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Management Consultant - Finance & CFO Advisory

Capgemini

Capgemini

Accounting & Finance
United Kingdom
Posted on Jan 15, 2025

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

Our Finance & CFO Advisory practice are looking for experienced Finance Transformation Senior Consultants, Managers and Senior Managers to join the team.


As part of our Corporate Experience practice, the Finance & CFO Advisory capability combines accounting, consulting and industry experience to focus on our client's most strategic Finance priorities. We act as strategic advisors to the Office of the CFO and a critical friend to their wider finance leadership team.


In this role you will play a key role in:

  • Contribute to strategic advice and thought leadership to clients on a wide range of finance-related topics with an emphasis on tangible value realisation and performance optimisation.
  • Lead discrete workstreams in Finance & CFO engagements or smaller end-to-end engagements, including finance transformation, operating model & organisation design, process improvement, technology implementation, and strategic advisory, cost transformation & financial modelling projects, to deliver tangible value and drive business outcomes for the client
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including technology, operations, and strategy professionals, to deliver integrated solutions that address clients' complex finance and business needs
  • Develop relationships with client stakeholders, deeply understanding their business needs and aligning solutions with their objectives and industry best practices
  • Contribute to the growth of the Finance & CFO Advisory capability by developing thought leadership content, collaborating with internal teams across Capgemini, and building capabilities through innovative offerings and assets.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

  • Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
  • Internal Contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
  • Learning & Development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile

You will have experience and expertise in the following areas:

  • Experienced in business transformation and the programme management lifecycle, including: (1) a good knowledge of benchmarking practices and capability maturity assessments, (2) Expertise in developing compelling business cases highlighting the financial benefits and ROI of investments, and (3) expertise in operating model design and implementation.
  • In-depth process expertise in designing optimised Finance processes, across one or more from: Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Acquire-to-Retire, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax & Treasury.
  • Practical knowledge of cutting-edge technologies (GenAI, RPA, Analytics) and current/emerging market trends (e.g. Shared-Services, GBS, ERP/Digital Core), including their application in a finance context.
  • Proven experience of engagement management (scope, deliverables and commercials) alongside experience leading small and medium multi-disciplinary delivery teams or workstreams.
  • Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
  • Experience of proposition building and delivery.

For Manager and Senior Manager Positions:

  • Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be generating ( Senior Manager) or Contributing to ( Manager )c.£1m of consulting revenues.

Required certifications or licenses

  • Must be a fully or part-qualified Chartered Accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ICAEW/ICAS) or equivalent

What You'll Love About Working Here

We help our clients address challenges, and respond to opportunities around strategy, business case development, business integration, financial modelling & planning, cost optimisation & performance management and digital transformation across all industry sectors. You have an exciting opportunity to join our team and contribute to expanding the business, build client and internal relationships, support market activity, and be part of the team advising and shaping the leading Finance teams of the future.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

Diversity and Inclusion

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.


We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.


Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.