About the Role
As a Finance Transformation Consultant, you will work on complex challenges for public and private sector organizations, improving their back-office functions and building expertise. You will guide clients in transforming their Finance or Procurement functions, leveraging shared services, or selecting and embedding new ERP solutions. You will provide client-side advice throughout the transformation lifecycle, from strategy to benefits realization, demonstrating initiative and a commitment to client success.
Responsibilities
- Lead or support Finance strategy development, operating model design, process and system design, and transformation planning.
- Manage Finance system developments and implementations, including vendor and Systems Integrator oversight.
- Optimize Finance processes with digital capabilities (e.g.: Oracle Fusion Cloud, SAP S4 HANA, Microsoft D365) and AI technologies.
- Provide client-side advisory support across the full transformation lifecycle.
- Support change management, employee engagement, training, and benefits realization.
Requirements
- Experience in Finance transformation programmes or Finance performance improvement projects.
- Strong consulting skills and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to work across sectors and adapt to varied client environments.
- Experience in Finance process and systems design, data migration, and reporting strategy.
- Qualified or part qualified accountant or significant experience of working in Finance functions in line management, project delivery or change supporting roles.
- Shows strong social, interpersonal, and analytical skills – and is generally seen as a strong communicator with excellent intervention and presentation skills.
- Experience creating and nurturing strong client relationships.
- Experience of operating in public and private sectors.
- A drive for personal and professional progression.
- Must be a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years for security clearance.
Skills
- Finance transformation
- Finance performance improvement
- Consulting
- Stakeholder engagement
- Finance platforms (Oracle, SAP, MS D365 or similar)
- Finance process design
- Finance systems design
- Data migration
- Reporting strategy
- Change management
- Digital capabilities
- AI technologies
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Nordics
- Netherlands
Work Type
- Hybrid working (minimum 2 days per week in office or on client site)
- Up to 5 days per week on a client site
Experience Level
- Experienced Finance Transformation and Corporate Service Consultants
Education Level
- Qualified or part qualified accountant
Benefits
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
- Opportunity to buy 5 additional days annual leave
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
