Skill required: Venures & Acquisition - Talent Management
Designation: HR Ventures & Acquisition Assoc Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:10 to 14 years
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What would you do? The HR Solution Architect team partner with our deal teams across Accenture’s acquisitions to design solutions across all core components of HR people programmes and processes, to enable the integration of our acquisitions. The team support the end-to-end deal lifecycle, from assessment of an acquisition in diligence, through to designing and implementing solutions to enable the integration of the business. The team has a high executive presence, working closely with acquisitions HR Deal Leads, business sponsors and acquired leadership, alongside reviewing and agreeing solutions with internal stakeholders.
What are we looking for? The HR Solution Architect will be assigned to various M&A projects and will be accountable for the success, effectiveness, and on-time delivery of HR due diligence and integration work stream activities. Core Skills & Qualifications • Knowledge across HR & People Programmes -Deep experience across broad range of HR programmes, incl. managing change programmes • Strong analytics/analytical skills (including strong Excel experience)- Able to identify and realize actions based on insight and trends • Total Rewards Experience (Compensation, Equity, Benefits, etc)- Deep experience in designing and developing new reward programmes • Presentation skills (including strong PowerPoint skills)- Able to manage presentations to senior leaders • Highly effective stakeholder and relationship management skills - Holds deep and trusted relationships across a range of senior leaders • Strong project management, leadership/facilitation of all levels of people inside and outside of your organizations- Manages complex programmes and deliverables across multiple projects • Risk identification, analysis and management, with previous experience of solution development or escalation.-Ability to identify risk, articulate to stakeholders and walk through mitigations • Understanding of HR systems (e.g. HR ERP systems, Performance Management tools)- Understanding of HR tools and how they integrate, and support people processes. Knowledge of HR tech innovation and change programmes. • Financial Exposure and commercial awareness-Comprehensive understanding of investment cases and impact of people outcomes to financial results.
Roles and Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities Due Diligence Phase (includes solution development)-- • Define and manage due diligence data validation approach and processes • Apply judgement to assess and highlight talent trends and risks, present findings, and influence decisions and integration strategies. Partner with Global and MU HR teams to develop solutions(e.g. TR CoE ,Service Career Arch) • Estimate costs for full integration of an acquisition into Accenture. • Coordinate across all key stakeholder groups, in particular heavy interaction is expected with Finance and Legal as well as Corporate Development professionals • Develop preliminary solution plan for key human resource decisions, including but not limited to compensation, benefits, perquisites, retirement/pension plans, payroll and career/reward architecture, incentives (short-term, long-term, sales force-specific, deferred), culture, HR compliance and policies. • Build strong internal relationships and collaborate with stakeholders to develop preliminary integration recommendations (e.g. Global and local Total Rewards leads, Global Talent Architecture, local HR Business Partners and stakeholders). • Drive the development of leadership compensation, Performance and Retention plans and recommendations for acquired workforce. Integration Phase-- • Plan and drive HR integration planning and execution activities for each V&A deal • Partnering with the broader deal team and internal stakeholders to develop a compelling employee journey in terms of all aspects of talent and people processes and activities; building upon previous solutions and an understanding local HR context. • Develop and deliver integration solutions across a range of key HR processes and critical areas (including career architecture, total reward and performance, HR technology, and people policies). • Participate in solution conversations with acquired leadership including HR and CXO group through the PMI cycle • Leverage insight and analysis to shape key integration decisions, supporting the understanding of relevant commercial and talent impacts • Project manage the end-to-end onboarding process for acquired employees; collaborating with other parts of HR Operations & local/global HR to ensure a successful new joiner experience. • Capture learnings and knowledge from the integration journey, sharing this across stakeholders and retaining experience for future acquisitions.