Data & Analytics Manager

Job description

Role : Data & Analytics Manager
Location: London
Closing Date: 18.09.17
Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 + Benefits
Travel: Up to 100%

Introduction:

The digital revolution is changing everything. It's everywhere – transforming how we work and play. Are you reacting to the disruption each day or are you leading the way as a digital disrupter? Accenture Digital is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. At the forefront of digital, you'll create it, own it and make it a reality for our clients. Join us and become an integral part of our experienced digital team with the credibility, expertise and insight our clients depend on.

Accenture Digital is powered by three practices – Analytics, Interactive, and Mobility. As part of our Analytics practice, you'll help businesses deliver insight-driven outcomes in entirely new ways.

Accenture Analytics supports clients to turn information into action by driving technology-enabled business insights, creating a "decision making environment" embracing social media, cloud, mobility, big data and legacy environments. We deliver and run the information strategy, architecture and governance that enable a "single source of the truth", empowering our clients to analyze that data for smarter decision making, actions and outcomes.

We invite you to learn more at: https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/understanding-data-analysis

Your responsibilities
Data & Analytics professionals are focused on creating business value by collecting and analyzing internal and external data to generate knowledge and actionable insight for the organization. This includes business process decision support at the strategic, tactical and operational levels.

We take our clients through the lifecycle of data management solutions, helping them to set a value driven strategy, and then to deliver it through the design, implementation and deployment of the resulting data management and exploitation capabilities.

As a valuable member of our team you will:
· Enable our clients to deliver value by architecting and managing the enterprise data supply chain
· Develop data management strategies to help clients assess and exploit the opportunities available from both internal and external data. This helps our clients deliver the digital transformation and add shareholder value.
· Assess the client's existing capabilities, identify desired to-be state and develop roadmaps to both deliver rapid business performance improvement, and to sustainably enhance clients data & analytics capabilities
· Advise clients how to set up, develop, run, and improve an effective data management organisation both in-house and as a managed service
· Architect, design and deliver innovative ‘on premise' and ‘cloud based' data management & integration solutions, taking into account industry best practices and regulatory frameworks (e.g. GDPR)
· Advise clients on appropriate data governance capabilities – including the analysis, design and delivery of applications, architecture & technology solutions to manage data quality, master data, and metadata (incl. data lineage).
· Support clients in their choice of technologies, applications and platforms to address their data needs, incl. data quality tools, MDM tools, Data Architecture & Integration tools with a look at AI integration (e.g. UMR, AI data policies, automated Analytics Model governance)
· Work closely with client representatives, Accenture colleagues and external partners throughout to deliver to agreed objectives, meet the client's expectations and address any concerns.
· Provide mentorship and guidance to colleagues within Analytics internally and on projects

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
·  Minimum of three years of relevant data management consulting or industry experience
·  Implementation experience and deep knowledge in any of the following areas - Master Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Architecture, Data Security
·  Experience with being part of and leading complex data management engagements including all phases of the project life cycle from scoping and planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and go live and maintenance
·  Experience in working with data management related technologies preferably with Data Architecture, Data Integration, Data Quality, Master / Metadata management related technologies
Set Yourself Apart
·  Be passionate about data!
·  Experience of range of data movement, data processing and data interaction tools like; Informatica, IBM, Talend, Spark, Reltio, AbInitio, Collibra
·  Hybrid analytics eco-systems including Database Management and Big Data solutions like Amazon Web Services (RedShift), Cloudera, Cassandra, HDFS, Google BigQuery, Teradata, Oracle, Netezza
·  Analytics tools like SAS, R
·  Visualisation and Reporting like Qlik, Tableau, Alteryx, Spotfire
·  Solid hands-on knowledge of data integration techniques and processes (e.g. data virtualisation, data matching & merging, data consolidation)
·  Delivery Excellence: Full lifecycle delivery using Waterfall, Agile and DevOps practice
Professional Skills
·  Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
·  Ability to take complex solutions and make them simple to explain and digest
·  Strong attention to detail
·  Excellent stakeholder management, communication (facilitation, negotiation)and influencing skills
Our commitment to you
·  You'll make a difference for some pretty impressive clients. Accenture serves many of the Fortune Global 100 on high-profile projects. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
·  Your entrepreneurial spirit and vision will be rewarded, and your success will fuel opportunities for career advancement
·  You will have opportunities to learn daily through training (formal and informal), assignments and collaboration with experts across the company
·  You will have access to leading-edge technology (incl. AI)
·  We have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice
What are the next steps?

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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 specialised 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. Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at http://www.accenture.com/ .

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 18/09/2017
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.