Strategy And Consulting Consultant

Job description / Role

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 800,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology in general and in particular in AI and Gen AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today's world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That's where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, Gen AI and Agentic architects, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client's unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

Role Overview

As a consultant within CFO and Enterprise Value (CFO&EV), you will:

• Support our clients to achieve their strategic and operational goals, introduce efficient ways of working and enhance processes and refine operating models.
• Support addressing complex and ambiguous client business challenges by applying rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques (business case); take decisions with little management oversight.
• Support design thinking workshops, showcase agile design to the client, co-develop and secure design decisions and innovative solutions in an agile manner.
• Cultivate relationships with clients during engagements and ensure business requirements and expectations are met or exceeded.
• Support business development activities including identifying opportunities, developing and presenting proposals.
• Support development of CFO&EV practice and community capabilities, such as developing tender responses, assets, and relevant thought leadership, and engage with the wider CFO&EV and other teams across Accenture.
• Continuously learn new skills and enhance your knowledge set to be able to contribute to the growth of CFO&EV as well as the wider Accenture organization.

Qualifications

What skills and experience are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree in finance and/or accounting. Master's degree or MBA is a strong plus.
• 3+ years of experience in consulting.
• Deep level of knowledge of business processes in finance and accounting, and the enablement in ERP systems.
• Good functional knowledge of key features of major ERP (SAP/Oracle) and hands-on experience (functional expertise).
• Good expertise in process digitization (RPA, ML, process mining), with experience on the ground with some of the cutting-edge solutions such as AI and Gen AI process enriched process automation.
• Experience in delivering—as a team member—finance transformation projects where ERP implementation and process automation are key enablers (process design, functional specs, user support).
• Ability and willingness to interact across service groups (e.g., technology for system implementation).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high commitment to quality client service.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills with the capacity to interact autonomously with client middle management.
• Fluent in English; Arabic is a benefit.
• Strong expertise in MS Office—particularly MS PowerPoint and MS Excel.
• Experience in client proposals, RFP responses and support the preparation of C-level decks.

Additional expertise in any of the activities below is a benefit:

• Design finance business processes (OTC, PTP, RTR) to be enabled by ERP (SAP/Oracle).
• Design of the chart of accounts.
• Expertise in financial consolidation (statutory reporting).
• Design controlling model, identifying key reporting dimensions.
• Financial statement (P&L, balance sheet and cash flow) reconciliation.
• Design key design decision documents.
• Delegation of authority review in alignment with the new processes.
• Identify key impacts on the operating model.
• Support in the preparation of status reports.
• Support preparation of the value case for finance transformation.

Why Join Us?

• We offer a transparent, fast-paced career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues.
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools.
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards.
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends.
• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live.