Life Sciences Finance Reinvention Partner - Manager

Location: Chicago, Accenture Tower, Corp

We Are

Life Sciences Finance Reinvention Partner works with Finance executives to drive value across the enterprise. As Finance leaders move into business partner roles, they need processes, technology and people to help drive efficiencies, manage costs, improve profitability, and identify new areas of opportunity. We’ve got the deep industry experience, functional proficiency, insightful analytics, and the digital technology leadership to help our clients reinvent themselves. Whether we are driving process reinvention through agentic AI, transforming the digital core, or harnessing the power of GenAI, we solve our clients’ toughest problems.

You are

A finance transformation leader with deep exposure to Life Sciences business models, capable of advising Finance leadership across all end-to-end Finance processes including Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, FP&A, Tax, and Treasury, with a focus on industry specific R&D, Commercial, and Supply Chain Finance domains. You bring hand-on experience translating operating complexity into scalable finance processes, data models, and enabling technologies in Pharma, MedTech / Medical Devices and Medical Distribution industries.

The work

Help clients modernize their finance functions by consulting with internal and external teams to set vision, strategy, goals, and key outcomes.

Clinical / R&D Finance transformation including portfolio prioritization and pipeline strategy and trial cost planning and management

Commercial Finance, including Gross to Net Finance sales initiatives

Supply Chain Finance initiatives, including standard cost design and integration of manufacturing, quality, and finance data

Understand the client’s challenges and use knowledge of related leading practices, to provide solutions to complex business problems

Serve as a Subject Matter Advisor for other Accenture projects and proposals based on your area of expertise to drive business development activities.

Manage risk, project economics, deliverable content, and ensure client buy-in.

Be a trusted advisor to leadership.

Encourage innovation from team members; support their ideas and career goals.

Create strategies and blueprints that use advanced operating models, processes, and emerging technologies to improve operations and re-define how work gets done

Oversee clients’ digital transformations, help them drive efficiency, effectiveness, experience, and growth: identify needed skillsets, data, operating models, process automation, analytics, workflows, and enabling technology (i.e. FinTech apps, AI/ML/GenAI/Agentic AI, etc).

Find modern technology and data solutions for clients and share best practices across the industry.

Help Grow the practice by participating in key business development activities and cycles

Stay on top of current trends, technologies, and regulations influencing digital finance, analytics, and the CFO ecosystem.

Drive incremental sales by leading and assembling the requisite teams to respond to proposals

Here’s what you need

• Minimum 5 years of finance management consulting experience
• Minimum 5 years of functional experience in Finance operations, such as Financial Close, External Reporting, Intercompany, Consolidations, Order-to-Cash or Invoice-to-Pay, FP&A, etc
• Minimum 3 years of experience with leading finance ERP/EPM platforms (i.e. SAP, Oracle, Workday, Anaplan, OneStream)
• Minimum 3 years of experience leading projects and/or small to mid-size teams (10-15 people)
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with Finance function, operating models and supporting organization structures, (analytics, forecasting, core finance)
• Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Economics, Finance, or Business Administration

Bonus points if

Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with clients, lead client workshops, document requirements, and articulate the value proposition and business case

Solid understanding of the and process best practices (Designing finance, accounting, planning, forecasting, reporting solutions)

Demonstrated ability to clearly communicate with clients, lead client workshops, document requirements, and articulate the value proposition and business case

Experience or understanding of automation, including RPA, Applied Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, GenAI, or Agentic AI for Finance

You’ve worked with these FinTech solutions: Anaplan, Hyperion, BPC, OBIEE, Tableau, and Fusion

You’re a pro when it comes to improving engagement – for the business, a practice, or people development

You’re a great leader or functional team member on ERP implementations and know your way around SAP, Oracle, and/or Workday

You have worked with Finance function enabling technologies such as Blackline, Workiva, and Trintech

You have defined and shaped a company’s financial, management, or regulatory reporting; and / or have experience developing Finance Master Data strategy

You’ve got an MBA after your name or another type of advanced degree or an accounting designation (i.e., CPA, CA, etc.)

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