• Products and Resources or similar industry understanding. Experience in capital-intensive organisations or life science/products like organisations running monthly cycles. Ability to connect financial plans with operational drivers such as demand, production, capacity, assets, projects, workforce, capital expenditure, working capital and cash.
• Data, performance insight and AI. A practical understanding of planning data requirements, data quality, integration, forecast accuracy and bias, predictive forecasting and machine-learning use cases. You can translate opportunities into business and solution requirements and work effectively with data, architecture and engineering specialists.
• Workstream, stakeholder and team leadership. Confidence facilitating senior workshops, making clear recommendations, managing scope, plans, quality, risks and dependencies, and leading onshore and offshore team members. You also contribute to proposals, estimates, demonstrations, reusable assets and the development of junior colleagues.

What you'll be accountable for

• Assess current planning, budgeting, forecasting and performance-management processes, identifying root causes, improvement opportunities and priority requirements.
• Lead workshops with finance, business, operational and technology stakeholders to define decision needs, planning drivers, data requirements and future ways of working.
• Design future-state planning processes, governance, roles, controls, performance frameworks and management routines, ensuring the design is practical for users and aligned to business outcomes.
• Translate requirements into functional solution designs covering models, dimensions, hierarchies, assumptions, calculations, allocations, scenarios, workflow, security, reporting and auditability.
• Lead the planning-platform workstream through design, configuration or build, data and integration, testing, deployment and early-life stabilisation, maintaining traceability from requirement to solution.
• Connect financial planning with relevant operational and capital drivers and define the data, integration, reporting and analytics requirements needed to support them.
• Shape predictive forecasting and AI-enabled planning use cases, working with specialists to validate outputs and embed appropriate controls, transparency and human challenge.
• Manage workstream scope, plan, quality, risks, dependencies, client communications and team performance; support business readiness, training, adoption and value tracking.
• Contribute to proposals, solution demonstrations, estimates, account development and reusable Planning, Performance & Insights methods and assets.

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 approximately 791,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.

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