Business Transformation Senior Manager

Overview

Senior manager in Accenture's Business Transformation team, driving digital and process transformation with technology and domain-led solutions for global clients.

What you'll do

• Develop transformation vision, assess vision feasibility and capability gaps, and plan journey management.
• Translate economic trends into industry competitive advantage and transform a business to enable profitable and sustainable growth.
• Evangelize Business Transformation solutions for clients' retained and outsourced organizations.
• Create customer-engaging solutions focused on end-to-end transformation, resulting in "Future Ready" operations.
• Maintain a strong pipeline of proposals through enhanced stakeholder experience and delivering business outcomes.
• Accelerate the journey to digital, data-driven, intelligent operations by bringing together digital technologies, process, and industry expertise.
• Draw data and insights from client engagement, industry, and business process expertise.
• Engage with client senior leadership on Transformation Roadmap creation, Target operating model and Optimizing Tactical Value.
• Anchor RFP responses for client needs and support detailed solution run-throughs during the sales cycle.
• Engage clients on driving automation as a strategic enabler, conveying RPA and cognition (AI/ML) components, organization structure, governance model, RACI matrix, roles, process evaluation matrix, and integration with BPM, platforms and point solutions.
• Undertake due diligence and act as a trusted advisor to internal and external stakeholders on building an ecosystem of data mining and transformation.
• Drive work orchestration through Intelligent Finance, Flexible Operating Models and Automated and Agile Workforce.
• Evangelize Finance and Accounting solutions with multiple teams within Accenture's digital ecosystem and partners, bringing them to life in demos and innovation labs.
• Understand commercial structures of transformation proposals and their impact on P&L.
• Take the Accenture Operations Digital Transformation story to clients' retained organizations and create platform-based transformation solutions.
• Apply design thinking to how operations run and how upstream and downstream processes combine in the transformation roadmap, while driving client stakeholder buy-in.
• Unlock white-space opportunities in clients' Business Transformation journeys, including new asset creation, third-party product partnerships and co-creation concept approval.
• Generate a healthy pipeline of Business Transformation proposals for existing and new accounts.
• Drive steady movement of Transformation assets and Client Value Meter in all existing accounts.

What you'll need

• Master of Business Administration.
• 15 years of strong experience in operations, consulting and digital transformation solutions focused on Finance and Accounting: Record to Report, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay.
• Years of experience: 16 to 25 years.
• Thought leader with hands-on experience and sound understanding of Order to Cash business, including upstream and downstream processes from sales initiation to order validation and delivery, with a focus on B2B processes.
• Understanding of Record to Report processes and the impact of upstream processes on them.
• Understanding of Procure to Pay processes from indexing to payment.
• Strong ERP functional skills with understanding of SAP/Oracle to adapt processes and avoid bolt-on automations.
• Strong experience in design thinking and customer journey mapping tools and frameworks, including running programs on data mining and persona mapping to arrive at end-to-end problem-solving plans.
• Ability to identify automation and improvement opportunities and create automation/transformation roadmaps.
• Well versed in industry-proven technologies and leading tools, automation, AI and analytics, with a proven track record of implementing digital solutions.
• Understanding of BPaaS and new-age disruptive technologies (blockchain, IoT) and their applicability in business processes.
• Strong consulting mindset challenging the current norm and using evolving technology solutions.
• Customer engagement and RFX support.
• Delivered large-scale end-to-end process transformation projects for global clients.
• Hold conversations with CXO / CXO-1, lead solution defense and manage ambiguous client situations.
• Excellent communication skills, result-oriented, self-driven, high energy, analytical and structured, with extensive experience managing high-performance teams and delivering large-scale transformation projects.
• Drive rigorous Balanced Scorecard metrics to evaluate performance and reduce variability and defects in critical business processes.
• People management skills.
• Consulting experience dealing with client-side CXOs, with strong focus on billability and outcomes.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt trained.
• Self-driven, go-getter, able to work on limited inputs and comfortable with unstructured responsibilities.
• Creative problem solving, adaptable to change, and able to drive the change mindset with stakeholders.
• Captives and retained organization productivity improvement.

Details

• Location: Navi Mumbai.