GBS FP&A Operating Model (Consultant)

Overview

In this role, you will redesign FP&A services across corporate, business-facing finance, and GBS/GCC to create a scalable, standardised planning and insight capability. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to balance governance, business proximity, and accountability while embedding data, automation and AI. The position sits within Accenture’s Finance Reinvention practice, contributing to value-led operating models for enterprise finance. You’ll lead workshops, shape target designs, and guide adoption in multi-country or matrixed environments. This is an opportunity to influence how finance supports strategic decisions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Assess current FP&A operating model and service portfolio, including governance, cycles, capacity and data dependencies
• Design target FP&A operating model with clear roles, decision rights, and service catalogues
• Define interactions across central FP&A, business units, GBS/GCC and external providers
• Specify standard FP&A activities and performance measures (planning, budgeting, forecasting, KPI frameworks)
• Evaluate data, technology, automation, and AI implications for the future model
• Translate operating-model decisions into requirements for EPM, ERP, analytics and AI capabilities
• Build business case, benefits, and roadmap with adoption and value-realisation measures
• Lead FP&A operating-model workstream, manage workshops, risks, and deliverables

Key requirements

• 4+ years in FP&A, finance transformation, GBS/GCC or consulting with leadership of a significant FP&A workstream
• Strong depth in strategic planning, budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario planning, KPI frameworks, variance and root-cause analysis
• Experience analysing activities and distributing work across corporate finance, BU finance, GBS/GCC and Centres of Excellence
• Understanding of data, ERP, EPM, analytics, workflow and AI in FP&A contexts
• Ability to lead workshops, design operating-models, and manage stakeholder engagement
• Experience in Consumer Goods & Services, Utilities or Energy sectors is a plus
• Familiarity with multi-country or matrixed organisations
• Recognised finance qualification such as CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent, or substantial FP&A experience
• Experience with capital-intensive or high-volume planning environments

• facilitation and presentation
• stakeholder management
• process-mapping and documentation
• FP&A
• finance transformation
• enterprise performance management (EPM)

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