Technology Strategy Senior Manager – Financial Services - ref. g04652503
Industry: Financial Services
Location: London, Manchester. Edinburgh
Career Level: 6
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As a team:
Are you known for your ability to identify and solve the most challenging client problems through combining deep industry value chain knowledge and technology expertise? Can you describe the value of the exploitation of technology? If you show a flair for innovation, approach challenges with curiosity and are outcome-driven in shaping and transforming client businesses, then we want to hear from you.
Accenture Technology Strategy solves complex challenges at the intersection of business and technology. We take a specialist-led, value-based approach to identifying the right technology strategies for our clients.
Technology Strategy is a critical, fast-growing component of our overall Strategy and Consulting practice. We develop company-wide strategies that exploit disruptive technologies, as well as advise our clients on how to reimagine their technology operations, architectures, and ways of working.
With your impressive knowledge of the evolving digital landscape, disruptive technologies, and trends in technology strategy, you will work in high performance teams to address priority C-suite issues with precision and speed.
Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights and innovative ideas. Positioned at the crucial intersection of business and technology, we devise creative strategies for addressing our clients’ most pressing challenges and opportunities, based on trends, insights and data.
With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the newest technology.
Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we're investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impacts.
Your responsibilities as a Technology Strategy Senior Manager will include:
- Manage projects or major workstreams, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members
- Build strong relationships with senior clients that extend beyond individual projects, including C-suite relationships.
- Drive collaboration and teaming with the client, while serving as a trusted advisor to define strategy at the intersection of technology and business.
- Articulating a compelling technology vision, informed by industry / functional expertise
- Shaping the role of technology in business strategies to capture market share
- Identifying and prioritising value creation opportunities based on detailed assessment and analysis of current technology footprint
- Shaping strategic opportunities which incorporate innovative technology solutions into broader business transformations
- Developing value and business cases leveraging disruptive technologies to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
- Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy
- Identity and advance ideas for new business opportunities
- Lead business development and build understanding of how to architect and position proposals and SoWs.
- Facilitate to drive results and gain consensus for action - be able to address difficult client conversations and engage senior client stakeholders to drive meaningful outcomes