Career Paths


What can I expect from my experience at Accenture?

The most important factor in shaping your career experience is, you - the set of skills, goals and motivations that you bring to work every day.

The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. The sheer scale of capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organisations, so you will be given the opportunity to craft solutions and build systems that affect companies around the world - creating the infrastructure of business today.




Although our people have different responsibilities within Accenture, your work would challenge you to consider new, innovative ideas and be open to new possibilities. At Accenture, you would be working for a company with a globally recognised brand and reputation. It is important to know that regardless of where you work in our organisation or where you are in your career, you will have a variety of opportunities to develop your potential. This may include providing services or putting in place proven solutions to bring high performance to our clients or to Accenture.

At times this work is demanding, but there are strong support networks in place to help you along the way - from motivated and talented co-workers, to supportive leaders and supervisors, to internal communities that complement your work experiences with mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing and networking opportunities.

Being at Accenture, you would soon see that there is something unique about the people with whom you work. In exchange for your efforts, you would have a range of opportunities to learn, grow and expand your expertise through on-the-job experience, and formal and informal training. You would be rewarded and recognised through various programs designed to acknowledge your contributions.

Where do I fit in?

What does Accenture do?
What does Accenture actually do? It's simple. Accenture leverages unmatched experience and research-based knowledge to help clients become high-performance businesses. We use the combined talents of our people around the world to help businesses and governments achieve high performance. We are innovators in ideas, technology and we have extensive experience and knowledge of our clients and their industries. This includes helping them to identify and predict new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and apply research-based insights tailored to the client’s business.



Which workforce will I fit into?
Because of the nature and scope of our work, we operate as a network of complementary businesses that work together in different ways to achieve great things for our clients. This means, that your Accenture career could take you in a number of different directions, depending on the skills or experience you have and you want to develop. You can join us in one of our three workforces: Consulting, Services or Solutions.

What can I expect from my workforce?
Each of our workforces - Consulting, Services and Solutions—provides a unique mix of work experience and environment, training opportunities and a structure for career progression.

Our Consulting team uses a deep knowledge of business, industry and technology to help our clients improve in each area of their business. Our experts come up with and implement ideas that could develop anything from a client’s strategic planning to their day-to-day operations. Consulting regularly works in partnership with our other workgroups.

The work of our Services (Business Process Outsourcing) team is all about freeing our clients up to focus on what they do best – their core business. As well as outsourcing areas such as software maintenance, finance and accounting, procurement, learning, training and human resources. These services also improve clients’ key business functions, enabling them to work more efficiently.

Solutions (Technology) offer a ‘start-to-finish’ approach to technology challenges. The team is made up of IT enthusiasts who focus on designing, developing and delivering innovative technology to our clients– the accent, though, is always on practical, workable solutions.

Each workforce is divided into “workgroups,” according to the specific skills or services they offer. This approach allows us to provide a wide range of specialised career options to suit people’s diverse career goals and expectations.

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Consulting

Graduate opportunities in Consulting

What is Consulting?
Consulting professionals play a central role in developing, selling and managing multifaceted projects that draw on Accenture's skills and services in a fast-paced environment.

Our consultants belong to one of three work groups that determine the type of consulting work they do: Management Consulting, Systems Integration or Technology Consulting.

Consultants also develop and apply expertise in an industry, business, technical or functional area, which can determine the clients with whom they work.

What is the work environment like?
Consulting people work closely with our clients, often in a fast-paced and highly collaborative project environment. They work in teams that bring together relevant experts from across Accenture. Consulting work typically takes place at client sites, often requiring travel.

What does the Consulting workforce do?
As a consulting analyst you will belong to one of the three consulting groups, focus mainly on project delivery, work across several industry groups and develop a broad set of skills that will best position you for future success.

Management Consulting:
Focus on strategy and take responsibility for organisational change and business transformation.

Use industry or functional expertise and critical thinking skills to help our clients determine where they are on their journey to high performance and design realistic, achievable strategies that address their key business priorities.
Systems Integration Consulting:
Deliver large-scale, complex programs that combine processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance. Specialise in the design, development, integration, delivery of functional, industry solutions and processes for clients based on existing packages such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Retek, or custom-built systems.

Technology Consulting:
Deliver technology innovation and serve as the backbone of our systems integration business. Specialise in designing enterprise architecture and technology solutions, assessing and diagnosing technology environments, designing technology infrastructure such as networks, security and platforms, setting strategies, and tuning technology environments for optimal performance.

What will be my growth path?
You are just 5 steps away from actually leading an independent business stream

Consulting has a pace-based career path. People in the Consulting workforce must progress upward through the career levels within stated time periods.

Readiness to progress through the career levels is based on a combination of performance, contribution, capability and business need.
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Solutions

Graduate opportunities in Solutions

What does the Solutions (Technology) workforce do?
Solutions workforce people are technology specialists who are responsible for implementing and leading highly complex technology projects. They may build, test, install and maintain software across a variety of projects and industries. They are involved in a wide range of challenging technology projects on a global scale—working with leading enterprise applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle, or with custom-built applications.

The Accenture Delivery Centers for Technology in India are the largest of Accenture’s Delivery Centers and a strategic node in Accenture’s integrated Global Delivery Center Network, which has more than 40 Delivery Centers around the world including facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our highly skilled IT professionals located in Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune and Kolkata provide high-quality technology outsourcing services across capabilities to leading global companies and help them transform into high-performance businesses.

The Accenture Delivery Centers for Technology in India have been awarded the BS7799-2 and the ISO 27001 certification. These certifications demonstrate Accenture’s commitment to information security and rigorous protection of customer and client data. We have also achieved the People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM) Level 5 accreditation, which recognises our endeavor to constantly set high standards in people practices. Our achievement of CMMIL5 certification demonstrates our commitment to continuous process improvements and is recognition of our capability to define, create and sustain business value for our clients.

What is the work environment like?
The Solutions work environment varies by assignment, but work typically takes place at either a client location or in an Accenture Delivery Center.

Solutions people work on project teams that require collaboration with other Accenture people and client personnel and that bring together relevant experts from across Accenture’s global network. Depending on the responsibilities of an individual’s specific role, travel may be required.

What will be my growth path?
Your role will fall into a particular career level, based on the scope of your responsibilities, your level of autonomy and your impact on the business.

There is no fixed term for any career level – depends on if there is a business need, a position becomes available and you are ready to advance.

Promotions are based on your performance, whether you have acquired the necessary skills and whether you are willing and able to take on the responsibilities at the next level.
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Services

Graduate opportunities in Services

What does the Services (Business Process Outsourcing) workforce do?
Accenture offers a wide spectrum of standardised business process outsourcing (BPO) services. Our BPO units provide function-specific and/or industry-specific business services to multiple clients on an outsourcing basis through standard operating models. By outsourcing to Accenture, our clients can focus on core competencies, high performance and achieve operational excellence as well.

The Accenture Delivery Centers for BPO in India provide the widest spectrum of industrial-scale, cross-industry business process services, together with vertical, industry-specific services, of any third-party BPO service provider in India, thereby providing our people with diverse career opportunities.

What is the work environment like?
The Services work environment varies by assignment, but work typically takes place at either a client location or in an Accenture Delivery Center.

Services people work on project teams that require collaboration with other Accenture people and client personnel and that bring together relevant experts from across Accenture’s global network. Depending on the responsibilities of an individual’s specific role, travel may be required.

What will be my growth path?
Accenture provides multiple career growth opportunities:

1.You can hone your existing skills while remaining in the current role and level.
2.You can also progress and increase your scope and level of accountability.

Career growth at Accenture is based on:
1.The tenure you have spent on the role.
2.Your performance ratings and the compensation levels grow with career progression.

Fast-track career progression path:
The better you perform at work, the greater are your chances of moving through the various levels, each leading to higher compensation.
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