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 team. The group supports CFOs and senior business leaders in identifying, unlocking, and sustaining value across the finance function. The work combines strategy, transformation, data-led insight, creativity, and technology to help clients address current challenges and prepare for future needs.

As a manager in this practice, you will bring deep finance transformation consulting experience while also contributing across the broader Enterprise Model & Strategy portfolio. The position combines client delivery, practice development, people leadership, and business growth responsibilities.

What you will do

• Take ownership of strategic transformation delivery across the Finance & Enterprise Value practice and the wider Enterprise Model & Strategy team, while helping to deepen and extend client relationships.
• Lead major, complex engagements in partnership with clients and internal teams, rapidly clarifying the underlying business issue and identifying workable response options.
• Develop recommendations and insights that are grounded in evidence and strong enough to stand up to scrutiny from senior stakeholders.
• Build trusted, long-term relationships with clients and operate as a credible advisor at multiple levels of the organisation.
• Lead assigned offerings and help evolve supporting assets such as playbooks and toolkits so the practice continues to innovate and strengthen its market position.
• Coach, develop, and manage the performance of team members contributing to project delivery.
• Support the growth of the practice by helping colleagues build skills, encouraging progression, and contributing to a high-performing culture.
• Assist with business development by supporting recruitment, leadership activity, and wider team growth across all levels.
• Help shape, commercialise, and expand solutions and offerings so they contribute to business objectives.
• Work toward a sales objective of £0.5m and contribute to account growth, deal shaping, and solution selling.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as campaigns, internal think tanks, white papers, practice operations, recruitment activity, and team events.
• Take part in learning and development opportunities, including training and certifications, to support your own progression and the capability needs of the business.

What the role requires

• Strong consulting and leadership experience, including the ability to build teams, mobilise work, and lead projects through to successful completion.
• Practical experience with performance improvement methods and the finance value chain.
• Project leadership 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 delivering 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 colleagues to define problems quickly and identify potential solutions.
• A structured, fact-based approach to problem solving that can be used to shape recommendations and generate insight.
• Experience planning and leading the workstreams needed to deliver a programme in line with the appropriate methodology.
• Confidence in building and maintaining relationships with senior executives and other high-level stakeholders.
• Substantial experience delivering complex improvement or transformation work in a hybrid delivery model.
• Experience working with finance teams in large, complex, or international organisations, together with 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 building and managing teams across multiple projects and workstreams.
• A record of coaching talent, supporting high-performing teams, and helping create an inclusive, growth-oriented 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.
• Strong technical finance knowledge and the ability to translate strategy into practical actions and solutions.
• Desirable experience: working on 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, which sits inside the Corporate Experience capability unit. The team helps clients create value across the finance function through two 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, alongside integrated planning, productivity improvements, and cost optimisation to improve decision-making and financial performance.

Working environment and culture

Capgemini says it is committed to inclusion and aims to make that commitment real in day-to-day working life. The company promotes an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work and says it supports positive work-life balance through flexible working arrangements.

Hybrid working is part of the normal way of working, and all UK employees can request flexible working arrangements. The organisation also places strong emphasis on wellbeing, with trained Mental Health Champions across business areas and access to wellbeing tools such as Thrive and Peppy.

The company 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.

Capgemini also highlights its social impact and sustainability commitments, including efforts to reduce its own carbon footprint and improve access to the digital world. The business notes that it has been recognised among the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for ten consecutive years.

Location, flexibility, and employment details

The role can be based from London, Manchester, or Glasgow. However, the successful candidate must be fully flexible about assignment location, as the work may require periods away from home at short notice.

This is a permanent position for an experienced professional. Capgemini offers a remuneration package that includes flexible benefits and a variable element linked to grade, company performance, and individual performance.

How to apply

Applications can be submitted through the company’s online application process, with an option to start the process directly or via LinkedIn.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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