Financial ERP- Consultant

Description
Organization: Products Health and Life Sciences
Location: Open to US locations

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

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

This candidate will collaborate with Accenture client teams to define, architect and deliver transformational finance and performance management solutions. This candidate will be required to demonstrate an understanding of processes and best practices within finance functional areas and how to use Oracle/SAP functionality to support those best practices.

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.

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Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications

2-6 years of related experience
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) design and implementation experience: SAP or Oracle
Financial Accounting experience (A/P, A/R, GL, FA, Billing)
Health services and/or pharmaceutical/medical products industry experience
BPO, shared services experience
One or more of the following: enrollment and billing solutions; health care underwriting and rating; planning, budgeting & forecasting, financial reporting, data warehouse
Business requirements definition, conceptual/detailed design, configuration
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Executive/professional presence
Project Management skills
JD Edwards, PeopleSoft a plus
Consulting experience
BS/BA degree
Preferred locations: Philadelphia PA, New York NY, Boston MA, Hartford CT, Chicago IL, Charlotte NC, Washington DC, Atlanta GA, Minneapolis MN, Dallas
100% travel required