ACCENTURE STRATEGY & CONSULTING
Join Accenture Strategy & Consulting and you’ll work alongside fellow industry experts to lead transformational projects, and define cutting edge solutions, solving our client’s most complex issues. And because our clients span the full range of industries - Including 94 of the Fortune 100 - you’ll have the opportunity to pursue your passion, hone your expertise and deepen your knowledge.

As a Strategy & Consulting practitioner you’ll shape the future of top global companies.  By joining Accenture, you will embark on a fast-paced career that will allow you to utilise your deep industry experience and specialised skills to design, sell and lead industry defining transformation programs. In this role you’ll use your expertise to drive opportunity—for the company and for yourself—while maintaining the flexibility you need to keep your career ahead of the curve.

EUROPE TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY & ADVISORY TEAM
Are you ready to join our European Technology Strategy & Advisory team to transform how businesses connect with their customers? Our clients are major European multinationals who operate globally and rank highly in the world's top stock exchanges. They are transforming their business to cope with the new realities and ever evolving market conditions, investing on innovative and cutting-edge technologies to grow and stay ahead of the curve, and rely on our help and support to ensure that these come into fruition and produce the expected returns.

We are a team of highly customer-centric, motivated, skilled and experienced architects devoted to the definition, design, orchestration and delivery of world-class technology strategies and best-of-breed architectures to our clients, ensuring that these underpin their transformational business objectives and exceed their expectations. These often span across multiple business capabilities, from Sales & Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing or Human Resources, to Research and Product Development.

Due to increased demand from our clients, we are seeking to recruit a Technology Strategy & Advisory Senior Manager specialising in Transformation Leadership. This is a small, but rapidly expanding area of our business. As such, we are looking for individuals who not only excel when working in a client facing environment, but can also contribute to sales, developing our communities of practice as well as creating assets and offerings. The opportunities are truly endless for the right candidate.  

YOUR ROLE
As a Technology Strategy & Advisory Manager specialising in Technology Business Management / FinOps, you’ll often be: 

• Defining and developing visions and journeys which set out the goals for IT / Cloud Finance Management. This could include creating the transformation blueprint, mapping the future state or designing and implementing the to-be operating model supported with best-of-breed tools in the market.

• Shaping and planning the critical stages before the delivery starts in earnest. Prioritising and sequencing the key phases of work to iteratively deliver benefits. Validating the feasibility of the transformation plan technically, commercially and organisationally.

• Delivering transformation change that is complex and often at scale, with ground breaking technologies and customer propositions. Providing expertise to both client and Accenture teams in financial management aligned with Cloud / It Financial operations encompassed with technical / cloud migration journey.

• Supporting the TBM / FinOps capability during the entire sales process, partnering with Accenture Leadership and sales leads to ensure that the full client brief is evaluated and that the response is truly client effective, bringing the best of Accenture.

• Be a guiding light in Thought Leadership. Understand what our clients need to truly transform and continue or evolve to be Market Leaders. Develop the assets to support these conversations, and establish the relationships to do this.

YOUR EXPERIENCE: 
You will have experience with most of the following:

• Industries (at least one): Aerospace & Defence, Automotive, Banking, Capital Markets, Chemicals, Communications & Media, Consumer Goods & Services, Energy, Health, High Tech, Industrial, Insurance, Life Sciences, Natural Resources, Public Service, Retail, Software & Platforms, Travel and Utilities.

• Background in strategy and/or consulting

• Proven experience of setting and shaping transformation strategy & vision; gaining buy in and approval from C-Suite level stakeholders

• 5+ years of practical delivery experience across large scale / complex transformation; understanding both business and IT elements 

• Deep understanding of project management methodologies and how to apply these to clients based on context, maturity etc. 

• Running both small / large teams with line management responsibility (e.g. end of year performance management feedback and associated processes)

• Experience of RFI / RFP processes (aspirational)

• Experience of programme assurance / diagnostic and recovery (aspirational)