Finance Data Platform Consultant

Finance Data Platform Consultant

Career level: Consultant (CL9)  |  Location: London / Manchester / Edinburgh  |  Practice: Finance Reinvention Partner (Platform Transformation) 

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Why this role

Finance has always run on data infrastructure of some kind, but the modern data platform matters more to a finance function than it ever has, and this is where you learn to build one. You'll work on the finance data platforms our clients depend on: a governed foundation that holds the enterprise's financial data, integrates with the ERP estate producing it, and carries the reporting, analytics and AI the CFO's teams use. You'll be hands-on from the start: modelling data, building and testing the pipelines that feed the platform, and getting the numbers on it to agree with the ledger. You'll grow quickly, on real programmes, alongside people who architect this work for a living. 

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI. We bring together our people, deep industry expertise and technology to deliver end-to-end outcomes for clients — and Finance is one of seven Reinvention Partners at the centre of that. Finance RP brings the CFO agenda to life for clients — stronger performance, sharper insight, and better control.

"Every leader needs to think of themselves as a reinventor. … Being a reinventor is believing that every part of the enterprise and their product has to be reinvented using tech, data, AI—new ways of working, new ways of engaging." — Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO

What you'll bring

Working on the finance data platform. Hands-on experience of a modern cloud data platform (Snowflake, Databricks or Palantir Foundry, or something comparable) and a working grounding in how one is put together: the layers that take data from raw ingestion through a conformed core to the curated sets finance consumes, the data products built on top of them, and the access and security rules around them. You build and test what the design calls for. You write queries and transformations that are efficient as well as correct, because compute on these platforms is a cost the client pays for, and you can explain why a piece of finance data sits where it does.

Integration with the ERP estate. Financial data originates in the ERP and the applications around it, and the integration is where most of the difficulty sits. You'll build and test the connections into that estate (SAP, Oracle or whatever a client runs) across subledgers and the general ledger, consolidation, close and reconciliation tooling. You work with ETL, ELT and API patterns, with both scheduled batch loads and change-data-capture feeds, and you handle the things source systems do in practice: master data that changes underneath you, late postings, restatements and reopened periods. You take reconciliation seriously. What the platform reports has to agree with what the ledger says, and building the tests and monitoring that prove it is often your job, as is catching a broken feed before it reaches a reporting pack.

Enterprise structure and finance master data. An awareness of how a finance data model reflects the legal, management and reporting structure of the enterprise: chart of accounts, entities and ledgers, cost and profit centre hierarchies, and the finance master data underneath them. The same work runs on ERP programmes, where chart-of-accounts and finance master data design are core workstreams, so this is capability you can put to use on a platform build and on an ERP implementation alike. You'll work within the governance and lineage the design sets, document what you build, and keep a figure in a report traceable back to the transaction behind it.

Analytics and reporting. This is what the platform is there to serve, and a good part of your work will sit here: building management reporting, the datasets behind self-service analytics, and the semantic and metrics definitions underneath both, so a measure such as margin or cost to serve means the same thing in every report that uses it. You'll build and test those models and reports, check the numbers behind them against the ledger, and work with the finance people who use them on what they need.

AI on the platform. This is where financial data turns into decisions: predictive forecasting, anomaly detection, AI-generated commentary and agentic workflows among the use cases, along with the human-in-the-loop controls that keep finance in charge of what the models produce. You'll build the data behind them, and there is every opportunity to be part of those conversations and the design work as the use cases take shape. Experience of analytics or AI work in a finance setting is a real plus, not something we expect you to arrive with.

Delivery and client skills. You own your scope and follow it through, and you support the team around you. You're comfortable in workshops and working sessions with client finance and technology people, contributing to the design workstreams the lead runs in front of the client, and you produce clear analysis and options that inform the decisions taken. You bring structured, analytical problem-solving, communicate clearly under pressure, and manage expectations honestly when something is harder than it looked.

Ways of working. We're increasingly an AI-first delivery team, bringing agentic tooling and orchestration into how we design, build and validate, with our people owning the judgement and the outcome. If you already work this way, that's a real plus, and we're keen to hear from people bringing that experience.

Who you are

You take ownership and follow through. You work well in a team and build trusted relationships with clients and colleagues. You're comfortable with ambiguity in complex organisations, bring good judgement and critical thinking to problems that aren't fully defined, and you're clear and considered in how you explain your reasoning. You're early in your trajectory and set on building the rest. 

Things that set strong candidates apart: hands-on experience with a modern cloud data platform, such as Snowflake, Databricks or Palantir Foundry, among others; experience moving financial data out of an ERP such as SAP or Oracle and into a reporting or analytics environment, and reconciling it once it is there; experience building management reporting or analytics on top of platform data; working knowledge of SQL, APIs and modern data-integration technologies, and some exposure to Python or ML platforms; an understanding of chart-of-accounts, enterprise structure and finance master data, and why it shapes everything downstream; and relevant cloud-data or AI certifications, or a professional finance or accounting qualification. 

If you have most of this and the drive to build the rest, we want to hear from you. Tell us what you'd bring. 

About Finance RP

Within Accenture, the Finance Reinvention Partner helps clients improve financial performance around the CFO agenda — driving best-in-class performance, and sharper insight and benchmarking across the enterprise. In the UK and Ireland, our Finance RP practice brings together finance strategy and the platforms it runs on, including SAP, Oracle, Workday and EPM, and the cloud data platforms finance now builds on alongside them.

You'd join our Platforms transformation offering within the practice — a growing team building the data platforms finance runs on, and the analytics and AI that sit on top of them. It's a close team that likes the work and keeps looking for better ways to do it, and it is built on purpose from mixed backgrounds: platforms, finance process, data, AI and advisory. Early in a career that matters more than most things, because you pick up the parts of the job nobody writes down by sitting next to people who approach it differently.

What's in it for you

Alongside a competitive salary and package (dependent on experience), you'll have an extensive benefits package including 30 days' holiday a year, private medical insurance, and 3 additional days' leave a year for charitable work of your choice. 

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society. 

Closing date: 28/02/2027. Accenture reserves the right to close the role earlier should a suitable applicant be found.

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About Accenture

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