Finance Consultant

Location

UAE: This role is for Emirati nationals only as per local regulations.

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 738,000 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 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.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today's world, business leaders want to reinvent rapidly and confidently 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, 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:

Prepare and facilitate sessions on application design and process design

Apply financial concepts to translate functional requirements into function/technical solution design

Design and develop application components/objects in one of the EPM technologies (e.g. SAP, ORACLE) based on the application design

Independently troubleshoot and resolve application/functional process challenges in a timely manner; map complex processes into logical design components for future-state processes

Lead individual work streams associated with a consolidation implementation. Examples include consolidations process lead, application and unit testing lead, training lead, and UAT lead

Assist with conversion and reconciliation of financial data for consolidations

Prepare key deliverables such as design documents, test documentation, training materials and administration/procedural guides

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

Proven experience in a consulting firm aligned to financial advisory for clients

Excellent understanding of financial planning and budgeting, financial statements, forecasting, and management reporting

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Design of detailed finance processes and managing the deployment of changes in these processes

Bachelor's degree in finance. Master's degree or MBA is preferred

Knowledge of platforms (e.g. SAP, ORACLE), reporting tools (e.g. PowerBI, Tableau), digital technologies (RPA, AI, ML) and how they can affect the finance operations

Fluency in both Arabic and English is a must

Flexibility to travel

Why join us?

We offer a transparent, fast paced approach to 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

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.