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Management Consulting Finance Transformation Shared Service Principal Director

Accenture

Accenture

Accounting & Finance
Posted on Aug 25, 2025

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 800,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology in general and in particular in AI and Gen AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, Gen AI and Agentic architects, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

In this role you will:

  • Advise clients end-to-end on digital process transformation, Global business service, Shared Services, CoEs

  • Lead client engagements and be accountable for their successful delivery and client impact

  • Work with the latest technologies to solve problems related to intelligent finance solutions

  • Lead assessments on how GenAI and Agentic architecture can be leveraged to generate efficiencies and improve customer satisfaction

  • Organization structure design, working capital optimization, strategic cost optimization, post-merger integration, carveouts, treasury operations, etc.

  • Understand and solve complex business problems and present solutions to stakeholders

  • Be agile and agnostic to solutions as you work with different client circumstances and at an ever-increasing pace

  • Work along with our global clients, with opportunities to travel

  • Share point of view on industry trends

  • Lead development of sales proposals and offerings

  • Contribute as financial / Global business service/Shared service/CoEs SME knowledge to a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders

  • Work closely with the Finance Intelligence Operations Risk practice community and build a network across Accenture and clients

  • Management of a sales pipeline and lead the bid / proposal process

Functional Skills

  • Management of complex Shared Services Design & Transition

  • Global business/ Shared service/ CoE advisory

  • Maturity Assessment

  • Operating Model Design

  • Business Process Design

  • Process re-engineering

  • GenAI and Agentic architecture

  • Service Management & Governance

  • Program Management

  • Transition Management

  • Change Management

  • Digital transformation

  • Org. structure design

  • Strategic cost optimization

  • Post-merger integration

  • Working capital optimization

  • Treasury operations

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  • Basic Qualifications

  • 12+ years of combined finance and strategic consulting experience

  • Bachelor’s degree

  • Preferred knowledge of health & Public Sector or Banking

  • Arabic speaker preferred

Why join us?

  • We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

  • You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

  • Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

  • You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

  • You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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About Accenture

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.Join Accenture to work at the heart of change.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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