Client Financial Management Analyst

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Professionals in our Corporate Functions run and manage Accenture's internal operations and all activities across our business, from finance, HR and legal to workplace management, operations and marketing and communications. They are the engine that powers Accenture, enabling us to provide the capabilities and expertise that clients need to help them become high-performance businesses.

Finance professionals prepare and interpret financial plans and reports, ensuring accuracy and compliance with applicable financial rules and regulations, including internal financial controls, to mitigate risk for the company. May also shape and execute client deals to maximize the use of Accenture's capital and resources, manage cash and/or liaise with the investor community.

Role Summary:

The Client Financial Management (CFM) Analyst supports the global financial management function and business advisory services. This role offers services through contract completion on regulatory and organization principles compliance, internal controls, budgeting/forecasting, contract profit and loss management and advisory to our customer leadership teams and corporate leadership. This position delivers services around the globe through a network of financial professionals via help-desk support, shared service operations and customer-dedicated on-site support.

Key Responsibilities:

This role exists across multiple career levels and/or functions and depending on the functional requirements of the role, some or all of the following key responsibilities will apply:

· Provide value-added financial management, analysis, and advice to client engagement teams to maximize the profitability of engagements
· Collaborate with client and engagement executives, Client Group Finance Leads (or equivalent), and other finance operations executives to communicate the position and status of contract or account financial position
· Execute account financial processes to ensure the quality and integrity of engagement financial records
· Provide pricing/ new business support for new and extended business opportunities and/or review pricing calculations from engagement executives
· Perform or assist with the preparation of engagement, project, and program reporting as well as Accenture internal financial accounting processes
· Support and execute the account forecasting process, including ad hoc and internal stakeholder management requests
· Execute all global and local statutory, tax, internal controls, and US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) requirements as described by policy to ensure full compliance
· Execute Inventory and Receivables management, including monitoring of variances and follow-up on discrepancies
· Execute/assist with balance sheet accountability, including tracking of capital assets and technology rental equipment, hardware/software costs, and other items
· Execute standard Month To Date (MTD) / Quarter To Date (QTD) financial and operational activities and processes
· Execute invoicing and collections, consistent with contractual requirements
· Advise/assist on forecast management activities (input collection, processing and report creation)
· Perform/assist with work plan reconciliation and reporting
· Track and report time-reporting hours, expenses, and variances as required, including compliance with account/engagement expense policy (if existent)
· Track and report third-party out-of-pocket expenses, client time and expenses against program budget, and any other expense charges to program budget tracking and reporting of third-party out-of-pocket expenses
· Contribute to the CFM organization as Value Creator, People Developer, & Business Operator
· Prepare and participate in CFM meetings and training sessions
· Supervise, coach, and mentor junior CFM Analyst(s) and others
· Identify and communicate to CFM leadership to opportunities to continuously improve training, methodologies, tools and skills
· Support and contribute to local CFM recruiting initiatives

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Professional Skill Requirements:

·  Bachelor in Accounting or related
·  Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
·  Ability to be flexible and work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
·  Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
·  Excellent customer service skills
·  Strong organizational and analytical skills
·  Working knowledge of business, finance and accounting fundamentals including US GAAP
·  Planning, forecasting and budgeting
·  Attention to detail
·  PC literate (e.g., working knowledge of MS Office Programs)
·  Professional Certifications may also be required in certain geographies (i.e. CIMA/ ACCA or ACA)

You will 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 teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career

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, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.