the CFO with the right data and insights to create a compelling change narrative and drive shareholder value.
• Understand the client’s challenges and use knowledge of related leading practices to provide solutions to complex business problems.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor for other Accenture projects and proposals for your area of expertise.
• Manage engagement risk, project economics, deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in.
• Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership.
• Encourage innovation from team members; support their ideas and career goals.
• Create strategies and blueprints that use advanced operating models, processes, and emerging technologies to improve operations and re-define how work gets done.
• Oversee clients digital transformations, help them drive efficiency, effectiveness, experience, and growth: identify needed skillsets, data, operating models, process automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technology (i.e. (FinTech apps, AI/ML/GenAI, etc)).
• Find modern technology and data solutions for clients and share best practices across the industry.
• Help Grow the practice by participating in key business development activities and cycles.
• Stay on top of current trends, technologies, and regulations influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem.
• Drive incremental sales by leading and assembling the requisite teams to respond to proposals.

Here's what you need:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 8 years of Finance transformation experience working across a number of Finance function areas
• Minimum 5 years of finance and/or accounting with management consulting experience.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in the Resources industry (Utilities or Energy).
• Bonus points if: Significant engagement management as well as business, practice, and people development.
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with senior level (C suite) clients individually and as a member of an engagement team.
• You’ve worked with or is conversant in Finance technology and data solutions across accounting, tax, treasury, planning, and reporting & analytics.
• You are familiar with emerging and modern technologies and tools (eg. Gen AI) and can describe them to the CFO in a simple and understandable way.
• You’re comfortable with ERP technology and know your way around SAP, Oracle, Workday and understand the interdependencies across the rest of the finance and enterprise technology landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with clients, document requirements, and articulate the value proposition and business case.
• You’ve got an MBA or another type of advanced degree.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/19/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture Role Location Annual Salary Range California $132,500 to $338,300

• Annual Salary Range Colorado $132,500 to $292,200
• Annual Salary Range Connecticut $132,500 to $292,200
• Annual Salary Range District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200
• Annual Salary Range Illinois $122,700 to $292,200
• Annual Salary Range Maine $112,900 to $249,000
• Annual Salary Range Maryland $132,500 to $292,200
• Annual Salary Range Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200
• Annual Salary Range Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200
• Annual Salary Range New York $122,700 to $338,300
• Annual Salary Range New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300
• Annual Salary Range Ohio $122,700 to $270,600
• Annual Salary Range Virginia $122,700 to $311,200
• Annual Salary Range Washington $141,100 to $311,200

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