GBS Finance Operating Model Consultant

About Finance Reinvention Partner 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.

Why this role

This role supports the redesign of how Record-to-Report (R2R) and controllership services are organised and governed across group and local finance, GBS/GCC, Centres of Excellence, outsourcing partners and technology. You will help clients improve close performance, accounting quality, controls and service delivery while preserving clear statutory and fiduciary accountability.

At its core, this is an operating-model and process-transformation role. The Consultant brings sufficient R2R depth to analyse current-state issues, develop credible design options and translate approved decisions into detailed process, control, service and technology requirements.

The expertise you'll bring

Finance process expertise and operating-model transformation experience. Relevant Finance process expertise across one or more Finance towers, for example Record-to-Report (R2R/RTR), Procure-to-Pay (P2P/PTP), Order-to-Cash (O2C/OTC), FP&A or another Finance process area. 4+ years in controllership, finance transformation, GBS/GCC, ERP-enabled change or consulting, with hands-on ownership of defined analysis or design deliverables and exposure to improvement or transformation through design and into implementation, readiness or service transition.

GBS and service-delivery exposure. Experience supporting decisions on retained and local-finance versus GBS scope, Global Process Owner and Centre of Excellence roles, organisation, governance, service levels, interfaces, transition and continuous-improvement requirements, including BPO or managed services where relevant.

Technology and data fluency. Ability to understand how enterprise platforms, data and digital capabilities shape a GBS operating model—not just how individual systems work. Connect working knowledge of ERP-enabled R2R transformation and close, reconciliation, consolidation, workflow, process-mining and analytics capabilities.

Automation, AI and auditability. A working understanding of how automation and AI can reshape R2R activities, including journal preparation, reconciliation matching, exception detection, close orchestration and narrative reporting. You can help assess which activities are suitable for automation or AI enablement, where finance judgement and accountability must remain with people, and how roles, decision rights, hand-offs and exception management should change.

Client, team and sector capability. Strong facilitation and presentation skills, analysis, process-mapping, documentation and stakeholder management; confidence in contributing in client workshops and owning defined deliverables; and experience in Consumer Goods & Services, Utilities and/or Energy.

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