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Performance Strategy Business Analyst

Accenture · London
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This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom. 

As a Principal Director you will be responsible for developing relationships with senior client staff, heading up major projects and ensuring lasting impact in business improvement. You will also be responsible for business development, nurturing and optimising existing client relationships as well as working on new acquisitions. 

Your experience will include a proven strategy consulting tool kit that also includes the ability to deliver large scale transformation projects and frontline productivity improvements.

You will be proactive, driven and take a team approach when interacting with stakeholders & ensuring recommendations are sustained.

Finally, you will have proven experience in a leadership role and will have prior experience working in a similar role with a global management consulting firm. Ideally you will have worked with a variety of clients in both delivery and business development.

Background and Experience:

  • Outstanding academic results

  • University degree or equivalent experience with a strong emphasis on quantitative skills, especially:

  • Engineering, Commerce/Economics & Mathematics/Science (While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses)

  • MBA would be an advantage

  • Double degrees and Postgraduate degrees are highly regarded in our firm

  • Demonstrated passion for results, with a track record of achieving tough targets under pressure

  • Excellent problem-solving skills, including ability to structure and prioritise effort within an area, and ask the right questions to get to root causes

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to coach, influence and build trust with senior managers, and achieve results though managing a team, prioritising the professional development of team members

  • Propensity to coach and guide younger consultants to deliver results and work through the line to achieve outcomes

  • Strong communication skills, including ability to construct compelling arguments supported by the right facts

  • Show an ability to influence and effectively multitask and manage expectations/deadlines

  • Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

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 approximately 791,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.

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