Performance Improvement Associate — Data-Driven Change Agent

8200 Accenture Australia P/L Company; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate for our Partners in Performance team to drive data-led improvements for client engagements. You will be the primary source of reliable data and analysis, underpinning the improvement work with rigorous insights and real-time decision support.

You’ll coach client analysts and managers, validate benefits, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement across client organisations. Strong communication and Excel/PowerPoint skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university with excellent results (distinction average).
• Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics.
• Demonstrated passion for results.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure, and to use visual tools without assistance to assist in communicating insights.
• Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world clients operate in
• Your key responsibility is to provide rigour and accuracy to the improvement effort.
• As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritisation of improvement opportunities, and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation
• You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful
• You recognise when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you're the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas.
• You draw on and develop your leadership skills to help build the client organisation’s "wiring", to ensure the improvement effort is sustained by a culture of continuous improvement; by doing this, you ensure that our methodology becomes part of way your client does business, long after the engagement is finished

Skills

Analytics

Problem solving

Communication

English fluency

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

Undergraduate degree (top-tier university)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Accenture is seeking an Associate for our Partners in Performance team to drive data-led improvements for client engagements. You will be the primary source of reliable data and analysis, underpinning the improvement work with rigorous insights and real-time decision support.

You’ll coach client analysts and managers, validate benefits, and help embed a culture of continuous improvement across client organisations. Strong communication and Excel/PowerPoint skills are essential.