Location: San Francisco or Seattle

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

People in the Corporate Function career track contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.

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. Finance professionals 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.

Job Description:

Be an active part of the West Finance team, directly supporting the Financial Services West CG to drive accurate business results across the full P&L. Qualified candidates will also develop in depth knowledge of the CG business across clients and SGs, while building a network within Finance and client teams.

• Manage the pre-close and forecast process by engaging directly with client teams to understand drivers of results and internal/external factors that are contributing to the quarterly forecast submissions.
• Provide insight to CGFL regarding how the forecast/plan can be more accurate, identify risks, and provide business commentary regarding results as well as forecast.
• Manage EAC change process by proactively identifying risks, tracking potential EAC’s and guiding client teams through the EAC change process. 
• Provide finance guidance to self-enabled CALs and CFM teams regarding forecasting, results analysis, and delivery issues.
• Work with other SPOCs and client teams to share best practices and leverage synergies.
• Collaborate with CDTS, CFM, and Controllership teams to ensure financials are compliant with Accenture policies and revenue is recognized accurately.
• Responsible for identifying, recommending, and assisting in the execution of process improvement initiatives.
• Coach teams on new tools such as MMB and CBP.
• Ability to challenge the status quo by learning from past results, policies, and new approaches which can drive a better financial understanding of our results.