Resources- Finance Transformation Principal Director

Accenture; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 151,000 - 434,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking senior strategic leaders to drive finance transformation and enterprise reinvention for major organizations. You will influence senior executives, lead multi‑disciplinary teams, and guide finance, planning, and analytics initiatives across complex programs.

The role emphasizes strategic direction, cross-functional collaboration, and scalability of financial systems and processes, with a strong emphasis on value delivery and stakeholder alignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 12+ years of management consulting experience.
• 12+ years leading and managing large teams.
• 12+ years of demonstrated operational expertise in FP&A, planning, forecasting or management reporting.
• Strong understanding of finance processes and leading practices.
• Experience with ERP migrations or consolidating legacy systems.
• Finance Transformation and automation experience.
• Proven skills in reporting, analytics, dashboards and KPI definition.

Responsibilities

• Provides solutions to complex business problems for areas with deep organizational objectives.
• Participates in setting strategic direction and near-term goals.
• Interacts with senior management and negotiates on significant matters.
• Makes decisions with lasting impact on areas of responsibility.
• Manages large teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic thinking

Client management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA Preferred

Tools

Anaplan

OneStream

Oracle EPM Cloud

SAP SAC

SAP Group Reporting

Workday Adaptive Insights

Planful

Board

Tagetik

Job description

In Strategy & Consulting we work with C‑suite executives, leaders and boards of the world's leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization's total enterprise reinvention.

CFO-Enterprise Value, and we give finance execs the sounding board they need. Value isn't just about maintenance. It's about zeroing in on smart, sustainable ways to grow, and finding the right tools to keep everything on track. We've got the deep industry experience, the functional insights, the data power, and the digital tech leadership to help our clients make important changes. Whether we're breaking down meaningful analytics, designing the perfect finance platforms, or building from current risk and compliance models to get ready for the future, we solve our clients' toughest problems.

Key responsibilities:

Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in‑depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near‑term goals for area of responsibility.

Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters.

Has latitude in decision‑making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Decisions have a lasting impact on an area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside areas of responsibility.

Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

Job Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum of 12 years of management consulting experience

Minimum of 12 years of experience leading/managing a large team

Minimum of 12 years of demonstrated operational expertise with one or more of the following:

Financial Planning and Analysis (Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting or Management Reporting)

Advanced enterprise planning, integrated business planning, scenario modeling, advanced predictive analytics

Financial process and/or system program management responsibilities

Solid understanding of the underlying finance and accounting processes and leading practices

Management of a finance team function

Management reporting & operational or balance scorecarding

Integration projects - experience moving from a legacy to any ERP system or consolidating legacy transaction systems into single (few) enabling technologies with a focus on functional, process and/or data standardization

Finance Transformation (Planning, Financial Reporting, EPM, Program/Project Management, Change Management, Financial Systems Integration)

Financial Process automation, standardization, organizational consolidation (e.g. Creating, Defining Finance Centers of Excellence, automating processes through robotics or applied intelligence, machine learning)

Reporting and analytics including visualizations, dashboards, scorecards, KPI or metric definition, value realization

Preferred Qualifications:

MBA Preferred

Finance and Performance Analytics Enabling Technologies (Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle EPM Cloud, SAP SAC, SAP Group Reporting, Workday - Adaptive Insights, Planful, Board, Tagetik or other EPM enabling technology)

Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Desire to work in a process first enabling technology environment

Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $163,000 to $434,000 Colorado $163,000 to $375,000 Connecticut $163,000 to $375,000 District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300 Illinois $150,900 to $375,000 Maine $138,800 to $319,400 Maryland $163,000 to $375,000 Massachusetts $163,000 to $399,300 Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000 New York $150,900 to $434,000 New Jersey $173,500 to $434,000 Ohio $150,900 to $347,200 Virginia $150,900 to $399,300 Washington $173,500 to $399,300

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