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About the Role
Accenture's Finance Reinvention Partner helps CFOs and finance leaders reinvent how finance creates and protects enterprise value by integrating strategy, operating model, data, AI, and technology. The Planning, Performance & Insights team transforms client planning, forecasting, resource allocation, performance management, and decision-making processes using data, analytics, and modern planning technologies. This role offers the opportunity to build deep expertise in enterprise planning, modern performance management technology, and data-led decision support.
Responsibilities
- Document current planning processes, calendars, roles, systems, controls, data flows and pain points using interviews, workshops and available evidence.
- Gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into process maps, user stories, functional requirements and model-design inputs.
- Analyse financial and operational data to identify key drivers, trends, dependencies and opportunities to improve planning and performance insight.
- Configure or support the configuration of planning models, including dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, calculations, allocations, scenarios, workflow, security and reporting.
- Support data preparation, migration, integration, reconciliation, system testing, user acceptance testing and defect resolution, ensuring outputs are complete and traceable.
- Develop planning reports, dashboards, variance analysis and forecast-quality measures that help users understand what changed, why it changed and what action may be required.
- Support predictive-forecasting and machine-learning use cases by preparing data, testing outputs, documenting assumptions and working with specialists and business users to validate results.
- Prepare process documentation, training materials and user guidance, and support deployment, adoption, post-go-live activities and continuous improvement.
- Take ownership of assigned deliverables and contribute to proposals, demonstrations, market research and reusable Planning, Performance & Insights assets.
Requirements
- Experience participating in or supporting a budgeting, forecasting or long-range planning process, with an understanding of how operational drivers affect the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
- At least 4 years of relevant experience either in process and/or planning platform.
- Ability to document planning calendars, activities, roles, controls, systems and data flows.
- Ability to gather requirements through interviews and workshops.
- Ability to convert findings into clear process maps, user stories and functional documentation.
- Hands-on experience with, or strong exposure to, at least one modern planning platform - such as SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Pigment, CCH Tagetik, Oracle EPM or OneStream.
- Ability to support model configuration across dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, calculations, allocations, workflow, security and reporting.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills.
- Experience preparing, reconciling and validating data.
- Experience investigating actual-to-plan variances.
- Experience developing reports or dashboards that explain performance and support decisions.
- Experience or project exposure within Products and/or Resources organisations, ideally where planning is influenced by demand, production, assets, projects, workforce, supply chain or capital expenditure.
- An understanding of how predictive forecasting, trend analysis, anomaly detection and machine learning can support planning.
- Curiosity to test outputs, question assumptions and explain how insights should be used.
- Ability to work effectively across finance, business, data and technology teams.
- Ability to produce clear client-ready outputs.
- Ability to manage your own commitments.
- Ability to communicate progress, risks and findings with confidence.
Skills
- Planning
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Long-range planning
- Process analysis
- Requirements gathering
- Functional documentation
- Modern planning platform configuration (SAP Analytics Cloud, Anaplan, Pigment, CCH Tagetik, Oracle EPM, OneStream)
- Data analysis
- Performance insight
- Reporting
- Dashboard development
- Variance analysis
- Predictive forecasting
- Machine learning awareness
- Collaborative delivery
Experience Level
- At least 4 years of relevant experience
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 believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
- Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.