Strategic Finance Delivery - Senior Consultant in London

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting‑edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Finance & Enterprise Value (F&EV) is the finance strategy & transformation advisory practice within Enterprise Model & Strategy (EM&S), part of the Corporate Experience capability unit at Capgemini Invent. We help CFOs and senior leaders identify, convert, and sustain value across the enterprise.

Our practice comprises three work areas:

• Value Strategy & Modelling (VSM): Business case development, value realisation planning and shaping of outcome based commercial structures for major client decisions and deals.
• Strategic Finance Delivery: Connects strategy to performance by building integrated planning, forecasting, cost management, and finance delivery capabilities that strengthen decision‑making and operational efficiency.
• Finance Transformation: Modernises finance functions through intelligent process redesign, future‑ready operating models, and integration/separation support to create scalable, digital, insight‑driven finance operations.

As a Senior Consultant, you will have substantial expertise in Strategic Finance Delivery, whilst also being able to work flexibly across the wider Enterprise Model & Strategy portfolio. In this role you will contribute to the practice as follows:

• Lead the delivery of large and complex Strategic Finance Improvement or transformation projects, collaborating with clients and teams to rapidly define business challenges and shape actionable solutions grounded in strategic thinking and evidence‑based insights.
• Develop and present meaningful recommendations, ensuring they are practical, robust, and withstand client scrutiny while leveraging the latest strategic transformation trends.
• Build and maintain strong, long‑lasting client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor at all levels and identifying business development opportunities across operating model transformation, and organisation design.
• Coach and develop team members, providing performance management, fostering leadership, and supporting recruitment to grow the team.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development: Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal Contribution: Campaign development, internal think‑tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & Development: Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications, etc.

To succeed in the role, you will bring the following experience & attributes:

• Consulting Expertise: Strong background in management consulting, with a proven ability to build and guide teams, mobilise workstreams, and deliver projects successfully.
• Proven experience shaping actionable finance strategies, designing finance target operating models, and developing performance architectures that link strategy to measurable business outcomes.
• Strategic Thinking, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management & Communication: Ability to quickly understand complex business challenges and shape evidence‑based solutions that deliver meaningful impact.
• Strong analytical skills, ensuring recommendations are grounded in robust data and stand up to senior‑level scrutiny.
• Confident working with senior executives, able to build trusted relationships and secure alignment for transformation initiatives.
• Execution & Delivery: Skilled in structuring, planning, and leading delivery of project workstreams.
• Experience contributing to service redesign or transformation programmes, particularly those enhancing customer or user experience through digital tools and capabilities.
• Business Development & Practice Growth: Comfortable identifying new opportunities, expanding client relationships, and supporting sales activities.
• Experience helping to shape compelling value propositions, proposals, or thought leadership that drives growth.
• Credibility as a Finance Professional: A fully qualified UK Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or currently progressing toward qualification and on track to complete within the next 12 months.
• Strong technical grounding and the ability to translate finance strategy into actionable solutions.
• Desirable Experience: Experience in one or more of the following areas is beneficial: Designing or delivering solutions that successfully leverage Artificial Intelligence. Working with finance teams in large, complex or global organisations, including familiarity with modern finance organisation principles and ways of working.

You’ll join a forward‑thinking, collaborative environment that thrives on innovation, curiosity and co‑creation. You’ll work on cutting‑edge digital transformation projects, using the latest tools and technologies to solve complex challenges and deliver meaningful impact. Along the way, you’ll build strong relationships across Capgemini and with clients and technology partners, collaborating to create high‑value solutions. With opportunities to work across industries and capabilities, every project brings something new—offering continuous professional and personal growth.

While you’ll benefit from the scale and reach of a global organisation, you’ll also enjoy the close‑knit, supportive culture of a local team that’s genuinely committed to your development and success.

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work‑life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained “Mental Health Champions” across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester, Newcastle or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market‑leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who: Declare they have a disability, and Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.