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 advises CFOs and senior leaders on how to identify, unlock, and sustain value across the finance function. The work combines strategy, transformation, science and data, creativity, design, and technology to help clients solve current and future business challenges.

As a Managing Consultant at manager level, you will bring deep finance transformation consulting experience and also work flexibly across the broader Enterprise Model & Strategy portfolio. The position combines client delivery, practice leadership, people development, and business growth responsibilities.

What you will do

• Take accountability for delivering strategic transformation programmes within the Finance & Enterprise Value practice and the wider Enterprise Model & Strategy team, while helping expand and strengthen client accounts.
• Lead large and complex engagements, working side by side with clients and internal teams to quickly understand the underlying business issue and define workable solutions.
• Develop recommendations and insights that are grounded in evidence and presented in a way that can stand up to detailed scrutiny from senior clients.
• Build durable, trusted relationships with client stakeholders at senior levels and operate as a credible advisor.
• Lead assigned offerings by improving playbooks, toolkits, and related assets that support innovation, thought leadership, and market differentiation.
• Coach, develop, and manage the performance of team members contributing to project delivery.
• Help strengthen the practice by supporting skills development, mentoring consultants, and contributing to career progression across the team.
• Support business development through leadership activity, recruitment support, and broader contribution to growth across the practice and team.
• Develop, commercialise, and scale solutions and offerings so they align with business objectives.
• Work toward sales goals, including an assigned target of £0.5m.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as campaigns, internal discussion groups, white papers, practice operations, recruitment activity, and team events.
• Take part in learning and development opportunities, including training and certifications that support your own progression and the skills needs of the business.

Experience and qualifications needed

• Proven consulting and leadership experience, including the ability to build teams, mobilise work, and lead projects through to successful delivery.
• Background 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, or experience leading cost performance programmes.
• Experience in more than one target sector, such as the public sector, energy transition and utilities, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, life sciences, or technology, media, telecoms and services.
• Ability to work with clients and colleagues to rapidly define business problems and shape possible solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, using a fact-led approach to turn data into insight and action.
• Experience leading and planning workstreams required to deliver programmes in line with the relevant methodology.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with senior executives.
• Extensive experience delivering complex improvement or transformation work in a hybrid delivery model.
• Experience working with finance teams in large, complex, or international organisations, including familiarity with modern finance operating principles.
• Commercial capability, including the ability to sell additional resources, help shape winning proposals, and contribute to strategic account development within an industry sector.
• Experience growing and commercialising assigned solutions or offerings.
• Experience working against a formal sales target.
• Experience leading teams across multiple projects and workstreams.
• A record of supporting strong teams, coaching talent, and promoting an inclusive, growth-focused culture.
• For credibility with senior finance leaders, you must be a fully qualified UK Chartered Accountant, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or an equivalent qualification, with strong technical knowledge and the ability to translate strategy into practical action.
• It is desirable to have experience with solutions that make successful use of artificial intelligence.

About the team

Finance & Enterprise Value is Capgemini Invent’s finance strategy and transformation advisory practice within Enterprise Model & Strategy. The team helps clients create value across the finance function through two main areas of work.

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

Working style, inclusion, and wellbeing

The role is based from London, Manchester, or Glasgow, but you must be fully flexible about assignment location because work may require time away from home at short notice. Capgemini embeds hybrid working and offers flexible working arrangements to UK employees. The organisation says it is committed to inclusion and aims to create an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work.

Employee wellbeing is highlighted as a priority. Support includes trained Mental Health Champions across business areas and access to wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. Capgemini also states that it is a Disability Confident Employer at Level 2. As part of its inclusive recruitment approach, it will offer an interview to candidates who declare a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria, provided they opt in during the application process.

About the wider organisation

Capgemini describes itself as a global business and technology transformation partner helping organisations move toward digital and sustainable futures while creating measurable impact for enterprises and society. The group operates in more than 50 countries, has a workforce of around 350,000 people, and brings together strategy, design, engineering, AI, cloud, data, industry expertise, and partner ecosystems. The company also highlights its sustainability and social impact commitments, including work to reduce its own carbon footprint and improve access to the digital world.

Reward and application information

The role is permanent and is advertised at experienced professional level. The posting lists London, Manchester, and Glasgow as location options. Capgemini says it offers a remuneration package with flexible benefits that can be chosen to suit personal circumstances, along with a variable element linked to grade and to both company and individual performance.

To apply, candidates should use the application process provided on the job page, including the option to apply directly or start an application through LinkedIn.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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