[ref. l30838501] Trading Development and Support Delivery Lead-Senior Manager
Location: London (with expected travel)
Career Level: Level 6 ( Senior Manager)
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.
Company Background
Accenture as a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.With 650,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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Accenture is a company that will allow you to learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that flourishes with shared success, innovative ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
In this role you will:
- Manage the Service delivery for an integrated Application Maintenance and Development service for an Energy Trading organisation
- Experience in running an ITIL based service (driving incremental improvements) for the Trading suite in a complex fast paced Production landscape
- Engage on Functional and Technical Architectural aspects with your team and the client providing guidance and insights
- Own the client relationships with the client Service Delivery Manager, Application and Business owners
- Manage monthly and quarterly service reviews as well as internal Quality Assurance reviews
- Manage the change demand pipeline via the product backlog
- Drive continuous improvement across all aspects of the service
- Drive forward the delivery of high-quality work on-time and on-budget
- Develop and manage high performing diverse and dispersed teams
- Provide functional and technical expertise to support design and implementation work
- Effectively manage risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
- Work closely with our clients to align their expectations with our delivery assumptions and plans
- Maintain your knowledge and experience of the latest technology trends and apply these in your day-to-day operations
We are looking for experience in the following areas:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree - STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) majors (preferred but not essential)
- Experience in establishing and delivering progressively larger and more complex projects/services
- Domain knowledge and skills in ETRM - mainly Endur (v18 or beyond)
- Knowledge of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) Front Office and Operations business processes
- Knowledge of the energy/commodity trading business – Power, Emissions, Gas, Commodities
- Prior experience of Endur covering end to end trade lifecycle processes with knowledge on technical aspects of integrating with other ETRM’s
- Experience of financial concepts - P&L, MTM, Financial Risk, Financial Instruments (derivatives traded products), settlements etc.
- Able to lead teams comprising of client and supplier resources
- Strong communication skills with experience of working with Energy or Utilities clients and ideally with delivery teams located in different global locations such as India
- Strong organisational skills managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities simultaneously
- Experience of line managing resources and project managing teams of client and supplier resources
- Experience of leading projects embracing the Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience of using different delivery methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall
- Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
What’s in it for you:
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.
Closing Date for Applications: 31/10/2024
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.