Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 275,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
Accenture's Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, helpdesk services, and HR. We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients move ahead of the competition.
- Shape and drive a project from initiation stage to project close
- Ensures that project vision and goals are clearly defined and that key stakeholders are identified and on-boarded
- Manages project scope
- Defines the project plan, roles and responsibilities and communications plan
- Leads the project methodology, ensuring that templates and work instructions are clear for all project phases and deliverables
- Creates and maintains the project plan
- Drives to ensure that issues and risks are actioned and mitigated in a timely manner
- Management of multiple stakeholders across multiple business and technical groups
- Track record of ability to ramp-up quickly
- Creation of status reports for management stakeholders
- Facilitation of client workshops to present and validate and achieve stakeholder consensus on business approaches, requirements or plans
- 3-5 years+ project management experience
- Relevant university degree
- Fluent English
- PMP certified or similar qualification will be an asset
- Proven ability to shape and drive a project from initiation stage to project close
- Proven delivery track record in managing/supporting non-IT projects (e.g. Business) projects and stakeholders. Examples of such projects include ensuring the smooth roll-out of launches and enhancement to the business or to the business customers, continuous process improvement & cost reduction initiatives, operations assessments etc
- Ability to interact and influence at senior management level and above
- Demonstrated strategic thinking and ability to handle and address ambiguity head-on
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proactive in approach, self starter and requires minimum supervision in order to get job done
- Strong Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) skills
- Previous experience of managing and collaborating with large, disparate and often virtual teams
- Previous experience working in large multi-national would be beneficial.
- Opportunity to work for the most recognized brands in the world
- Attractive salary
- Online and classroom trainings (CIMA training /certificate for qualified employees)
- Notable discount for the language courses (incl. you and your family members)
- Social benefit packages including: private medical care, Sodexo vouchers, Benefit sport club cards, life insurance, professional photo classes
- Open communication among all employees and across the teams
- Ongoing mentoring and support not only during the induction period
- Friendly work atmosphere and chill-out spaces for chats
- Accelerate runners club and the participation in various employee initiatives
- Beverages (as coffee, tea) at any time you want
