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Tech Value Strategy Manager
Midrand
Job No. r00237926
Full-time
Job Description
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets, and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
Our Global Strategy & Consulting practice pulls together multinational and cross-cultural professionals based at key locations around the world. No matter what business, no matter where in the world, our unrivaled industry and function experts help our clients to shape the future by creating clearly defined, measurable value. We are delivering on the promise of technology and human ingenuity.
You will work in the Technology Strategy & Advisory unit, helping clients in our focus industries to shape, architect and deliver exceptional value from technology. As an executive in this unit, you help CIOs, CTOs and the rest of the C-suite envision their technology target states and execute on their digital and technology-driven, value-led business transformation journeys.
What will you do?
- Lead workstreams and engagements that help clients align technology investments with business outcomes and communicate the value of technology to the business through data-driven cost transparency.
- Help clients redirect technology spend to from legacy systems and ways of working to more productive, cost efficient and effective technologies and operating models.
- Collaborate with Accenture’s global network of technology implementation professionals, operations and outsourcing teams, industry experts, innovation teams and ecosystem partners to identify and adopt real value, efficiency and productivity drivers that go beyond benchmarks and theoretical research.
- Leverage our institutional knowledge, unique assets and unparalleled experience of our colleagues in understanding the business value and TCO of latest AI-transformed and cloud enabled technologies and agile, product based operating models.
- Design, deploy and evolve technology financial management tools, processes and delivery models to establish continuous spend management.
- Shape, sell, and deliver engagements on IT spend and productivity optimisation, technology value assessments and technology debt management.
Who and what are we looking for?
- Experience working with a top-tier consulting firm or technology consulting firm.
- Bachelor’s Degree is a minimum requirement. Master’s Degree and/or MBA is preferred.
- Advanced experience value cases and financial analysis.
- Solid portfolio of engagements in two or more of the following areas
- IT spend management and IT value realisation
- IT and digital strategy
- Enterprise architecture, technology portfolio rationalisation and strategic technology decisions
- Cloud migration and infrastructure transformation planning
- Proven ability to distil and communicate insights and recommendations from financial and technical data to C-level audience.
Our offer:
- Challenging and rewarding job in a dynamic, professional, international, and multicultural environment with the best people and latest technologies.
- Opportunity to gain exceptional skills, knowledge, and experience on large-scale local and international projects often bringing together the full breadth of our capabilities from growth strategy to design, and from system implementation to managed service operations.
- Unique career growth and learning experience with broad access to a variety of learning paths, professional industry-recognized trainings and certifications.
If this sounds like the ideal role, career, and company for you, please apply online as soon as possible.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree is a minimum requirement. Master’s Degree and/or MBA is preferred.