Performance Strategy Associate

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

• 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 rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort. As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritization 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 recognize 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 organization'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

• Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, 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
• Candidates will be assessed for the role they applied for. Based on their skills and experience, they may also be considered for other relevant opportunities within Accenture.