EPM Principal Director - Utilities

A ccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 774,000 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. Visit us at accenture. com .

In Strategy & Consulting we work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world's leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization's total enterprise reinvention.

CFO-Enterprise Value, and we give finance execs the sounding board they need. Value isn't just about maintenance. It's about zeroing in on smart, sustainable ways to grow, and finding the right tools to keep everything on track. We've got the deep industry experience, the functional insights, the data power, and the digital tech leadership to help our clients make important changes. Whether we're breaking down meaningful analytics, designing the perfect finance platforms, or building from current risk and compliance models to get ready for the future, we solve our clients' toughest problems.

Key responsibilities:

• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

• Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near-term goals for area of responsibility.

• Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters.

• Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Decisions have a lasting impact on an area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside areas of responsibility.

• Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

• Minimum of 8 years of management consulting experience

• Minimum of 8 years of experience leading/managing a large team

• Minimum of 8 years of demonstrated operational expertise with one or more of the following:

• Financial Planning and Analysis (Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting or Management Reporting)

• Advanced enterprise planning, integrated business planning, scenario modeling, advanced predictive analytics

• Financial process and/or system program management responsibilities

• Solid understanding of the underlying finance and accounting processes and leading practices

• Management of a finance team function

• Management reporting & operational or balance scorecarding

• Integration projects - experience moving from a legacy to any ERP system or consolidating legacy transaction systems into single (few) enabling technologies with a focus on functional, process and/or data standardization

• Finance Transformation (Planning, Financial Reporting, EPM, Program/Project Management, Change Management, Financial Systems Integration)

• Financial Process automation, standardization, organizational consolidation (e. g. Creating, Defining Finance Centers of Excellence, automating processes through robotics or applied intelligence, machine learning)

• Reporting and analytics including visualizations, dashboards, scorecards, KPI or metric definition, value realization

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA Preferred

• Finance and Performance Analytics Enabling Technologies (Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle EPM Cloud, SAP SAC, SAP Group Reporting, Workday - Adaptive Insights, Planful, Board, Tagetik or other EPM enabling technology)

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

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

• Desire to work in a process first enabling technology environment

• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

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 in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here. (/ accenture. com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $161,200 to $434,000

Colorado $161,200 to $375,000

District of Columbia $171,700 to $399,300

New York $149,300 to $434,000

Maryland $149,300 to $347,200

Washington $171,700 to $399,300

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Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here (/ accenture. com/us-en/about/inclusion-diversity/us-workforce)

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