Accenture Industry Specialization

Overview

Accenture's clients span the full range of industries around the world, allowing professionals with an industry specialization to build deep, marketable skills and gain experience that adds value to their professional development.

Working with key industry players in the Energy, Natural Resources, Chemicals and Utilities sectors around the world, you’ll develop innovative strategies, improve operations and reduce risk while offering solutions that span the entire energy value chain.

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Communications, Media & Technology

In Communications, Media & Technology, you’ll work with the companies that are creating the products of tomorrow, including:

You’ll use your industry-specific expertise to help our clients in the following industries seize the opportunities made possible by the convergence of communications, computing and content:

Communications

Our Communications industry group serves most of the world’s leading wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers. We offer a portfolio of services designed to address major business and operational issues. You’ll help our communications clients grow revenues, increase profitability and improve customer satisfaction.

Electronics & High Tech

In the Electronics & High Tech industry group, you’ll serve the clients in aerospace and defense, communications technology, consumer technology, enterprise technology, medical equipment technology, and semiconductor and software. You’ll provide expertise in areas such as strategy, enterprise resource management, customer relationship management, integrated mobile services, embedded software services, product lifecycle management, sales transformation, digital marketing services, supply chain management and merger/acquisition integration.

Media & Entertainment

Our Media & Entertainment industry group serves the broadcast, entertainment, print, publishing and Internet/social media industries. You’ll provide a wide range of digital services—including video solutions, marketing, performance advertising, intellectual property management, and content and media technologies—designed to help clients effectively manage, access, distribute, sell and protect content across multiple platforms and devices.

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Financial Services

Team with our clients to address growth, cost and profitability pressures, industry consolidation, and regulatory changes in a dynamic global market. Help them to transform their operations and navigate the new technologies that drive our economy. You’ll serve these industries:

Banking

Our Banking industry group works with retail and commercial banks, mortgage lenders and diversified financial enterprises—we work with 80 percent of the top 50 banks on the Fortune Global 500. You’ll help these organizations execute strategies to acquire and retain customers; expand product and service offerings; manage risks; comply with new regulations; and leverage new technologies and distribution channels. You’ll also provide software and services to improve the performance of our clients’ core operations.

Capital Markets

Our Capital Markets industry group helps investment banks (including 19 of the top 20 investment banks worldwide), broker-dealers, asset management firms, depositories, exchanges, and clearing and settlement organizations by providing consulting and outsourcing services to improve business performance. You’ll help clients develop and implement trading, wealth and asset management processes, and market infrastructure systems and solutions.

Insurance

Our Insurance industry group helps property and casualty insurers, life insurers, reinsurance firms and insurance brokers improve business processes, modernize their technologies and improve the quality and consistency of risk underwriting decisions. We work with 35 of the world’s top 40 insurance companies. You’ll strategize the use of claims and policy management software, and provide services designed to enable better customer service while optimizing costs and delivering products faster.

Risk Management

You’ll provide and implement solutions across the spectrum of Risk, including Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational and Enterprise Risk Management, Regulatory Reform, and Fraud & Financial Crime. From the outset, you’ll be involved in interesting, stimulating work that goes beyond mere compliance.

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Health & Public Service

Work with healthcare payers and providers, government agencies and public service organizations around the globe. You’ll help these clients deliver better social services and improved health and economic outcomes for the people they serve.

Defense & Public Safety

focuses on citizen protection, addressing defense, border management and public safety as a single industry group that reflects the growing synergies between national defense and homeland security.

Health

supports health provider networks, health payers and agencies that manage health service delivery programs, including oversight government bodies, research-oriented and health policy-making entities, public health care providers and government-assisted health insurance providers.

Human Services

provides solutions to help governments provide essential social services to citizens from birth through retirement, and at specific points in a citizen's lifetime. These points include periods of unemployment, sickness and retirement.

Public Service Operations & Management

focuses on public sector agencies, departments and ministries that provide core administrative activities and operational service functions by helping them reduce costs, improve services, drive new insights and unleash technology to deliver public service for the future. This industry group also covers agencies that manage a nation’s economy and society, including economic development, energy and environment, and pan-government agencies such as the United Nations and the European Union.

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Products

Work with clients to improve the lives of consumers. You’ll affect what people purchase, where they shop and what they drive, and have the opportunity to help create a more connected experience for travelers and influence how physicians, patients and pharma companies work together.

Auto, Industrial, Infrastructure & Travel (AIIT)

AIIT combines four key industry segments: Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Infrastructure & Transportation, and Hospitality & Transit. In Europe, we help make more than 2 billion trips each year faster and easier. We’ve helped more than 15 million people with vehicle service and maintenance requests, and helped more than 4.5 million people customize a new car online. Every year, we process 300 million airline ticket reservations, and every second of every day we help someone book a hotel room.

Consumer Goods & Services (CG&S)

CG&S serves food and beverage, alcoholic beverage, household goods and personal care, tobacco and fashion/apparel manufacturers around the world. For example, Accenture systems help support or process 50% of beer sold on the planet. That’s 18.5 trillion pints of beer per year.

Life Sciences

Life Sciences works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products companies. We helped one of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies reduce time-to-market by one third, bringing life-enhancing drugs to patients faster.

Retail

Retail serves a wide spectrum of retailers and distributors, including supermarkets, department stores, specialty premium retailers and large mass-merchandise discounters. Did you know that Accenture processes $1 trillion in purchases each year around the world? In fact, we helped 1 million Americans complete 30 percent of Black Friday’s total online sales. We also work with our clients on store design, improving the shopping experience for 500 million customers per year.

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Resources

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Chemicals

You’ll work with a wide cross-section of industry segments, including petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, polymers and plastics, gases and life science companies, helping them determine how to achieve sustainable growth in a cyclical industry.

Natural Resources

You’ll help lumber, pulp, papermaking, converting and packaging companies tackle overcapacity, increasing price volatility, capital-intensive manufacturing and slow-to-moderate growth in major product lines. You’ll also help iron, steel, aluminum, coal, copper and precious metals companies drive results by developing and executing innovative strategies, improving operations and reducing risk.

Energy

Help the oil and gas industry navigate the energy transition to build a safe, profitable and sustainable future.

Utilities Industry

Join a team with more than 30 years of experience providing electricity, gas and water companies with strategic and workable insights related to the world’s energy system transition.