Description

Organization:  Management Consulting

Location:  San Francisco/San Jose, Los Angeles and Seattle preferred (also open to New York, Florham Park/NJ, Boston, Reston/Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Houston and Dallas).
Level:  Consultant

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 236,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.  Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. 
 
Join the Accenture Finance & Enterprise Performance team and you will play a central role in developing innovative business solutions that help CFO clients improve operational efficiency and transform their finance function into a world class organization. As a Finance & Enterprise Performance business consultant, you will support clients with capabilities in the areas of Corporate Finance, Finance Operations and Enterprise Performance Management to help them achieve high performance.

Our Finance & Enterprise Performance Trading Operations practice provides a wide range of business consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing services to our energy, utility, products and finance service clients.  These clients trade in various global commodities and build, acquire and operate assets.  Examples of the types of services that Accenture provides to our clients in this area include:
• Strategic Planning
• Program/Project Management
• Business Process Definition & Optimization
• Talent Management
• Organization Design
• Systems Diagnostics & Implementations
• Enterprise Reporting & Analytics
• Application Management
• IT Outsourcing 

As a Consultant within our Trading Operations practice, your key responsibilities may include:
• Assisting with business process and system selection assessments
• Creating process and functional designs
• Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
• Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes
• Participating in application build, test, and deploy activities
• Planning and executing data conversion activities
• Conducting test planning and execution activities

Travel is required and may be 80%-100% on a weekly basis (typically Monday - Thursday).

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Energy or Power TRM (Trading Risk Management) Consulting
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in the following areas:

o Measurement, modeling, and reporting of risk
o Systems implementation in the Energy, Power or Utilities industry
o Front, mid, and back office processes
o Credit management
o Physical market scheduling and settlement
o Accounting and controls processes and systems
o Front, mid, and back office system functional design
o Implementation of common energy or power transaction and risk systems
o TRM solution architecture
o Integration with ISOs or RTOs

• Current management consulting experience at a Top Tier Consulting Firm
• Ability to interact effectively with client executives, vendors and third party providers
• Ability to manage personal tasks and workload

Professional Skill Requirements:

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.