Accenture – Team Lead/Consultant-Finance Processes

Job Description

Skill required: Finance Processes – Budgeting and Forecasting
Designation: Management Level – Team Lead/Consultant
About Accenture Operations

In today’s business environment, growth isn’t just about building value-it’s fundamental to long-term business survival. So how do organizations sustain themselves? The key is a new -one that’s anchored around the customer and propelled by intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences across the enterprise at speed and at scale. You will deliver breakthrough business outcomes for clients-by harnessing talent, data and intelligence to revolutionize their operating models. Operations is one of four services that make up one Accenture -the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Technology. Visit us at What would you do?

You will be aligned with our Finance Operations vertical and will be helping us in determining financial outcomes by collecting operational data/reports, whilst conducting analysis and reconciling transactions.
You will be working as a part of Finance Processes team. The team is responsible for identifying new cross-sell opportunities, cutting report cycle time, increasing reporting accuracy and improves cash and capital forecasting. This team uses financial planning, reporting, variance analysis, budgeting and forecasting to help clients and organizations exercise and imply financial control.
The Budgeting & Forecasting team focuses on managing, coordinating and driving the finance and planning activities of the business which includes strategy development and implementation. The team is responsible for the preparation of budget, forecasting, cost analysis, variance analysis, Full Time Equivalent (FTE) headcount analysis and financial reporting. What are we looking for?
We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• Adaptable and flexible
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to establish strong client relationship
• Prioritization of workload

Roles and Responsibilities

As a team lead you will be expected to:
• Understand and effectively manage the team’s governance and performance
• Understand the level of risk & propose mitigation plans and partner with other support teams to resolve requests/issues in a timely manner
• Clearly communicate team goals and deliverables and keep the team updated on changes
• Coach team members and provide the first level advice on procedures/methods
• Solve increasingly complex problems & effectively delegate to develop and groom team members for succession planning
• Maintain client relationships interface through regular connects and emails
• Understand client priorities and problems & help translate actions for the team
• Use innovation to identify opportunities to optimize processes, decrease costs and increase client value
• Use data analytics and story-telling techniques to enhance the client journey

Please note this role may require you to work in rotational shifts.

Qualifications

BCom/MCom/Chartered Accountant/Cost And Works Accountant/Master of Business Administration