Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. According to independent studies, Accenture is the world's leading consulting firm and leading information technology services company. Overview
Year founded
1971 Employees
1678, in South Africa Number and location of branches
Accenture in South Africa has three offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg & Pretoria Trade affiliations / memberships
American Chamber of Commerce, Black Management Forum, Institute of Directors, Institute of Management Consultants, Institute of People Development Major South African key clients
Standard Bank, JSE, SARS, Rand Water, De Beers, Eskom, Edcon, Goldfields, Woolworths, Cell-C, Vodacom, Telkom, Spoornet, City of Cape Town, Portnet, IEC, BP, Afrox, Shell, ABSA Industry Expertise
Accenture delivers its services and solutions through 17 focused industry groups in five operating groups. This industry focus provides Accenture's professionals with a thorough understanding of industry evolution, business issues and applicable technologies, enabling Accenture to deliver solutions tailored to each client's industry. 
Commitment to BEE in South Africa
Accenture is committed to diversity and transformation and has been awarded a 'AA' rating by empowerment rating agency, EmpowerDEX. Our actions and goals are consistent with the strategy of the Department of Trade and Industry for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. - 9 of our 16 board members are black.
- 31 percent of Accenture's senior executives are black.
- 55 percent of Accenture's employees are black.
- 43 percent of Accentur's employees are female.
- 76 percent of recruits during the last financial year were black.
- We have already exceeded our own target of 50 percent black directors.
- In the last financial year, Accenture placed over 50 percent of its discretionary procurement with black-owned companies. This amounted to R145 million.
Clients - Accenture's clients globally span the full range of industries around the world and include 94 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500. In addition, all of our top 100 clients in fiscal year 2007, based on revenue, have been clients for at least five years, and 85 have been clients for at least 10 years.
- Accenture South Africa clients currently include 40 percent of Financial Mail's 2005 Top 20 Companies, and we have worked with 70 percent of these high-performers to date.
- Furthermore, we have worked with over 50 percent of the Financial Mail's 2005 Top 50 Companies and are currently delivering services to over 30 percent of these.
- Accenture is, in part, responsible for billing and invoicing approximately 3.2 million City of Cape Town citizens and 1.2 million City of Tshwane citizens for their municipal taxes and services. Together, this means that we play a role in billing and invoicing 10 percent of South Africa's population.
- Accenture, in partnership with National Treasury, helped register some 10 million government physical assets valued at R9.6 billion on LOGIS, an asset management system. Approximately 345 sites, of which 82 are National departments, use the system for inventory management.
- In 2005, systems implemented by Accenture manage customer accounting and relationships for 50 percent of South Africa's electricity customers, which effectively generates 80 percent of Eskom's revenue.
- Sixty percent of the electricity industry's fixed assets in South Africa are managed by Accenture implemented systems and we also provide payroll and human resources information for 70 percent of South Africa's employees in the electricity industry.
Contact Information: South Africa - Chief Executive Officer: William Mzimba
- Financial Manager: Michelle Smit
- Human Resources Manager: Ntebo Kgoroba
- Physical address: Building No. 19, Harrowdene Office Park, Kelvin Drive, Woodmead, Johannesburg
- Postal address: PO Box 1587, Kelvin, Johannesburg, 2054
- Telephone: +27 11 208-3000
- Fax: +27 11 507-5400
- Website: www.accenture.co.za
- E-mail address:infosa@accenture.com
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