Finance Analytics & AI Manager

Finance Analytics & AI Manager

Career level:

Manager (CL7)
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Location:

London / Manchester / Edinburgh
· Practice:
Finance Reinvention Partner (EPM)
About Finance RPWithin Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda — driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise. In the UK and Ireland, our Finance RP practice brings together finance strategy and the platforms it runs on, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM.You'd join the EPM part of the practice — a growing team reinventing enterprise performance management for finance functions, where planning and forecasting meet modern data platforms and AI.

It's a place to work across EPM, data and AI at once, close to the CFO agenda the work serves.

Why this role

This role sits at the heart of how finance plans, forecasts and decides — as the person who designs the data architecture and the AI beneath enterprise performance management. You'll shape how EPM platforms stitch together with the modern data platforms finance now runs on, and how machine learning and generative AI make planning and forecasting sharper, faster and more trusted.

You'll build real credibility across both finance planning and the data and AI behind it, on marquee programmes, alongside people who architect this work for a living.

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI. We bring together our people, deep industry expertise and technology to deliver end-to-end outcomes for clients — and Finance is one of seven Reinvention Partners at the centre of that.

Finance RP brings the CFO agenda to life for clients — stronger performance, sharper insight, and better control."Our clients want a partner that can help them reinvent—boldly, continuously and at speed… while continuously building the most client-focused, AI-enabled great place to work for our people—our Reinventors." — Julie Sweet, Chair and CEOWhat you'll bringEPM and FP&A architecture. Deep command of enterprise performance management — planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and close — and the FP&A behind it, from driver-based and rolling forecasting to scenario modelling and long-range planning.

You own end-to-end EPM solution architecture: the models, dimensions and business rules that make a planning solution hold up. And you can lead the platform-selection and architecture calls across the leading tools, from Oracle EPM to One Stream to Anaplan.

Finance data architecture and integration. A strong grasp of how EPM connects to the wider enterprise — ERP, operational systems and the modern cloud data platforms finance now runs on. You set the target finance data architecture that ties actuals, drivers, assumptions and forecasts together, and you direct the engineers who build it — fluent enough in pipelines, integration and data quality to own the design and hold the build to account.

You know how EPM sits alongside platforms like Snowflake, Palantir Foundry or Databricks as a governed data and AI foundation for finance.

AI-augmented, intelligent finance. You own the design of the AI and machine-learning use cases that make planning better — predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, automated variance analysis, AI-generated commentary and agentic planning workflows among them — and the human-in-the-loop controls that keep finance in charge of what the models produce. You know how to move a client from isolated experiments to governed, explainable capability the business trusts, directing the data scientists and AI engineers who build it without needing to be one yourself.

Leading delivery. You lead complex EPM, data and AI programmes end to end — from discovery and architecture through to deployment, adoption and hypercare — directing the functional, technical, data and change work streams across a multidisciplinary team. You act as the design authority, hold the solution to finance's requirements for control, reconciliation and auditability, and keep senior stakeholders…