Finance Transition Services Specialist

Support the Finance Transition Services (FTS) practice by implementing standard finance tools and processes, enforcing operational excellence & highest compliance standards, and driving profitability growth. Through effective change management plans, FTS transforms existing or acquired financial management processes bringing them in line with Accenture standards. FTS professionals work with Senior Management throughout the firm, across all Operating Groups, Growth Platforms, and Geographies.

A Finance Transition Services (FTS) Manager can expect to lead work efforts on the following deal profiles: Large Consulting or Outsourcing contracts in start-up or sunset phase; Poorly performing financial contracts with enhanced complexity or risk; Finance integration activities on Ventures and Acquisitions / Divestitures

Key Responsibilities:

Overall job responsibilities for an FTS Manager include:

• Provide value-added financial management, analysis, and advice to client engagement and/or acquisition teams to maximize the profitability of engagements / acquisitions.
• Collaborate with client / engagement partners and acquisition executives, acquired leadership, Client Group Finance Leads (or equivalent), and other finance operations executives (including statutory accounting) to communicate the position and status of the account financial position.
• Participate in the implementation of post-merger integration processes for defining requirements, providing business insights, setting priorities, reviewing solutions, and providing planning inputs.
• Plan, oversee and drive assigned functional integration planning and execution activities for each Mergers/Ventures and Acquisition transaction.
• May integrate and interlock with other functional areas to ensure functional work stream impacts are understood and factored in the overall solution.
• Participate in the creation of documentation, tools and assets to enable reusable knowledge capital.
• Execute account financial processes to ensure the quality and integrity of contract/project financial records.

Must have:

· Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting OR Other business degree

· 3+ years of experience in a financial role

· Strong organizational and analytical skills

· Ability to be flexible and work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

· Excellent customer service skills

· Good interpersonal and teamwork skills.

· Proven ability to supervise junior team members

· Deep knowledge of business, finance and accounting fundamentals including U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

· SAP S4/ Hana experience

· Advanced Business English language (written and oral)

· Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

· Foreign Language skills on top of English (Portuguese, Spanish)

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