Financial Services Tech Strategy Lead - AI & Data

Accenture UK & Ireland; Manchester; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Manager to lead technology strategy for Financial Services clients across the UK. You will shape multi-year roadmaps, orchestrate delivery, and grow the practice with high-impact engagements.

This role combines client leadership, team development and thought leadership, with opportunities to influence board-level decisions and collaborate across Accenture’s AI, data and cloud-native initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of large, complex technology strategy engagements with delivery accountability.
• Strong command of strategy methods including research, quantitative analysis, structured problem solving and executive communication.
• Strong financial and commercial fluency, including modelling, valuation, business cases and key Financial Services value drivers.
• Excellent board-level communication, influencing, negotiation and C-suite workshop facilitation skills.
• Proven team leadership, coaching, people management and capability development.
• Commercial acumen and a strong record of originating and closing work.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, assure complex deliverables and challenge conventional approaches.

Responsibilities

• Set technology strategy for Financial Services clients, lead delivery, originate work and build the practice.
• Lead technology strategies that align business goals, investment, market change and regulation.
• Prioritise value opportunities and present board-level options and trade-offs.
• Design operating models, investment cases and multi-year roadmaps with measurable outcomes.
• Link business priorities to technology investment, challenging assumptions with independent judgement.
• Define how AI, data and cloud-native technology enable reinvention and competitive advantage.
• Lead scalable AI and data strategies, operating models and governance roadmaps.
• Address model risk, data governance, resilience and regulatory requirements.
• Use AI to accelerate analysis while independently validating outputs.
• Lead complex, concurrent engagements, accountable for outcomes, quality and coherence.
• Own engagement scope, mobilisation, commercials and financial performance.
• Build trusted C-suite relationships and deliver clear, challenging advice.
• Align senior stakeholders on direction, investment, expectations and delivery risk.
• Lead, coach and develop teams, including recruitment and performance management.
• Shape practice strategy, targets, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Champion Accenture's values and recognise others' contributions.
• Meet the chargeability target [align to current practice target], with remaining time focused on sales and practice building.
• Lead business development from opportunity identification to close.
• Shape propositions, RFP responses, proposals and statements of work.
• Drive cross-Accenture sales through client relationships and internal collaboration.
• Publish thought leadership and represent the practice at industry events.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy methods

Financial fluency

Board-level comms

Team leadership

Commercial acumen

Problem structuring

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA advantageous

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Manager to lead technology strategy for Financial Services clients across the UK. You will shape multi-year roadmaps, orchestrate delivery, and grow the practice with high-impact engagements.

This role combines client leadership, team development and thought leadership, with opportunities to influence board-level decisions and collaborate across Accenture’s AI, data and cloud-native initiatives.