Consulting Director – Strategic Finance Delivery / Finance Transformation Job at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Full Time

Capgemini Invent: Why Join us?

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client’s challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

As a Consulting Director within the Finance & Enterprise Value practice, you will lead one of the two Finance & CFO Advisory work areas, either:

• Strategic Finance Delivery
• Finance Transformations

As a tribe leader, you will own the end-to-end vision and execution within your domain, including:

• Practice Development: Define and evolve offerings, playbooks, and toolkits to drive innovation, strengthen our market position and thought leadership.
• Delivery Excellence & Operations: Ensure high-quality delivery across engagements by embedding best practices and ensuring the achievement of operational business performance objectives.
• People: Build and develop a high-performing team, driving skills growth, coaching, and consultant career progression.
• Wider leadership: Contribute to the leadership of the Enterprise Model & Strategy Team and collaborate across Capgemini to deliver integrated solutions and client outcomes.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

As a Consulting Director you will possess experience of the following:

• Domain Expertise: You should have proven experience of working directly with C-level executives in a consulting context and bring experience across at least two target industries (Public Sector, Energy Transition & Utilities, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Automotive & Life Sciences, or Technology, Media, Telecoms & Services).

For Strategic Finance: Proven experience designing actionable finance strategy, finance target operating models and performance architectures that link strategy to measurable outcomes.

For Finance Operations & Performance: Expert knowledge of performance improvement techniques and the finance value chain, with mastery of at least two core processes (O2C, P2P, R2R, FP&A, T2F, Treasury) and experience shaping and leading cost performance programmes.

• Business development: Experience of proposition building, delivery. You should able be experienced in utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, to generate c.£2m of consulting revenues (Director).

• Consulting Experience: Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a substantial Consulting background. You will have a proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions to deliver measurable outcomes for CFOs and senior finance leaders.

• Leadership & People Development: Track record of building and developing high-performing teams, coaching talent, and fostering a culture of growth and inclusion.

• Professional Qualification: Fully qualified UK Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with strong technical grounding and ability to formulate strategy and translate into actionable solutions.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

About our team

Finance & Enterprise Value (F&EV) is the finance strategy & transformation advisory practice within Enterprise Model & Strategy (EM&S), part of the Corporate Experience capability unit at Capgemini Invent. We help CFOs and senior leaders identify, convert, and sustain value across the finance function.

Our practice comprises three work areas:

• Value Strategy & Modelling (VSM): Business case development, value realisation planning and shaping of outcome based commercial structures for major client decisions and deals.

• Strategic Finance Delivery: Connects strategy to performance by building integrated planning, forecasting, cost management, and finance delivery capabilities that strengthen decision-making and operational efficiency.

• Finance Transformation: Modernises finance functions through intelligent process redesign, future-ready operating models, and integration/separation support to create scalable, digital, insight-driven finance operations.

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have Manchester as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.