Credit & Collections-Finance & Performance Management Consultant

Description
Consulting - Multiple Locations

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Accenture’s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Business Consulting, Business and Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description
The Revenue Assurance, Credit & Collections domain within the Finance & Performance Management (F&PM) service line is currently focusing on the sale and delivery of relevant solutions to clients cross industry. Accenture provides expertise in the identification of weaknesses in a company’s order-to-cash process, and delivers people, process and technology solutions that fill these gaps and deliver measurable value in four key areas:

• Reduction in DSO/ANR
• Reduction in NBD
• Reduction in OE
• Increased revenue

Due to heavy credit granting and now rising interest rates, the pace of in-bound client interest around this topic is accelerating and many organizations are now planning their implementation strategies. Accenture will increasingly be the partner of choice for major institutions to their growing challenges.

Role Description:
Due to this increase in client demand, Accenture is now seeking to recruit a number of high calibre professionals at the Manager level, with a broad understanding of the application of collections technology solutions balanced with an intimate knowledge of the management and IT consulting craft.
Specific emphasis is being given to individuals with deep project management, configuration, integration and implementation experience with collections technology.

This candidate will have overall responsibility for the management and success collections package implementations, and overall program management. They must have demonstrated experience in managing these types of projects cross-industry. In addition, they will:

• Work with organizations cross-industry, delivering measurable value via technology around collections
• Define requirements, participate in planning, and manage large consulting or outsourcing projects encompassing people, process and (especially) technology
• Manage client relationships from functional line management to C-level
• Work well with other Accenture professionals, and manages combined Accenture-client teams
• Develop thought-capital focused on collections technology

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 123,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications

Skills Required:
•Credit/Collections process transformation or implementation experience
•Previous consulting experience (preferably Big 4)
•Relevant ERP experience
•Project Management, Report Writing, Risk Decisioning Analytics, Data Warehousing
•Functional requirements gathering and validation