GBS RTR Operating Model (Consultant)

Accenture’s Finance Reinvention Partner helps CFOs and finance leaders reinvent how finance creates and protects enterprise value—bringing together strategy, operating model, data, AI and technology to improve performance, insight, control and execution. In the UK and Ireland, the practice combines finance strategy and transformation capabilities with the enterprise platforms that enable them, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and enterprise performance management solutions.

Our GBS and Operating Model team helps clients design and implement how finance and other enterprise services should be organised and delivered across retained functions, Global Business Services, Global Capability Centres, Centres of Excellence and external service providers. We support the full transformation journey—from strategy, value case and target operating model through detailed design, mobilisation, implementation, service management and continuous improvement—embedding data, automation and AI to create scalable, resilient and value-led operations.

This role supports the redesign of how Record-to-Report (R2R) and controllership services are organised and governed across group and local finance, GBS/GCC, Centres of Excellence, outsourcing partners and technology. You will help clients improve close performance, accounting quality, controls and service delivery while preserving clear statutory and fiduciary accountability.

At its core, this is an operating-model and process-transformation role. The Consultant brings sufficient R2R depth to analyse current-state issues, develop credible design options and translate approved decisions into detailed process, control, service and technology requirements.

• Assess the current R2R operating model by analysing service scope, activity location, organisation and capacity, close performance, process variation, policies, controls, data, enabling systems, service measures and the root causes of operational pain.
• Support the development of the target R2R service model and activity-placement options across group or corporate controllership, local and statutory finance, GBS/GCC, Global Process Owners, Centres of Excellence and external service providers. Use evidence to assess value, feasibility, risk and implementation dependencies.
• Develop detailed operating-model and service-design deliverables for assigned R2R areas, covering activity scope, roles, decision rights, capacity, governance, controls, hand-offs and service interfaces. This may include areas such as general ledger and close, journals, reconciliations, intercompany, fixed assets, consolidation, group and statutory reporting, and master data, together with interfaces to P2P, O2C, Tax, Treasury and FP&A.
• Assess the implications of standardisation, automation and AI for the future operating model, including which activities can be automated or technology-enabled, where finance judgement and accountability must remain with people, and how roles, approvals, exception handling, controls and audit evidence should change.
• Translate operating-model decisions into clear business, data and control requirements for ERP, close and reconciliation tools, workflow, analytics, automation and AI. Work with technology, data, controls and architecture specialists to clarify requirements and support their traceability through solution design, testing and implementation.
• Contribute to R2R governance and service-management design, including process ownership, RACIs, SLAs and OLAs, performance and control measures, escalation routes, service-review forums and continuous-improvement routines.
• Build supporting analysis for the case for change, benefits and implementation roadmap, and contribute to transition planning, knowledge transfer, business readiness, control changes, training, testing, cutover and early-life stabilisation.
• Produce clear, client-ready deliverables and support focused workshops with finance, controllership, GBS and technology stakeholders. Manage your assigned outputs, risks and dependencies, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to proposals and reusable R2R assets.

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