Finance Analytics & AI Manager

Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh

About Finance RP

Within Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda — driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise. In the UK and Ireland, our Finance RP practice brings together finance strategy and the platforms it runs on, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM. You'd join the EPM part of the practice — a growing team reinventing enterprise performance management for finance functions, where planning and forecasting meet modern data platforms and AI.

Why this role

This role sits at the heart of how finance plans, forecasts and decides — as the person who designs the data architecture and the AI beneath enterprise performance management. You'll shape how EPM platforms stitch together with the modern data platforms finance now runs on, and how machine learning and generative AI make planning and forecasting sharper, faster and more trusted. You'll build real credibility across both finance planning and the data and AI behind it, on marquee programmes, alongside people who architect this work for a living.

What You'll Bring

• EPM and FP&A architecture: Deep command of enterprise performance management — planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and close — and the FP&A behind it, from driver-based and rolling forecasting to scenario modelling and long-range planning. You own end-to-end EPM solution architecture: the models, dimensions and business rules that make a planning solution hold up. And you can lead the platform-selection and architecture calls across the leading tools, from Oracle EPM to OneStream to Anaplan.
• Finance data architecture and integration: A strong grasp of how EPM connects to the wider enterprise — ERP, operational systems and the modern cloud data platforms finance now runs on. You set the target finance data architecture that ties actuals, drivers, assumptions and forecasts together, and you direct the engineers who build it — fluent enough in pipelines, integration and data quality to own the design and hold the build to account.
• AI-augmented, intelligent finance: You own the design of the AI and machine-learning use cases that make planning better — predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, automated variance analysis, AI-generated commentary and agentic planning workflows among them — and the human-in-the-loop controls that keep finance in charge of what the models produce.
• Leading delivery: You lead complex EPM, data and AI programmes end to end — from discovery and architecture through to deployment, adoption and hypercare — directing the functional, technical, data and change workstreams across a multidisciplinary team.
• Growing the work: You build trusted relationships with CFOs, finance leaders, CIOs and chief data officers; you originate and shape EPM, finance-transformation, data and AI opportunities; and you help develop the offering, the reusable assets and the points of view that grow the practice.

Ways of working

We're increasingly an AI-first delivery team — bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, analyse and deliver, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome. If you already work this way, that's a real plus, and we're keen to hear from people bringing that experience.

Who You Are

You take ownership and lead from the front. You're a strong client-facing consultant, comfortable with CFOs, controllers, FP&A leaders and senior technology stakeholders, and you can turn complex finance, data and technology topics into clear business recommendations. You lead multidisciplinary and distributed teams well, bring good judgement and structured problem-solving to ambiguous problems, and communicate clearly under pressure. You develop the people around you and you're known for sound, decisive calls.

Things that set strong candidates apart:

• A track record delivering EPM programmes end to end;
• Hands-on experience with one or more leading EPM platforms (Oracle EPM, OneStream or Anaplan);
• Experience integrating EPM with modern data platforms — Snowflake, Palantir Foundry or Databricks;
• A track record of data, analytics or AI-enabled finance solutions, including predictive forecasting and generative or agentic use cases;
• Familiarity with SQL, APIs and modern data-integration technologies, and some exposure to Python or ML platforms;
• Relevant EPM, cloud-data or AI certifications;
• A professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent industry experience).

If you have most of this and the drive to build the rest, we want to hear from you — tell us what you'd bring.

What's In It For You

Alongside a competitive salary and package (dependent on experience), you'll have an extensive benefits package including 30 days' holiday a year, private medical insurance, and 3 additional days' leave a year for charitable work of your choice. Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society.