HR Functional Lead Consultant

ACCENTURE PTE LTD; Penarth, High Street; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an HR Functional Lead Consultant within its Talent & Organisation (T&O) practice to assess current HR operations, design future-state processes and operating models, and deliver transformations that create measurable business value.

The role blends consulting, process transformation, and operating model expertise to drive organizational outcomes and enable adoption of new ways of working with AI-powered tools.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Business Operating Model.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in HR transformation, business process consulting, operating model design, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience in process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and business requirements gathering.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and analytical skills.
• Ability to articulate value cases and develop business cases that demonstrate how technology impacts people, processes, and operating models.
• Passion for leveraging AI and proven experience applying AI-powered tools to improve productivity, analysis, and business outcomes.
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Design new HR business processes tailored to business and transformation requirements.
• Conduct current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) process mapping activities.
• Perform fit-gap analysis to identify process, policy, and solution gaps.
• Facilitate business requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Drive HR process standardization and harmonization initiatives across business functions.
• Support the design and implementation of target HR operating models.
• Develop innovative solutions using established methodologies, tools, and assets.
• Implement programs and interventions that support organizational transformation and business readiness.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Skills

HR transformation

Business process consulting

Operating model design

Process mapping

Fit-gap analysis

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

AI-powered tools usage

Business case development

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

About the Role

Join Accenture's Talent & Organisation (T&O) practice, where we help organizations transform their workforce, operating models, and ways of working to unlock sustainable business value. As an HR Functional Lead Consultant, you will work with stakeholders to assess current HR operations, design future-state processes, and develop operating model solutions that enable business transformation. This role combines consulting, process transformation, and operating model expertise to deliver meaningful organizational outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design new HR business processes tailored to business and transformation requirements.
• Conduct current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) process mapping activities.
• Perform fit-gap analysis to identify process, policy, and solution gaps.
• Facilitate business requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Drive HR process standardization and harmonization initiatives across business functions.
• Support the design and implementation of target HR operating models.
• Develop innovative solutions using established methodologies, tools, and assets.
• Implement programs and interventions that support organizational transformation and business readiness.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Business Operating Model.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in HR transformation, business process consulting, operating model design, or related disciplines.
• Strong experience in process mapping, fit-gap analysis, and business requirements gathering.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and analytical skills.
• Ability to articulate value cases and develop business cases that demonstrate how technology impacts people, processes, and operating models.
• Passion for leveraging AI and proven experience applying AI-powered tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude) to improve productivity, analysis, and business outcomes.
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Business Requirements Gathering.
• Advanced Contract Solution Gap Analysis.
• Intermediate Process Improvement.
• Intermediate Change Management.
• Beginner Strategic Planning.

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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