Technology Strategy Cloud Advisory Consultant.
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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.
Accenture Strategy & Consulting
In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.
Key Responsibilities
Define cloud technology roadmaps and industry/functional solutions, advising clients on cloud-enabled enterprise transformation agendas within an industry context
Drive the creation of the value case, and exploit the innovation of cloud to create new business value
Develop service portfolio requirements including market and service provider considerations
Recommend the target dispositions for client’s landscape
Advise on the impact of cloud on the IT operating model
Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.
Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure
Collaborate with clients, ecosystem partners and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities
Lead creation of thought leaderships and assets that presents action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations related to the cloud journey
Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach
Key Skills
Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization
Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments
Management of team efforts at a client or within Accenture
Ability to pull-through business opportunities
Experience and understanding of core cloud topics – planning, design, implementation and use of information technology and information management systems and processes on the cloud
Experience in cloud advisory and/or implementation
Ability to operate cross industry, with preferred experience in Banking, Telcos, Oil&Gas, and/or Government
Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school i.e. MBA
Qualifications
Minimum 3-7 years’ work experience - at least 3 years in cloud advisory or transformation
Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively global technology services firm, cloud firm, or seasoned industry position focused on cloud transformation (and demonstration of intrinsic consulting skills)
Cloud certifications: Azure, AWS, GCP, Alibaba, Oracle…
Arabic speaking must and fluent English
Why join us?
We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live
Next Steps
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About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 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 atwww.accenture.com
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