SAP S/4HANA Finance Transformation Consultant

Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh (location flexible)

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.

Why this role

This role puts you at the front of large-scale, business-led S/4HANA finance transformations — sitting with the client's finance leaders, shaping what good looks like, and carrying that design from early discovery through to a working solution at go-live. You'll own your part of the finance agenda, translate what the business needs into a design the SAP delivery teams can build, and grow quickly on marquee programmes alongside people who architect this work for a living. This is the design and advisory side of our SAP finance work — shaping the future-state process and the case for change and handing a clear blueprint to delivery, rather than a hands-on configuration role.

What you'll bring

• Your finance transformation expertise. Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA finance transformations, in consulting or in industry.
• You can take a client's business strategy and finance objectives and turn them into S/4HANA-enabled process designs across Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay and the related finance domains.
• You lead and contribute to fit-to-standard and design decisions, balancing SAP best practice against the client's specific value, control and operating-model needs, and you use structured analysis and value-led recommendations to work through complex, ambiguous problems.
• Delivering across the programme. Hands-on experience across the phases of an S/4HANA programme — discovery and envisioning, fit-to-standard and design, business integration and testing, and deployment and stabilisation.
• You bring a solid understanding of period-end close, finance controls and reporting in an S/4HANA environment, and you can use the platform's capabilities to simplify and standardise how finance runs.
• You act as the bridge between business and technology, working closely with SAP delivery and integration teams while keeping ownership of the finance and business agenda.
• Working with finance stakeholders. You're comfortable facilitating workshops with senior finance stakeholders to define future-state processes, co-developing and securing design decisions, and aligning finance, tax, operations and technology around them.
• You build trusted relationships and have the credibility to challenge and influence finance leaders on the calls that matter.

Ways of working

We're increasingly an AI-first delivery team — bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, analyse and validate, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome.

Who you are

You take ownership and follow through, and you're comfortable in the ambiguity that comes with complex client organisations. You work well in a team, build trusted relationships across finance, operations and technology, and communicate clearly — you can run a discovery session with a client and explain a design call to a mixed room with equal ease. You bring good judgement and critical thinking to problems that don't arrive fully formed.

Things that set strong candidates apart:

• Experience of S/4HANA finance transformations in complex environments (multi-country, multi-entity, or integrated ERP landscapes).
• Familiarity with fit-to-standard delivery and SAP Activate methods.
• Experience designing finance processes with controls, compliance and data integrity built in.
• An understanding of how intercompany, transfer pricing, tax or treasury concepts interact with core finance.
• Experience across both public and private cloud S/4HANA programmes.
• 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. This role involves flexibility and travel — you'll spend time onsite with our clients and partners to deliver the first-class services we're known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society.