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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com. 

At Accenture, our philosophy is anchored in recognising that our people are multi-dimensional. We take an intersectional human approach to create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

We believe that equality drives innovation. Our commitment to accelerating equality starts at the top with our board and CEO and extends across every part of the company. This comes to life when our people own the equality agenda, making it part of their jobs – every decision, every day – and feel free to speak up and to act.

We do not tolerate discrimination because of differences, such as age, ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion, or sexual orientation. We want a workplace that is inclusive and diverse to that end we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs.

Join Accenture and help transform leading companies and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. With ever changing competitive landscapes we’re creating new opportunities for organizations; operating at the intersection of business, technology and operations. With Accenture, we have created what we believe is the strategy firm of the future.

Our team of strategists globally combine deep business insight and tremendous technology understanding within the context of our client's industry. There is no one player who can bring all of that together at the scale and with the degree of integration that Accenture can. This is what our clients' current challenges and opportunities demand of us and it is what makes us different to any other strategy firm in the market.
 

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The role

This role is responsible for the design and implementation of business solutions that drive industry, function and technology transformations, and to define the strategy and actions needed to achieve client business objectives. This role analyses current state and designs new processes and solutions leveraging established methods, tools, and assets, as well as implementing programs and interventions that prepare the organization for change.

Minimum qualifications, experience and professional attributes

Key accountabilities

• Meets or exceeds agreed chargeability, and any other relevant business metrics

• Establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with clients and have the ability to influence decision-makers, along with senior team members

• Exposure to the complexity of designing and implementing business solutions to drive client transformations across industry, function and technology

• As Is / To Be analysis with the ability to confidently propose strategic solutions using established methods, tools, and assets to drive organizational change, as part of a team

• Implementation of programs and interventions to drive organizational change, with team/manager support

• Meets or exceeds agreed charge ability, business development, professional development and recruitment; and market-facing metrics

• Develop a specialisation relevant to the practice

• Shares knowledge with others and helps to upskill junior team members

• Grow a reputational network and be known for chosen specialisation

• Work to client outcomes with autonomy, leading small teams

• Develop a deeper understanding of the sales process through participation in bid development

• Identify and share opportunities for growth

• Create consistently high standard products for internal and external audiences

• Develop a greater knowledge of practice capabilities and communicate with confidence

• Actively participate in the development of frameworks and methodologies

• Provide opportunities for learning across the practice through knowledge sharing

• Share experiences across the practice, providing insight into engagements

• The role requires a flexible and adaptable nature

Key levels of experience are:

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or equivalent industry experience

• Minimum 4 years of Consulting experience working alongside key, senior stakeholders

EXPERTISE:

Depth:

• Typically has a minimum of 4 to 10 years of experience doing similar work either at or outside of Accenture

• Expected to be a SME with deep knowledge in an area of expertise based on experience

Breadth of Knowledge:

• Expected to be knowledgeable about the work performed by their immediate team; may be knowledgeable about the work performed by teams they collaborate with

DECISION MAKING:

Impact & Risk:

• Typically receives direction and feedback from their supervisor on setting priorities or assigning and managing tasks on a weekly basis

• Expected consequences for mistakes in their work would include missing team deadlines and may be escalated to a managing director

• Involved in risk mitigation decisions for their immediate team or multiple teams

Authority:

• Responsible for decisions made by their immediate team, expected to contribute to decisions that involve multiple teams, and may contribute to business area decisions

SCOPE:

Problem Solving:

• Expected to provide solutions to problems for their immediate team, and may provide solutions to problems that apply across multiple teams

Complexity:

• Provided guidance and instructions to help them complete their work on a weekly or bi-weekly basis

• Expected to complete similar tasks on a weekly basis (not including responding to emails and attending meetings)

Span:

• Breadth of responsibilities extends across multiple teams' projects/work efforts

People Management:

• If people management is part of their role, typically directly supervises up to 6 employees, and indirectly supervises up to 20 employees

COLLABORATION:

Collaboration Internal:

• Typically has frequent exposure up to ML 5 and expected to do the following in meetings:

  • Provide status updates about their project-specific contribution

  • Answer questions about their project-specific contribution

• Typically has limited exposure to ML 4 - ML 2 and expected to do the following in meetings:

  • Mostly observe

  • Occasionally provide input

Collaboration External:

• If in a client-facing role, expected to interact with clients who are either middle or senior management and do the following in meetings:

• Provide status updates about their project-specific contribution

• Answer questions about their project-specific contributions

• Lead project status updates

At Accenture, we utilize the ABCD methodology – Areas of Impact; Behaviours; Collaboration, and Development when discussing individual performance and contribution.

• Areas of impact against your priorities

• Behaviors demonstrating our Leadership Essentials and core values

• Collaboration across teams to work as One Accenture

• Development you’d like to focus on to grow your career

Location: Auckland/Wellington

Salary range: $95k - $125k

Standard Working hours: 37.5 hours/week.

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• Holistic well-being program including health insurance

• Life & Salary Continuance Insurance

• 18 weeks paid parental leave

• Long & short-term career break opportunities

• Structured career development program

• Local and international career opportunities.

• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™

• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.

• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for New Zealand:

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work 4environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process, or have a preferred communication method, please email exectalent@accenture.com and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +64 44666056.

To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement.