GBS FP&A Operating Model; Consultant

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 role redesigns how FP&A services are organised and delivered across corporate FP&A, business-facing finance, GBS/GCC and Centres of Excellence. You will help clients create a scalable model that standardises repeatable planning, reporting and insight production while preserving the business proximity, judgement and accountability needed for effective decision support.

Relevant FP&A and operating-model transformation experience.

At least 4 years’ relevant experience across FP&A, business finance, finance transformation, GBS/GCC or consulting, with evidence of leading a significant FP&A operating-model, planning, reporting or performance‑management workstream from assessment and design into implementation readiness, adoption or transition.

Practical FP&A and business‑finance depth. Strong understanding of strategic planning, budgeting, rolling forecasting, scenario and driver‑based planning, management reporting, KPI and value‑driver frameworks, performance reviews, variance and root‑cause analysis, insight generation and finance business partnering. You understand how these capabilities support commercial and operational decisions—not simply how the processes are executed.

GBS and operating-model design. Experience analysing activities and determining how work should be distributed across corporate finance, business‑unit teams, finance business partners, GBS/GCC, Centres of Excellence and external providers. You understand service scope, retained‑versus‑delivered boundaries, governance, roles, decision rights, organisational interfaces, demand and capacity, service measures and transition implications.

Technology and data fluency. You understand how enterprise data, EPM platforms, ERP, analytics, reporting, workflow and AI shape the FP&A operating model. You can assess implications relating to planning dimensions and hierarchies, business drivers, common definitions, data ownership, quality, integration, access, reporting and governance.

Automation and AI operating-model judgement. You understand relevant applications such as forecast generation, scenario modelling, variance and root‑cause analysis, anomaly detection and narrative reporting. You can assess where automation or AI can support or perform activities, where human judgement and accountability must remain, and how roles, skills, controls, transparency, exception handling and review requirements should change.

Delivery and adoption. Ability to lead workshops, requirements, process and operating‑model design, solution traceability, testing and business readiness, training and adoption as part of an EPM or finance transformation.

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