Technology Value Consultant

Accenture PLC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extensive benefits package

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year for Charit

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Technology Value Consultant to help clients maximise value from enterprise technology investments across cloud, data, AI and automation. You will engage with CTOs, CFOs and senior engineers to build business cases and cost optimisation programmes that align technology spend with strategic goals.

Based in London, Manchester or Edinburgh, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to model financial outcomes and multi-year investment plans.

Qualifications

• Have experience analysing technology cost bases and providing optimisation recommendations.
• Are inquisitive and keen to explore emerging technologies (Gen AI, Agentic AI, TokenOps, Quantum, etc.).
• Have experience working with major technologies (hybrid cloud, data platforms, SaaS, AI, etc.).
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills that can be leveraged to influence and persuade clients.
• Are comfortable interpreting financial reports and linking through to technology spend and inventories.
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Helping clients estimate the value of their enterprise technology investments to support realisation of strategic business and technology outcomes.
• Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of technology trends on CTO and CFO strategy – e.g. the impact of AI on Business and Technology investment decisions and value realisation.
• Building client facing business cases that project the costs and benefits (financial & non-financial) of technology transformation while ensuring it aligns with business objectives.
• Supporting clients define and execute technology cost optimisation programmes across legacy, on-prem, hybrid cloud, SaaS, and AI deployments.
• Support clients to design and mobilise FinOps / TokenOps capabilities for hybrid cloud, SaaS, and AI spend to deliver cost transparency, cost control, and cost optimisation to improve ROI on technology investments.
• Advise clients on financial management concepts (transparency, chargeback, total cost of ownership, budgeting, forecasting) within CTO using industry best practice and frameworks – e.g. Technology Business Management (TBM).
• Provide insights and frameworks that help clients to make complex investment decisions that align to meeting their strategic goals.
• Support clients to move their financial planning processes from traditional annual budget processes to multi-year investment plans that fund products rather than projects.
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams.

Job description

Role: Technology Value Consultant Location: London, Manchester or Edinburgh Mobility: Up to 100% Career Level: Consultant (ML9)

Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you're engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects, on a daily basis? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how their value can be maximised in a client's landscape. Joining the team means becoming part of a community that serve Accenture's clients with the best and brightest insights regarding technology operating model strategy, design and transformation. Our values include challenging our clients' norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs. Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target operating models, based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage.

Your responsibilities as a Tech Value Consultant will include:

• Helping clients estimate the value of their enterprise technology investments to support realisation of strategic business and technology outcomes
• Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of technology trends on CTO and CFO strategy – e.g. the impact of AI on Business and Technology investment decisions and value realisation
• Building client facing business cases that project the costs and benefits (financial & non-financial) of technology transformation while ensuring it aligns with business objectives
• Supporting clients define and execute technology cost optimisation programmes across legacy, on-prem, hybrid cloud, SaaS, and AI deployments
• Support clients to design and mobilise FinOps / TokenOps capabilities for hybrid cloud, SaaS, and AI spend to deliver cost transparency, cost control, and cost optimisation to improve ROI on technology investments
• Advise clients on financial management concepts (transparency, chargeback, total cost of ownership, budgeting, forecasting) within CTO using industry best practice and frameworks – e.g. Technology Business Management (TBM)
• Provide insights and frameworks that help clients to make complex investment decisions that align to meeting their strategic goals
• Support clients to move their financial planning processes from traditional annual budget processes to multi-year investment plans that fund products rather than projects
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams

We are looking for individuals who:

• Have experience analysing technology cost bases and providing optimisation recommendations
• Are inquisitive and keen to explore emerging technologies (Gen AI, Agentic AI, TokenOps, Quantum, etc.)
• Have experience working with major technologies (hybrid cloud, data platforms, SaaS, AI, etc.)
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills that can be leveraged to influence and persuade clients
• Are comfortable interpreting financial reports and linking through to technology spend and inventories
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams

What’s in it for you At Accenture

in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found. #LI-EU #LI-MP

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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