CFOEV Principal Director

About the role

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 provides finance executives with the sounding board they need to pursue smart, sustainable growth and the tools to keep everything on track. We combine deep industry experience, functional insights, data power, and digital technology leadership to help clients make important changes—whether breaking down meaningful analytics, designing optimal finance platforms, or evolving risk and compliance models for the future.

Responsibilities

• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis 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, negotiating or influencing on significant matters.
• Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments, with decisions that have a lasting impact on an area of responsibility and potential to impact outside areas.
• Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 10 years of management consulting experience
• Minimum of 10 years of experience leading/managing a large team
• Minimum of 10 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 underlying finance and accounting processes and leading practices
  • Management of a finance team function
  • Management reporting & operational or balanced 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 or 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

Pay

Compensation varies depending on office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Below are annual salary ranges for select locations:

• California: $163,000 to $434,000
• Cleveland: $150,900 to $347,200
• Colorado: $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
• Virginia: $150,900 to $399,300
• Washington: $173,500 to $399,300

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off