GBS Transformation & Execution Lead; Associate Director

Accenture’s Finance Reinvention Partner helps CFOs and finance leaders reinvent how finance creates and protects enterprise value—bringing together strategy, operating model, data, AI and technology to improve performance, insight, control and execution. In the UK and Ireland, the practice combines finance strategy and transformation capabilities with the enterprise platforms that enable them, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and enterprise performance management solutions.

Our GBS and Operating Model team helps clients design and implement how finance and other enterprise services should be organised and delivered across retained functions, Global Business Services, Global Capability Centres, Centres of Excellence and external service providers. We support the full transformation journey—from strategy, value case and target operating model through detailed design, mobilisation, implementation, service management and continuous improvement—embedding data, automation and AI to create scalable, resilient and value-led operations.

This is a senior transformation and execution role for an experienced GBS leader who can shape GBS strategy—or take an agreed strategy—translate it into a target operating model and value case, and lead its implementation into adopted, stable and value-generating operations. You will lead the integrated execution of the transformation across process standardisation, organisation and retained-team changes, GBS/GCC delivery, service management, technology, data, automation and AI, controls, workforce change and service migration.

Your role is to sequence and connect these elements, resolve cross-workstream dependencies and ensure that detailed implementation remains aligned with the agreed operating model.

• End-to-end GBS transformation leadership.
• At least 10 years’ relevant experience across GBS, shared services, GCC transformation, enterprise-service transformation, business transition or management consulting.
• GBS transformation architecture and roadmap.
• Experience converting strategy and target operating model into a prioritised portfolio, releases or waves, workstream scope, critical path, dependency map, investment profile and implementation roadmap.
• GBS operating and service-delivery depth.
• Strong understanding of service scope, activity placement, retained functions, Global Process Owners, Centres of Excellence, GBS/GCC delivery, service management, external providers and the governance required to connect them.
• Functional and multi-tower fluency.
• Deep Finance transformation experience —with sufficient cross-functional understanding to coordinate and challenge process and service-delivery work streams across a multi-tower GBS environment.
• Transformation programme and portfolio leadership.
• Demonstrated experience building and governing integrated transformation roadmaps, work streams, waves, stage gates, resource models, dependencies, risks, decisions and assurance.
• Work migration and operational-readiness experience.
• Strong practical experience of service transition, knowledge transfer, recruitment or workforce mobilisation, operational-readiness assessment, service acceptance, cutover, business continuity, hypercare and early-life stabilisation across multiple teams, locations or countries.
• Organisation, workforce and change capability.
• Experience translating operating-model decisions into role, capability, workforce and behavioural changes.
• Value-realisation and financial-management capability.
• Experience baselining benefits, linking work streams to value drivers, establishing accountable benefit owners, tracking investment and run-cost impacts and maintaining focus on outcomes through implementation…