Finance Transformation Managing Consultant

Finance Transformation Managing Consultant Overview

This role sits within Capgemini Invent’s Finance & Enterprise Value practice, part of the wider Enterprise Model & Strategy area in the Corporate Experience capability unit. The team helps senior finance leaders and CFOs identify, unlock, and sustain value across the finance function. The work combines strategy, transformation, and advisory support, with an emphasis on practical outcomes, evidence-based recommendations, and solutions that can be implemented in real business settings.

As a Manager in this practice, you will bring deep finance transformation consulting experience and the flexibility to contribute across the broader Enterprise Model & Strategy portfolio. The role is designed for someone who can lead complex client work, shape offerings, support team development, and contribute to business growth while also building their own career within the practice.

What you will do

• Take ownership of strategic transformation delivery within the Finance & Enterprise Value practice and the wider Enterprise Model & Strategy team, while helping to deepen and expand client relationships.
• Lead major, complex engagements by working closely with clients and colleagues to quickly understand the business issue, define the challenge clearly, and identify viable solutions.
• Develop recommendations and insights that are grounded in strong evidence and can withstand detailed client review and challenge.
• Build trusted, durable relationships with clients, including senior stakeholders, and operate as a credible advisor at multiple levels.
• Lead and improve assigned offerings by developing and refining playbooks, toolkits, and other assets that support innovation, market positioning, and thought leadership.
• Coach, develop, and manage the performance of team members involved in delivery, while helping strengthen the practice through skills development and career support.
• Support growth of the practice and the wider team through leadership activity, recruitment support, and contribution to business development across all levels.
• Help shape, commercialise, and grow solutions and offerings so they align with business objectives, including working toward a sales target of £0.5m.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as campaign work, internal think-tanks, white papers, practice operations, recruitment, team events, and offering development.
• Take part in learning and development activity, including training and certifications, to support your own progression and meet evolving business needs.

What the role requires

• Strong consulting and leadership background, with proven ability to build teams, mobilise work, and lead projects through to successful delivery.
• Practical experience in performance improvement methods and the finance value chain.
• Project leadership experience across at least two core finance processes, such as order to cash, procure to pay, record to report, planning and analysis, tax to finance, or treasury, and/or experience leading cost performance programmes.
• Experience across more than one relevant industry, such as the public sector, energy transition and utilities, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, or technology, media, telecoms and services.
• Ability to work collaboratively with clients and internal teams to define problems and potential solutions quickly and effectively.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, using a fact-led approach to shape insight and recommendations.
• Experience planning and leading the workstreams needed to deliver a programme in line with the appropriate methodology.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with senior executives.
• Extensive experience delivering complex improvement or transformation programmes in a hybrid delivery environment.
• Experience working with finance teams in large, complex, or international organisations, along with familiarity with modern finance operating principles.
• Commercial awareness and business development capability, including selling additional resources, helping shape successful deals, and contributing to strategic account development within an industry sector.
• Experience growing and commercialising solutions or offerings, and working to a formal sales target.
• Ability to build and manage teams across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Evidence of supporting high-performing teams, coaching talent, and helping create an inclusive culture that encourages growth.
• Mandatory professional qualification as a fully qualified UK Chartered Accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent credential, with strong technical grounding and the ability to turn strategy into practical action.
• Helpful but not essential: experience delivering solutions that successfully use artificial intelligence.

About the team

Finance & Enterprise Value is Capgemini Invent’s finance strategy and transformation advisory practice within Enterprise Model & Strategy. The practice supports clients in creating value across the finance function through three main areas of work.

• Value Strategy & Modelling: supporting business case development, value realisation planning, and the design of outcome-based commercial structures for major decisions and deals.
• Finance Transformation: designing and improving future-ready finance operating models, organisation structures, and delivery models, together with integrated planning, productivity improvements, and cost optimisation to strengthen decision-making and financial performance.

Working style and location

The role is based from London, Manchester, or Glasgow, but the successful candidate must be fully flexible about assignment location. The work may involve spending periods away from home at short notice. Capgemini also states that hybrid working is embedded in the way the business operates, and flexible working arrangements are available to UK employees.

Inclusion, wellbeing, and culture

Capgemini says it is committed to inclusion and aims to make flexible working a practical reality. The company highlights its Inclusive Futures for All campaign and its focus on creating an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work. Employee wellbeing is described as a priority, supported by trained Mental Health Champions across the business and wellbeing tools such as Thrive and Peppy.

The company is also a Disability Confident Employer at Level 2. As part of its inclusive recruitment approach, it offers an interview to candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria, provided they opt in during the application process.

Capgemini also emphasises its social and environmental commitments, including efforts to reduce its own carbon footprint and improve access to the digital world. The company notes that it has been recognised by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the world’s most ethical companies for ten consecutive years.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner that helps organisations accelerate their transition to digital and sustainable operating models while creating measurable impact for businesses and society. The group operates in more than 50 countries, has a workforce of around 350,000 people, and brings together capabilities spanning strategy, design, engineering, AI, cloud, data, and deep industry expertise. The company says it has more than 55 years of heritage and reported global revenues of €22.1 billion in 2024.

Additional details

The position is permanent and is advertised for experienced professionals. The posting lists the reference code 428128 and shows a posting date of 10 August 2026. The professional community is Strategy & Transformation, and the brand is Capgemini Invent.

Capgemini also notes that the role is supported by a remuneration package with flexible benefits, alongside a variable element that depends on grade as well as company and individual performance.

How to apply

Applicants can use the Apply Now option on the job page, including the option to start an application with LinkedIn.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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