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Strategy Graduate Programme

Fast-track your career at the sharp end of business and technology.

Introduction

On this programme you’ll be a trusted partner to global clients, helping to address their most significant business issues. Part of a project team, you’ll drive innovation and support clients to define the case for change and execute business transformation agendas. 
 
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Working closely with professionals in other Accenture businesses, you’ll utilise your business insight with an understanding of how technology impacts industries to help clients stay ahead in an ever-changing world. You could be structuring and performing analysis and primary research, developing business cases and plans, or developing your skills to help clients understand the business applications of leading-edge technology capabilities. You will help to shape organisations that meet the needs of all stakeholders for current and future generations.

 

It’s an excellent opportunity to stretch your strategic mind and test yourself at the sharp end of business. You’ll also develop core leadership, problem-solving and people management skills, along with valuable cross-industry and functional expertise. Strategy careers at Accenture cover two areas:

  • Business Strategy is about helping clients develop new products and services in innovative ways or prepare for the digital markets of the future.
  • Operations/Functional Strategy helps clients to accelerate the performance of their internal functions to enable the achievement of their business goals.

Places on our Strategy Programme are limited. As an Analyst, you’ll need to be a critical, creative and deep strategic thinker and be able to demonstrate project evidence of this on your CV. It’s also important that you are a natural leader, effective relationship builder and collaborative teammate who’s digitally savvy and up for a challenge. With strong communication skills, you should feel comfortable leading workshops and have good presentation skills. You will also need to be intellectually curious, eager to learn and have a desire to help companies turn disruption into opportunity through strategies that enable them to successfully execute with equal strength across growth, profitability sustainability and trust. Quantitative and analytical skills and a real passion for business and technology are key. Ideally, you will have taken classes in statistics or data analytics and will know how to work data visualisation tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx) or programming languages (R, Python, Julia, SQL).

This programme is open to those with a degree in any discipline.

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Accenture is a people-first business which thrives on collaboration, knowledge sharing and building strong connections. Whilst there may be times where it is necessary to work from home, in order to feel fully integrated we expect that you work in-person on client site or at your assigned Accenture office at least three times per week.

 

You will need to live within a commutable distance of your assigned office, which will be London, but you’ll also need to be fully prepared to travel, as client projects could take you anywhere in the country.

Empowering Futures

At Accenture, we believe in empowering each and every identity. Because when we do, we start to build the truly diverse and inclusive world in which we all want to live. That’s why we’ve launched our Empowering Futures series. This series includes three different initiatives aimed at encouraging Female, Black Heritage and Social Mobility candidates to discover Accenture and what we have to offer.

It’s our commitment to equality. Our answer to inclusion and diversity. And our invitation to society to stand alongside us.

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Training & development

We believe that your career is your adventure. All this training, experience and client exposure is focused on turning you into a trusted client advisor; someone with deep industry experience and digital awareness who is able to become a future leader at Accenture. What you know is what we can sell to our clients. So we’ll invest in your development from your first day. And realising you need to be up-to-speed as soon as possible, we’ll make sure you have all the training you need. As well as an award-winning induction programme and a supportive graduate community within the Analyst Consulting Group, you can look forward to mentoring from some of our most successful leaders. The training you’ll receive will be wide spread and practical. It will combine sessions that focus on critical soft skills as well as the core capabilities you’ll need to develop into a trusted and successful consultant.

All training will help you get the all-round skills for success but it will be your experience that will really make the difference, which is why the variety of live project work we’ll give you will be so important.

Your journey

Our Consulting graduate programme at a glance:

 

0-3 months

Finding your feet

  • Six weeks’ onboarding training.
  • Key focus on networking, getting to know Accenture, core consulting skills, AI, Cloud, inclusion and diversity, and your support networks.
  • From week seven you’ll be placed on your first project. You’ll get stuck in and hit the ground running as you get to know your team.

3 -15 months
Exploring your options

  • Further exposure to our business.
  • Training in our strategic priorities of key technologies such as AI, Cloud, and more. Data fluency training, Cloud certification, Agile, communication training and bitesized sessions run regularly on core consulting hot topics.
  • We also have a comprehensive inclusion and diversity training programme on topics such as gender authenticity, racism, unconscious bias, LGBTQ+ and mental health issues.

15+ months
Ongoing learning and development

  • Build deeper industry and functional skills as you integrate into your future practice.
  • Opportunity to gain industry certifications.
  • Accreditations in tools and technologies.

Rewards & benefits

We understand that what you earn and the benefits you receive have an enormous impact on your quality of life. Because we’re always competing to attract and retain the very best people, we continuously review our rewards strategy to make sure it’s the best it can be. It includes:

  • Starting salary of £33,600 + £10,000 bonus
  • 30 days’ holiday per annum plus public holidays
  • Personal laptop
  • AMEX card
  • Interest-free season ticket loan
  • Generous pension scheme
  • Employee share purchase plan
  • Three days’ paid charity leave
  • Access to app-based fitness classes and discounts on a range of gyms
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • Critical illness cover
  • Hotel and travel discounts
  • Generous shared parental leave
  • Generous car cash allowance (manager level and above)

Application process

The info you need to know about applying to an Accenture programme.

1. Online application

Applications for most programmes open in the autumn. To apply, you need to complete an online profile. You can only apply to one programme in any six month period but if you are unsuccessful you can apply to other roles.

2. Discovery Portal

If you are suitable for the role, you’ll be invited to our Discovery Portal. This is an interactive experience and takes about an hour, but there’s no time limit. You’ll receive feedback within a few days.

3. Assessment Centre

If you’re successful at the Discovery Portal stage, you’ll be invited to one of our assessment centres where you’ll take part in a variety of activities designed to help us find out what your strengths are.

4. Technical Interviews

For some of our programmes, the final stage will be one or two technical interviews with managers from the specialist area you have applied to work in. We’ll give you lots of advice before your interviews.

5. Offer

Well done! If you’re successful in all the stages we’ll offer you a place on the programme and tell you your start date. If you don’t pass, we’ll give you the opportunity to get feedback.

6. Onboarding

Three months before your start date, we’ll ask you to provide evidence of your academic results and two references. We’ll then send you details of your training week where we’ll welcome you into Accenture!

 

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