Accenture Trading, Investment and Optimization Strategy Manager

Accenture Trading, Investment and Optimization Strategy Manager

Location: Dubai/Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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 sof 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.

Strategy and Consulting is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Song, Technology and Operations.

We Are:

Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

The Work:

Accenture Trading, Investments & Optimization Strategy (ATIOS) is a growing team within Accenture that works globally to help our clients on commodity risk management, trading, investment advisory, commercial, value chain and portfolio optimization strategies and enable the C-Suite to cope with increased responsibilities from shifting macroeconomic trends and volatility in commodity markets. We work with diverse clients across commodity value chains for industries ranging from energy to soft commodities to capital markets.

• Develop and execute strategies to address the challenges facing the client, especially in Energy sector and Oil & Gas domain, including impact of competition, regulations, macro-economics, commodity markets, energy transition, and technological advancements.

• Manage project and client teams to solve complex business issues in at least one of our three core capability areas, including:

• Trading:

  • Help commodity trading teams set up and expand their trading and risk management activities across energy markets and other commodity value chains.

  • Advise clients on the top priorities of their asset portfolios and revamp their value chains based on market and industry conditions.

  • Lead analysis of clients’ businesses and advise them on how they can grow their product margin, boost supply certainty, and reduce price/volumetric volatility.

• Investment:

  • Support clients in their inorganic growth agenda across the investment deal lifecycle, including inorganic growth strategy, business development capability set-up, partner / target screening, synergy assessment, due diligence, post-merger integration, portfolio interventions.

  • Lead project teams to shape clients’ investment/divestment transactions, and help create innovative, agile business models that help clients pivot to the New

  • Develop business cases for strategic initiatives and evaluate the financial feasibility and potential benefits. Develop frameworks and methodologies to track and measure the value realization of implemented strategies.

  • Develop integrated strategies that leverage data science to drive decision-making in investment, trading, and other deeply quantitative domains, aligning with our clients’ business objectives.

• Optimization:

  • Partner with CEOs to architect future proof operating models embracing future of work, workforce and workplace powered by transformational technology, ecosystems and analytics.

  • Design digital strategy initiatives and assist in implementing digital strategy initiatives, including intelligent operations strategies, utilizing advanced analytics, automation

  • Identify strategic cost take-out opportunities and drive business transformation.

  • Provide energy consulting to help clients to navigate the energy transition through development of clean energy strategies and plans, new, cutting-edge business models, advising on sustainability strategies and developing market outlooks.

  • Identify opportunities to reduce carbon footprint, increase energy efficiency, and promote environmentally responsible practices.

• Strengthen relationships with clients to sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.

• Lead and conduct client interviews and workshops, develop presentation materials and engage in client conversations, articulating approach and recommendations.

• Mentor and grow a team of strategy consultants and analysts, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation.

• Travel: as needed, up to 100%

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Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in the consulting industry or equivalent in an internal corporate strategy / consulting role, preferably in energy industry.

• A Bachelor’s degree.

Bonus Points if:

• You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree.

• You know how global markets work, you have a grasp of commodity trends.

• You’re familiar with recognized strategy frameworks and techniques.

• You’re no stranger to business case development, financial analysis, and financial statements.

• You have proven work experience that covers one or more of the following functions: research and data engineering, data analytics, statistical modelling, machine learning, and/or AI / GenAI.

• You’ve been exposed to one or more of the following industries: energy, chemicals, soft commodities, agriculture, metals, mining, utilities, transportation, consumer goods, or capital markets.

• You have good quantitative skills, with Excel/VBA as a minimum and other modelling packages

• You’re a natural at leading or contributing to teams and delivering complex strategy or consulting engagements.

• You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, and a love of continual learning.

• You’re rich in Communication and people skills, and you’re ready to hit the ground running in a team setting where you’re a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in people.

Professional Skills

• Ability to breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses

• Proven ability to operate within a team-oriented environment.

• High energy level, focus and ability to work well in demanding client environments.

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.

• Strong leadership, problem solving, and decision-making abilities.

• Unquestionable professional integrity, credibility, and character.

What’s in it for you?

• You will be part of a diverse, vibrant, global Accenture community; teams pushing the boundaries of new business capabilities and emerging technologies and services, sharing their experiences and lessons learned with each other. You’ll have the chance to thrive in an environment where your ideas are valued and your voice matters.

• At Accenture, you will be able to work on meaningful and innovative projects, powered by the latest technologies and industry best practices such as event-driven architectures and domain driven design.

• Accenture will continually invest in your learning and growth. You'll learn from and work with Accenture’s certified practitioners and Accenture will support you in growing your own tech stack, sales skills, and certifications.

• You'll be immersed in the design and implementation of human-centric solutions to help solve complex challenges with some of the world’s largest companies.

Next Steps

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