Graduate Analyst - Talent Advancement Program

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Our 750,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Be the driving force of change for the world’s leading organizations

Rapid technological breakthroughs. Accelerating urbanization. Changing attitudes. Evolving demographics. Shifting global economic power. Unprecedented climate challenges. Your talent and creativity have never been more important than they are today.

As part of the Accenture Technology team, you help the world’s leading organizations navigate and adapt to a world of constant, accelerating change.

Who we are

Traversing 200 cities in 50 countries, and 23 services across 19 industries, we are one of the world’s leading consultancies. More than 569k people strong, we work as one team with a common goal – to create 360º value everywhere by embracing change.

Together with about 185 Ecosystem partners (Adobe, Alibaba, AWS, Drupal, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Workday etc) we help more than 6,000 clients (150+ in SE Asia) harness the power of innovation to fundamentally transform their business. 

What you do

It’s an intensely varied role. Part expert advisor. Part designer. Part engineer. Part domain specialist. Part project manager. It offers the chance to flex both the left and right sides of your brain. You solve all sorts of intellectual and technical business challenges. Across different industries, contexts, and scenarios.

For example, you could find yourself:

• Implementing cybersecurity measures for a social media platform.

• Migrating an MNCs HR and Finance operations to the cloud.

• Redeveloping investment processes and workflow applications for Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.

• Writing Machine Learning algorithms to help restore coral reefs in the Philippines.

How you do it

Your career entry point after graduation, your primary responsibility is to work with Senior Analysts, Consultants and Technology specialists as a team. Together, you help brands, organizations, institutions, NGOs, and governments use technology to refine, reimagine and reinvent how they work and what they do.

At a high level, some of your main tasks could be to:

• Understand client goals: Translate strategic direction and objectives from clients into holistic strategies and actions.

• Define the right problem: Conduct thorough research and analysis to identify root problems, causal factors, challenges, and potential solutions.

• Develop solutions: Optimize existing processes, or design new ones that enhance capabilities, increase efficiencies, drive transformation, and improve outcomes.

• Deliver solutions: Deploy Accenture methods, tools, resources, and assets to achieve intended outcomes, manage user reviews and stakeholder agreement meetings

The Talent Advancement Program is designed to help you learn and advance at pace.

About the Talent Advancement Program

The Talent Advancement Program (TAP) equips you with a robust foundation of theoretical knowledge, real-world experience, and domain expertise – everything you need for a career advising world leading organizations at the highest levels.

Real-world experience meets structured learning

From the moment you join you work on real projects that deliver real value. In parallel, professional mentoring and career guidance help channel your aspirations and decisions. And an individual progression plan ensures you build core capabilities and experience. Tailored to your individual needs, goals and interests, the plan sets you on the right track for a lifetime of career growth and non-stop learning. 

Specialization Pods

The TAP is structured around five specialization Pods; two for Consulting and three in Technology. Each Pod supports a broad area of expertise within Accenture’s core services and capabilities. Pods are assigned based on your background, interests, capabilities, and qualifications. Within each Pod, there are lots of opportunities to explore different roles and opportunities. As a technologist, you’re based in one of the following areas:

• Cloud First: Helping organizations migrate applications, data and infrastructure to the cloud. Core skills include Site reliability engineering; Cloud services; Network and security engineering; Full stack technologies; Dev sec ops; Test automation and Agile.

• Delivery Lifecycle Management: Helping businesses effectively manage and govern end-to-end project delivery and program control processes. Core skills include Project management; Issue & risk management; Conducting agile scrums; Setting up Delivery control tools, and Delivery metrics and governance.

• Software platforms: Helping organizations implement industry-leading technologies and business optimization solutions for present and future needs. Core skills include Translating embedded platform expertise into client-specific scenarios; Project management, Application, Technical or Solution architecture; Delivery metrics and governance.

• Business Analysis: Helping organizations uncover strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to performance and processes across functions and industries. Core skills include Business model design, Operating model design and Functional business analysis.

• Change Management: Helping organizations in the talent space by improving their business performance through people and culture. Core skills include HR strategy, Organizational design, Talent management, Leadership, Learning, Communication and Business readiness.

Who you are
Over half a million people work at Accenture. We work with over 6,000 clients, in just about every sector you can imagine. And we help them solve almost every problem you can think of. On this scale, diversity isn’t a box-checking exercise, it’s a necessity. We need different people so we can tackle all those different challenges.

This is about realising your full potential, so we’re much more interested in who you are than what school you went to, what course you did, or what your GPA is. But whatever your background, you need to demonstrate:
• A genuine passion for technology.
• A strong interest in problem solving
• An ability to assimilate information, synthesize understanding, and communicate effectively.

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

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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