S&CGN - Tech Strategy & Advisory - Cloud Finops - Consultant

The Cloud Consulting Specialist

Join our team of Cloud strategists who use the cloud to re-imagine technology delivery, business models and revenue streams.

Practice:Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network

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Areas of Work:Cloud

| Level:Consultant

| Location:Mumbai/Bangalore/Gurgaon/Chennai/Hyderabad/Kolkata |

Years of Exp:5-9 Years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture
Are you driven by Cloud Technology Consulting? Do you strive to deliver client value by building and implementing advanced technology strategies? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?
Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

The Practice – A Brief Sketch
We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.
As part of the Technology Strategy & Advisory team, you will work closely with our clients as Consulting Professionals who design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. As a part of this high performing team, these are some of the initiatives you will drive:

Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud and Artificial Intelligence.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for todays connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Bring your best skills forward to excel at the role:

Required to apply Cloud Platform knowledge, deep understanding of FinOps and FinOps tools to guide the design and delivery of Cloud Financial Management Models including cost management and budgeting/ forecasting processes, capability structure and governance models.

Demonstrate good

analytical skills to understand client's as-is' state and propose cloud strategy

Work with clients to understand their business needs and develop solutions that meet those needs

Develop and implement strategies for clients to manage and optimize costs

Able to identify cost overheads, value realization drivers and guide implementation of showback/ chargeback and value realization drivers

Analyzing cloud usage data to develop and implement cost saving strategies such as pricing/usage optimizations.

Working with businesses to develop cloud budgeting and forecasting plans.

Educating businesses about cloud computing costs and best practices.

Drive in-depth

knowledge and understanding of key value drivers of a business and how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.

Maximize your capacity to bring value-added

thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market

Lead

proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and define the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains

Use your

problem-solving and critical thinking skills to effectively manage diverse projects, delivering against tight deadlines in a fast paced and demanding environment

Develop

communication and client handling skills to develop, manage and deepen relationships with key stakeholders

Leverage

team building skills to collaborate, work and motivate teams with diverse skills and experience to achieve goals

Build on

leadership skills along with strong communication, problem solving, organizational and delegation skills to nurture and inspire team members

Manage multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate, and implement programs.

Keep up-to-date on the latest FinOps trends and accordingly develop our offerings and assets

Mentor and develop our people

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Qualifications

Your experience counts!

MBA from a tier 1 institute (Preferred)

Your prior experience in one or more of the following is important –

Cloud Assessment:Cloud readiness maturity assessment, planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms, application assessment and migration planning, cloud operating model design, TCO and platform vendor evaluation

Cloud Architecture:Experience with private, public and hybrid cloud architectures, pros/cons, Microservices architecture and Hybrid cloud integration architecture

Cloud-native application development, DevOps and data integration across and within cloud platform

Cloud Migration:Delivering cloud migration roadmaps and managing execution from a project management perspective.

Cloud Deployment across various hyper-scaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and models (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), containers and virtualization platforms (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.)

Help solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment

Oversee the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development and operating models

Deep experience within one or more of the following Industries:Banking, Capital Markets, Telecom, Media, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Retail or Consumer Goods

Experience in working with large US and UK&I clients (Preferred)

Experience with Cloud CSP billing and cost management portals

Certifications – FinOps Certified Practitioner, Cloud Architect Certified (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)

What’s in the for you?

An opportunity to work on

transformative projects with key G2000 clients

Potential to

Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.

Ability to embed

responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.

Personalized training modules to develop your

strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities

Opportunity to thrive in a

culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:
Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world.For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network
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