Finance and Accounting Transformation Director

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms! Building on its strong 50-year+ heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, we enable organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from and through people. Today, it is a multicultural company of 270,000 team members in almost 50 countries!

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About the job you’re considering

As an integral part of Capgemini’s IFAO ( Intelligent Finance & Accounting Operations) Consulting team, you will help guide our clients towards large-scale transformations using automation and technology solutions at the very forefront of innovation. You will have the opportunity to shape the future of business operations at large and will take responsibility for fine-tuning and orchestrating technology-enabled transformation projects. We seek focused and inspired individuals who have the special power to build the close, trusting relationships that are key to delivering the seamless and efficient transitions that clients expect from Capgemini. 

Your role

• Transform client relationships to generate successful sales
• Lead projects spanning several practices/disciplines/geographies managing scope, risks, results, delays and profitability
• Be an “Influencer” in the further development of the functionality of process specialism via technical knowledge, capabilities and attitude
• Focus on business results and higher profit margin, while organizing successful delivery
• Be a confident, polished and fluent presenter frequently presenting to client management teams, to boards and to large audiences
• Lead the development and extension of products and services and know how to communicate and market them
•  Drive process improvement through technology related tools within the given area of expertise
• Strategically focus people and resources to meet changing market requirements - Be an enabler of change
• Implement effective recruitment strategies to build the organization to meet business objectives
• Have knowledge of and actively promote group-wide knowledge management tools and learning. Can input to and design learning programs

Your skills and experience

• Leverage your extensive process/domain knowledge to lead the development and extension of products and services and successfully communicate and market them
• Deliver a compelling vision and value proposition for Senior level clients (current and prospective) and influence key stakeholders to gain designed impact and results
• Identify business transformation/business opportunities at a management level and drives proposals to win these
• Drive and identify opportunities for the development of team offers, new tools, points of view and methodologies
• Lead the development of new tools, PoV and methodologies individually and through networks (e.g. centers of excellence)
• Have an excellent understanding of Transformation and Innovation Office (TIO), concept, and project and change management methodologies and can steer profound change and disrupt these frameworks and/ or methodologies
• Drive DGEM development within the expert community
• Successfully facilitate at board-level workshops involving multiple organizations
• Own and deliver key projects of significant size, complexity and risk with an emphasis on best-in-class F&A processes, leveraging intelligent automation, people change and controls enhancement

Requirements

• English at CEFR Grade C1 (Advanced) or equivalent