You Are:You are a Financial Planning and Analytics Transformation leader who helps organizations reinvent how they make decisions. Combining expertise in planning, analytics, business processes, and AI. You help clients move beyond traditional budgeting and forecasting toward connected, intelligent, and predictive planning.
You bring a unique blend of C-suite advisory experience, SAP technology expertise, and transformation leadership, enabling clients to create measurable value through data-driven decision making. You are equally comfortable engaging with CFOs and FP&A executives, leading solution architecture workshops, shaping complex pursuits, and overseeing large-scale SAP Planning transformations.
You thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving complex business challenges, and have a passion for building high-performing teams while delivering innovative planning solutions that create measurable business outcomes.
The Work:- Lead Financial Planning Reinvention programs that transform how organizations plan, forecast, allocate resources, and drive performance.
- Engage with CFOs, FP&A leaders, and business executives to identify opportunities to improve planning, forecasting, budgeting, and enterprise performance management capabilities.
- Originate, shape, and lead planning transformation opportunities from initial client discussions through proposal development, contracting, and delivery.
- Design, architect, and deliver end-to-end planning solutions leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud Planning, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Business AI, and related SAP technologies with user experience in mind.
- Lead large-scale financial planning and Enterprise Performance Management transformation programs from strategy and roadmap development through implementation and value realization.
- Guide clients in modernizing budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, capital planning, sales planning, profitability planning, and scenario modeling processes.
- Define and implement AI-enabled planning strategies leveraging SAP Business AI, SAP Joule, predictive forecasting, machine learning, scenario simulation, and intelligent automation capabilities.
- Help clients identify and prioritize AI use cases that improve forecast accuracy, planning productivity, decision intelligence, and business performance.
- Collaborate with Data & AI, Finance Transformation, Supply Chain, and Industry teams to deliver connected enterprise planning capabilities.
- Help clients develop connected financial planning capabilities that integrate forecasting, budgeting, profitability analysis, management reporting, and broader Enterprise Performance Management processes.
- Drive executive workshops and facilitate key business processes, operating model, and solution architecture decisions.
- Lead cross-functional teams across planning, analytics, data integration, reporting, testing, and change management workstreams.
- Build trusted advisor relationships with CFOs, FP&A leaders, Controllers, and business executives.
- Build thought leadership, accelerators, and innovative offerings that advance Accenture's SAP Planning, Finance Transformation, and AI capabilities.
- Mentor and develop consulting professionals while building the next generation of Finance and Planning transformation leaders.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here's What You Need:- Minimum 8 years of experience delivering Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), budgeting, forecasting, finance transformation, or related solutions.
- Minimum 5 years of experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Planning.
- Minimum 3 full lifecycle SAP Planning, SAC Planning, BPC Planning, or Enterprise Performance Management implementations.
- Experience leading planning transformation initiatives that combine process redesign, organizational change, analytics, and technology enablement.
- Experience integrating SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/BW/4HANA, SAP Datasphere, or other enterprise platforms.
- Experience managing large, geographically distributed delivery teams in a global delivery environment.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If associate's degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.
Bonus Points If:
- You have a MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or other professional Finance certification.
- You are a SAP Certified Associate in SAP Analytics Cloud (C_SAC_2601 or current successor certification), SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP S/4HANA Finance, Group Reporting, BW/4HANA, or Integrated Business Planning (IBP).
- You have experience with SAP Business AI, Joule, predictive forecasting, machine learning, intelligent automation, and generative AI technologies.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/01/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture
Role Location Annual Salary RangeCalifornia $132,500 to $302,400
Colorado $132,500 to $261,300
Connecticut $132,500 to $261,300
District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200
Illinois $122,700 to $261,300
Maine $112,900 to $222,500
Maryland $132,500 to $261,300
Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200
Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300
New York $122,700 to $302,400
New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400
Ohio $122,700 to $241,900
Virginia $122,700 to $278,200
Washington $141,100 to $278,200
