Enterprise Performance Management Consultant

Accenture UK - London (London, United Kingdom)

Job Description

Role:Enterprise Performance Management Consultants
Location: London/ Manchester/ Edinburgh
Travel: 60-80%
Salary:40,000 - 60,000 + Benefits
Closing Date: 30/06/2013

Welcome to Accenture, one of the world's leading providers of management consultancy services where high performance is a minimum requirement not just an ideal.

Key features of the role

Accenture's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) practice aims to refine and optimize the CFO's ability to organize and analyze financial, operational and external information to create substantial shareholder value.

Accenture are seeking a number of EPM Consultants with experience in the following areas; Shareholder Value Analysis, Financial Metrics, Reporting & Analysis and Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting.

Key responsibilities may include:

· Helping organizations execute strategy, allowing optimal resource allocation and maximizing sustained shareholder value
· Helping organizations manage and optimize business performance across a single enterprise or business network
· Defining business models and key drivers of both current and future value - financial and non-financial, tangible and intangible and understand how these drivers interrelate
· Defining finance strategy, how strategies translate into tactics and plans, and how execution is monitored across organizational dimensions
· Monitoring achievement of strategic, financial and operational benefits, ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved and helping to adjust programs if necessary

What's in it for you?

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career

On top of this, we have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

What we're looking for

You should have a strong finance background with in depth knowledge of performance management. In addition you must have strong experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Strong finance background and experience
• Experience of defining, measuring and tracking financial KPIs
• Experience in the design, build and deploy of reporting solutions
• Experience of planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Broad understanding of core Finance processes, organisational structure and technology solutions
• Specific experience with the following tools: Hyperion, SAP BPC / Magnitude, IBM Cognos

What other qualifications or skills do I need?

• Excellent degree results or equivalent
• Professional Finance or Accounting Qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA) with 1st time passes desirable
• Strong problem-solving, statistical and analytical skills
• Proven training and coaching abilities
• Your base location will be London, although most of our consultants work on lengthy client engagements within the UK and Ireland. Therefore you must be willing to work away from home Monday to Friday as required.

Next steps..

If this sounds like the ideal role, career and company for you apply now

Please also note that Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity

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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 246,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is www.accenture.com .