Engagement Lead, Finance and Accounting
TQA · Austin, US ·
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- Finance
TQA · Austin, US ·
About TQA
TQA is the Agentic AI Experts. We turn Agentic AI into real-world advantage, transforming how enterprises operate, adapt, and outperform. We deliver agentic and automation solutions that work in production rather than in a laboratory, built across Microsoft, UiPath, and ServiceNow, with the integration expertise to connect legacy, cloud, and new platforms. We stay with our clients from vision through to measurable value.
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Our values guide how we work: Be Human, Every Day. Always Moving Forward. Future Focused. A Trusted Partner.
About the Role
We are hiring a senior finance and accounting leader to become the domain authority on a major agentic AI and automation program inside a global marketing services group. You will not run a ledger. You will sit alongside the client’s transformation and controllership leadership, find the finance processes where agents and automation create genuine P&L value, prove the case in numbers, and keep a validated pipeline ahead of a multi-country delivery team. This is a client advisory role first and a delivery role second.
Our client is a publicly traded, digital-first global marketing network: more than 50 agency partners, over 13,000 specialists, operations across 40 countries, and revenue of approximately $2.9 billion. That federated structure produces finance and accounting complexity at scale. Many legal entities and ledgers, high-volume intercompany activity, project and job-level accounting, pass-through and media billing, and a monthly close that spans multiple agencies, currencies, and jurisdictions.
TQA has delivered automation for this client for more than nine months. The program is now moving from opportunistic quick wins to a curated, value-led pipeline delivered through dedicated pods. The constraint is finance domain judgment at the top of the funnel. The client’s transformation leadership cannot be in every finance conversation, so opportunities go unqualified and skilled delivery capacity waits on work that has not been validated or standardized.
This role closes that gap. You become the finance and accounting voice inside the program: the person in the room when agency and shared services teams talk about how work actually gets done, the person who recognizes where an agent beats a rule-based robot, and the person who hands delivery a backlog that is quantified, standardized, and ready to build.
Key Responsibilities
Advise the client, proactively
Act as the trusted finance and accounting advisor to the client’s transformation, controllership, and shared services leadership. Bring a point of view rather than waiting for a brief.
Represent the automation and AI agenda in agency and functional meetings where the client’s transformation team cannot be present. Act as their proxy and their advocate.
Challenge process design before automating it. Recommend standardization, control improvement, or retirement so that the program automates a good process rather than an efficient bad one.
Build relationships across the agency network so that finance leaders bring opportunities to you directly.
Own the pipeline and the value case
Identify, qualify, size, and sequence candidate processes across record to report, order to cash, purchase to pay, close and consolidation, intercompany, and management reporting.
Quantify each candidate: current effort and cost, target state, expected benefit, control impact, and payback. Present it in language a CFO organization accepts.
Keep a validated backlog running ahead of delivery capacity so that architects, analysts, and developers are never waiting on undefined work.
Decide, with the client, what to automate now, what to standardize first, and where an agentic solution is the right answer rather than traditional automation.
Shape solutions and assure delivery
Partner with solution architects and business analysts to turn finance process knowledge into agentic and automation designs on UiPath, Microsoft, and ServiceNow.
Set acceptance criteria that finance and audit will sign off, covering segregation of duties, evidence retention, auditability, and control impact in a public company environment.
Chair value readouts with client leadership. Connect delivered work to measured financial outcome rather than activity completed.
Support hypercare, knowledge transfer, and handover so that benefits persist after go-live.
Grow the account and the practice
Identify and shape adjacent opportunities, for example internal audit and controls testing, HR operations, and managed service, and work with the account team to bring them forward.
Feed reusable finance patterns, benchmarks, and accelerators back into TQA’s industry solutions library.
Coach TQA and client colleagues on finance domain context so that the whole pod raises its own commercial judgment.
How we will measure success
In the first 90 days
Client transformation and finance leadership treat you as a trusted advisor and invite you into conversations by name.
A documented finance and accounting process landscape exists, with each process rated for automation and agentic potential.
A qualified, sized, and sequenced pipeline covers at least the next two delivery quarters.
Within 12 months
A live value ledger links delivered automation and agents to quantified financial benefit, accepted by the client finance organization.
Measurable improvement in close cycle time, manual effort, or control exceptions across the processes in scope.
Pipeline coverage stays consistently ahead of delivery capacity.
At least one adjacent workstream opens as a direct result of your advisory relationship.
Required Skills and Experience
Twelve or more years in finance and accounting, including significant time in controllership, financial operations, shared services, or finance transformation leadership. A qualified accountant background is strongly preferred, for example CPA, CMA, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.
Deep, hands-on process knowledge across the finance lifecycle: month-end close and consolidation, intercompany, order to cash and collections, purchase to pay, expense and vendor management, and management reporting.
Demonstrated delivery of finance transformation using automation, AI, or agentic solutions, with benefits you can describe and defend in numbers.
A track record of client-facing or business partnering work at CFO, controller, and vice president level. You are comfortable being the most senior finance voice in the room.
Proven ability to build business cases and value models that finance leaders accept and finance teams can verify.
Experience inside a complex multi-entity, multi-currency environment, ideally with shared services or global business services exposure.
Based in the United States with the right to work in the United States, and willing to travel to client sites occasionally.
Nice to Have
Finance leadership inside a marketing, advertising, media, or professional services business. You understand job and project accounting, work in progress, billable utilization, pass-through and media billing, principal versus agent revenue treatment, and the economics of a federated agency network.
Public company reporting experience, including SOX 404 control design and testing and working alongside internal and external audit.
Practical familiarity with UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform and Azure AI, or ServiceNow. Enough to judge feasibility credibly without designing the solution yourself.
Applied understanding of agentic AI in a finance context: when an agent outperforms a rule-based robot, how to set guardrails, and where a human must stay in the loop for control reasons.
Consulting or professional services delivery experience, including scope discipline, commercial awareness, and account growth.
Exposure to the finance platform landscape common to agency groups, for example NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Workday Financials, Coupa, BlackLine, or agency systems such as Workamajig or Advantage.
What working at TQA looks like:
Headquartered in Texas, USA, we’re an international technology services and consultancy, partnering with enterprises across North America and Europe to deliver next-generation results through emerging technologies.
This is an exciting time to join us as we scale our global presence, innovate with automation, AI, and data, and empower businesses to transform their industries.
At our core, we believe in innovation, impact, and growth, both for our clients and our people. We offer an accelerated career path, giving you the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, develop your expertise, and grow into leadership roles quickly. If you're looking for a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can make a real impact, this is the place for you.
TQA is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome your application and believe in diversity of experience and opinion. Applications will be considered without regard to education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our growth and success, so we are building a culture where difference is valued.