Enterprise Solution Architect for Financial Services

Accenture is searching for Enterprise Solution Architect (ESA) for Financial Services business unit. As an ESA, you will work with our most exciting Financial Services sales opportunities in Nordic, focusing on helping our clients to succeed. You will be a key member of our sales teams and also work close with our businesses to bring Accenture´s offerings, assets and capabilities to our clients

Accenture works with leading banking, insurance and capital market companies. Fast-changing regulation, changing client priorities, and technology innovation are trends that have  a significant impact on our clients business and operation models. Accenture operates at the intersection of business and technology, which position us uniquely to help our clients with their most important business and technology investments.

In your role ESA for Financial Services you will be addressing our clients’ business challenges, delivering lasting and distinctive outcomes and value in disciplines such as:

• Digital transformation

• Cloud transformation

• Operating Model transformation including agile and DevSecOps enablement

• Core systems transformation

• Risk & Regulatory compliance

• Cost efficiency at scale

As a part of the core sales team, ESA in engaged in the whole sales process from pre-sale to contracting. This includes extensive communication and collaboration with client stakeholders, members of Accenture´s sales and delivery teams, as well as our senior leadership.

ESA understand client’s and end customer needs and priorities and communicates effectively with C-suite and creates solutions that resonate with C-suite expectations.

As ESA, you own the end-to-end solution and drive the overall solution creation process by support from other Solution Architects. You assemble and orchestrate the team responsible of the solution. Together with the team, you develop fit for purpose solution meeting client and end customer needs. ESA together with the transformation director is responsible of finding the right balance between deliverability (we deliver what we promise) and winnability (meeting both client and Accenture business case expectations)

A balanced set of skills and behaviors is critical for a successful ESA. These include:

• Skills to drive the creation process of innovative deals with transformational impact to client business

• Orchestrating Accenture capabilities and managing dependencies

• Architecting solution to match client value proposition  and relevant commercial construct

• Driving end-to-end solution process with agility

• Creating an environment where people can be at best every day