About the Role
Accenture's Finance Reinvention practice helps CFOs and finance leaders transform their organizations into engines of value creation by combining deep finance domain expertise, industry knowledge, and cutting-edge technology. We reimagine what finance can do, partnering with clients from strategy through execution to modernize operating models, unlock data-driven insights, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Works on one or multiple assigned strategic client pursuits and lead a complex delivery at rapid pace to meet client needs and agreed upon contractual objectives
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery of the project as accountable delivery leader across business, process, and technical objectives at required contract metrics
- Own the end-to-end technical and functional architecture of EPM implementations across consolidation, planning, reporting, and close management
- Lead discovery workshops with CFO, Controller, and finance leadership to capture business requirements and translate them into architectural blueprints
- Design comprehensive EPM application architecture including cube structure, dimensionality, workflow profiles, security models, and data integration frameworks
- Establish platform governance standards, coding best practices, and solution design principles across all development workstreams
- Design and deliver a Total Enterprise architecture including necessary cross functional integration architecture between EPM and upstream/downstream systems including ERP, HCM, CRM, and data warehouses
- Evaluate and select Marketplace solutions, custom extensions, and third-party tools aligned with business needs
- Lead technical and functional reviews, ensuring solution quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Serve as escalation point for complex technical and functional issues during implementation and post-go-live
- Transform user requirements into a comprehensive EPM design utilizing object-oriented principles to create fully extensible applications
- Lead clients and team members through all aspects of consulting and delivery phases including discovery, visioning, blueprinting, requirement gathering, design, process transformation, system configuration, testing, deployment, support, and value realization
- Grow the practice by owning the new business proposal process — business case creation, SOW preparation, RFP responses, driving client conversations and presentations to develop business opportunities
- Manage resource supply and demand planning for both in-flight and upcoming projects
- Guide and mentor project resources across project(s)
- Establish and manage EPM Center of Excellence (COE) to serve global client needs from concept to commissioning
- Develop and own methods, standards, best practices to continuously improve the COE
- Manage the Talent plan, Training and Certifications required to differentiate our talent advantage
- Develop Lessons Learned repository that serves as a direct input to our best practices refinement and enrichment
- Own and maintain Industry specific assets including defining and creating new assets as required
- Manage the work in-take process, allocate resources, coordinate with Industry and Account teams to ensure a compelling, winning proposal is developed, presented to the clients resulting into an executable contract
- Collaborate with Partner resources to align and manage deal mechanics aligned to Accenture business pursuit guidelines
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience designing and developing EPM solutions, including at least 3 full lifecycle enterprise implementations
- Minimum of 5 years performance management consulting (Consolidations or Planning) experience
- Minimum of 5 year experience in COE establishment & management (EPM Platform)
- Minimum of 3 years experience leading & facilitating requirement and design workshops
- Minimum of 3 years of Industry Expertise/Knowledge in key strategic areas (Manufacturing/Retail, Financial Services, and Energy)
- Minimum of 2 years of EPM transformational experience (a thorough understanding of the EPM platform functionality and capabilities)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience)
- If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
- Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration
- Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process
- At Accenture a criminal conviction history is not an absolute bar to employment
Skills
- EPM Techno-Functional Solution Architect
- End-to-end design, build, implementation, and maintenance experience
- Deep industry and finance process knowledge
- Articulate effective, scalable solutions that bring together strategy, technology, and people
- Platform design decisions
- Integration strategy
- Solution quality
- Technical architecture
- Functional finance knowledge
- Enterprise-grade implementations
- Client delivery skills
- Establishing and managing forward looking Center of Excellence (COE)
- Mentoring cross-functional practice team
- Develop, maintain and continuously improve best practices for COE, Client delivery, Platform expertise and Industry knowledge
- Collaborating across global teams, internal stakeholders, Partner and Client leaders
- Obtaining and sustaining referenceable clients based on successful delivery of high-quality EPM solutions
- OneStream Certified (OPC) or willing to get certified
- Lead Architect or Core Platform Architect
- Completed one of the OneStream application build courses
- Completed any OneStream level 2 courses
- Sensible AI training/experience
- Experience designing and/or developing OneStream modules
- Experience designing and/or developing solutions with similar planning and analytics technologies
- Proven success in contributing to a collaborative environment
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
- Desire to work in an information systems environment
- Desire to learn modern technologies like AI/ML and how they augment EPM
- Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skill
Location
- California
- Cleveland
- Colorado
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New York
- New Jersey
- Virginia
- Washington
Work Type
- Client & Market facing (60% approx.)
- Build and Maintain a COE (20% approx.)
- Business Development (20% approx.)
- Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 70% depending on business need and client requirements.
Experience Level
- Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience designing and developing EPM solutions
- Minimum of 5 years performance management consulting experience
- Minimum of 5 year experience in COE establishment & management
- Minimum of 3 years experience leading & facilitating requirement and design workshops
- Minimum of 3 years of Industry Expertise/Knowledge
- Minimum of 2 years of EPM transformational experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience)
- Associate’s Degree (must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience)
Salary/Compensations
- California $132,500 to $271,000
- Cleveland $122,700 to $216,800
- Colorado $132,500 to $234,100
- District of Columbia $141,100 to $249,300
- Illinois $122,700 to $234,100
- Maine $112,900 to $199,500
- Maryland $132,500 to $234,100
- Massachusetts $132,500 to $249,300
- Minnesota $132,500 to $234,100
- New York $122,700 to $271,000
- New Jersey $141,100 to $271,000
- Virginia $122,700 to $249,300
- Washington $141,100 to $249,300
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
About the Company
- 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 approximately 791,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
- Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.
- Visit us at www.accenture.com
Equal Opportunity
- We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization.
- As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.
- Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values.
- Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
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