Performance Strategy Associate

3003 Accenture (UK) Limited Company; City Of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks an Associate in the Partners in Performance team to act as a frontline change agent, delivering rigorous data analysis and providing the fact base used by improvement teams for real-time decisions. You will coach client analysts and line managers, drive prioritisation, and support idea owners to realise benefits while ensuring sustained improvements beyond engagements.

This role requires an undergraduate quantitative degree, superb problem-solving, English fluency, and strong

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university with a quantitative focus and 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 under pressure and present insights visually.
• Strong knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Coach client analysts and line managers, building relationships across the client site.
• Provide rigour and accuracy to the improvement effort.
• Facilitate prioritisation of improvement opportunities and use root cause analysis for issues.
• Support client idea owners with technical and analytical support to ensure ideas succeed.
• Validate benefit streams and ensure they are realised by implemented ideas.
• Develop leadership skills to embed a culture of continuous improvement across the client organisation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Fluent English

Leadership potential

Data analysis

Education

Undergraduate degree with quantitative focus

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

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. The Associate role is a frontline change agent for our clients. You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the improvement team uses to make decisions in real time.

Responsibilities include

• 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

What you will need to become a member of the Partners in Performance consulting team:

• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, preferably with a quantitative focus, 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
• Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

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