Entry Level Advisory Development Program - Summer Analyst - Canada - NAELFY27
Jumpstart your career with the Accenture Advisory Summer Analyst (Internship) Development Program.
Use your strengths to help top clients tackle real business challenges while exploring how technology can drive innovation and transformation.
As a Summer Analyst, you’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate your consulting skills in a supportive, team-oriented environment. You’ll be part of a culture that values collaboration, inclusivity, and empowering everyone to thrive and build a meaningful career.
*Internship program starts in June and runs approximately 10 weeks
What Your Summer Role Could Look Like…
- Be part of a meaningful summer project where your ideas and input truly matter—you’ll help solve real business problems using the latest tech and tools, culminating with an internship deliverable and presentation.
- Collaborate in-person with your team, clients, and company leaders to build relationships, learn from others, and contribute to a vibrant and inclusive workplace.
- Build core consulting skills while helping clients drive transformation and create meaningful impact.
- Provide support in strategic development, process improvement, and organizational change initiatives.
- Analyze data to uncover insights, solve complex problems, and inform business decisions.
- Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge tools like AI, cloud platforms, and advanced analytics.
- Receive ongoing support and guidance from a mentor (or "buddy") who’ll help you grow professionally and navigate your summer experience.
- Apply soft skills, including communication, adaptability, eagerness to learn, and strong organizational abilities.
Advisory Consulting Summer Analyst
Agile, analytical thinkers with a strong interest in technology and business transformation. They contribute to high-impact client work by applying foundational consulting, industry, analytic, and technical skills, while growing through continuous learning and collaboration.
Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly synthesize complex information and develop structured, innovative solutions
- Skills & experience with data visualization and analytics tools such as Excel, Power BI, Tableau
- Data-driven decision maker with a strategic mindset and a strong grasp of business fundamentals
- Proactively curious and innovative—actively seeking to understand and leverage emerging technologies, including Gen AI
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity, making sound judgments with incomplete information, and driving forward with confidence
- Demonstrated communications skills via past work or leadership experience (internships, part-time jobs, project lead roles, leadership roles on campus)
- Proven collaborator who inspires and elevates team/classmates/club-members, while respecting diverse perspectives
- Demonstrated initiative, resilience, and accountability in delivering results under pressure
- Passionate about continuous learning and personal development, leveraging feedback and seeking growth opportunities beyond the classroom
Industry X Summer Analyst:
Enable clients to digitize what they make it, revolutionize how they make it. Transform how products are designed, manufactured, sourced, and serviced—driving productivity, growth, and sustainability through technology and process reinvention.
- Experience or exposure to applying AI, advanced generative AI, engineering, manufacturing, or supply chain concepts with examples of what they have built in academic, experiments, internship, or project settings.
- Familiarity with tools specific to engineering environments (e.g., CAD, simulation software, ERP systems, or digital twin platforms)
- Strong grasp of technical problem-solving within product design, sourcing, infrastructure, manufacturing, or servicing contexts
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including team leads and managers
- Detail-oriented and solution-focused mindset with demonstrated impact in systems/process optimization or operational efficiency
Song Summer Analyst:
Create human-centered, tech-powered experiences that grow brands and drive impact. Advisory-Song Analysts blend creativity, strategy, and data to reimagine how customers engage with products, services, and platforms.
- Interest or experience in areas such as marketing, customer service, commerce, or digital experience development
- Experience with research, process design, requirements gathering, data analysis / visualization, or program management through academic projects or internships
- Foundational understanding of experience, automation, and AI technologies, such as Adobe, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and others
- Familiarity with human-centered design, persona development, agile product management, PowerPoint storytelling, and design thinking
Strategy Summer Analyst:
Define & solve client challenges, build & inform strategies that enable C-suite priorities, and drive transformational change.
- Strong core consulting skillset, focused in using data driven methodologies to drive strategic insights
- Strong verbal & written communication skills and the ability to adapt to what you see & hear
- Utilizes exceptional problem-solving skills techniques to identify the root causes of client issues and create innovative and practical solutions
- Highly adaptable & continuous learner; proactively identifies trends, rapidly acquires new knowledge, technologies and continuously reinvents skills to respond to shifting business, industry and market dynamics
- Works closely with clients to analyze how their business is working today and how it could be improved for tomorrow
- Utilizes data visualization skills, charts, graphs and other data models to bring analyses to life
- Strong collaborator; partners with teammates to show support for their projects and lends knowledge
- Coursework or project experience in AI & data strategy, including applying AI tools to solve complex business or analytical challenges
- Driven and entrepreneurial mindset with an interest in shaping go-to-market strategies and translating insights into business value
- Develop recommendations using functional/industry expertise and market research.
- Leverage the power of technology to design for value and deliver growth, efficiency, and productivity.
- Development of business case associated with a strategic transformation, including costs, benefits, etc.
- Execute value realization tracking and ongoing maintenance of business case associated with a strategic transformation, including costs, benefits, etc.
- Conduct internal and external interviews, identification of opportunities, prioritization, roadmap definition, process design, and operating model design.
This role involves working in person—either at our offices, client sites, or delivery centers—so you can collaborate effectively and build strong relationships with teammates and clients.
Please note that with all of our roles, you should expect to be in-person for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities.
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Basic Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in any discipline (preferably Analytics, Business Administration, Data Analysis, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Finance, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Marketing, Mechanical Engineering, and Supply Chain) with an expected graduation date between December 2027 and August 2028.
- Prior internship or work experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with AI platforms (e.g., Claude, OpenAI, Gemini) including structuring effective prompts, iterating on outputs, and evaluating quality and reliability of AI-generated content.
- Basic understanding of agentic AI concepts: how an agent differs from a chatbot, and where multi-step AI automation fits within business workflows.
- If applying for Montreal location, must be fluently bilingual in English and French
- If applying for Ottawa location, must be eligible for Security Clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior internship experience in consulting, technology, or professional services.
- Project experience through work or coursework by developing and implementing solutions to solve real-world business challenges, demonstrating a consulting mindset.
- Leadership experience through student organizations or extracurricular activities.
- A growth mindset with a commitment to continuous learning and development.
- Familiarity with programming languages, data visualization tools, and/or cloud platforms.
- Knowledge of core consulting skills – business processes, organizational strategies, project management and an interest in technology.
- Ability to work with data to solve real-world problems and present findings clearly.
- Effective communicator in a presentation setting.
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with English-speaking stakeholders across Canada. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
How to Apply
You must submit a resume for your application to be considered for an interview. Application deadline is January 4th, 11:59 PM ET.
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Information on benefits is here.
Role Location Hourly Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $26.30 to $50.34
Toronto, Ontario
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