Finance Operating Model & GBS Senior Manager

Career level: Senior Manager (CL6)

Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh

Practice: Finance Reinvention Partner (Operating Model)

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, the operating model that runs it, and the platforms beneath it — spanning SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM.

Why this role

This is a lead role for a finance operating-model and GBS architect — someone who can sit with a CFO, take a whole finance function from strategy through transformation, and run the programme self-sufficiently in front of the client. You'll design the target operating model and the service-delivery model that runs it, put AI and agents at the core rather than bolted on, and carry the organisation through the change. You'll own the design, grow the accounts you work on, and shape how we take finance operating-model and intelligent-operations transformation to market.

What you'll bring

• Finance operating-model and GBS design: Deep, hands-on design of the finance target operating model, end to end — the service-delivery model (retained, shared services, global business services (GBS), outsourced and managed services, and the judgement to choose between them), location strategy and delivery footprint, organisation design across spans, layers, roles and structure, and global process ownership across Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash.
• Intelligent and autonomous finance: This is finance transformation built for where AI is heading. The role designs operating models with AI and agents as first-class citizens — bringing intelligent operations and autonomous process design (agents rather than bots).
• The commercial and value case: You make the case for change in enterprise-value terms: the cost-to-serve case and the benchmarking behind it, a business and benefits case a CFO can back, and the service-management design — SLAs, KPIs and governance.
• Leading the programme: You run finance operating-model and GBS transformations self-sufficiently with clients — that independence is what sets a Senior Manager apart here.
• Growing the work: You originate and shape new work, help develop the offering, and build the reusable assets and points of view that grow the practice.

Ways of working

We're 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.

Who you are

You lead with authority and earn trust fast with CFOs and senior finance leaders. You can hold a whole finance operating model in your head — the processes, the people, the technology and the economics — and keep it coherent under pressure.

Things that set strong candidates apart

• A track record leading finance operating-model and GBS transformations end to end, self-sufficiently with clients.
• The appetite and aptitude to lead finance into intelligent, AI-and-agent-led operations.
• Grounding in the finance function itself — close, controls, reporting and data integrity as they shape operating-model choices.
• A professional finance or accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent industry experience).

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.