ATIOS Consultant

Job description

Role: Accenture Trading, Investment and Optimisation Strategy Consultant
Level: Consultant
Location: Abu Dhabi


Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Accenture Strategy provides an opportunity to join a highly skilled global group in identifying and defining value creation and transformation opportunities by delivering independent strategic and general management consulting services focused on the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer agenda.

The Accenture Trading, Investment and Optimization Strategy (ATIOS) Team is a specialized global strategy team within Accenture, that works with the world's leading organizations and governments in establishing Trading, Investments and Optimization Strategies. We work across 3 major hubs (London, UAE and Singapore), with a focus on commodity producing and consuming industries.
The Middle East ATIOS practice is looking to enhance its team with Consultant level individuals.

Key responsibilities may include:
· Conducting assessment and diagnosis of issues and challenges facing clients in the corporate strategy, investment, trading, risk management and commercial optimization space
· Identifying and planning actions/initiatives to help clients capture new growth and/ or optimization opportunities in volatile commodity markets
· Designing target operating models for Strategic, Investment and Trading operations
· Designing and constructing advanced economic models for the purpose of investment valuation and finance structuring
· Conducting advanced numerical analysis to determine pricing, supply and demand outlooks for energy and commodities
· Conducting detailed research to identify and rank key value drivers for fundamental market views
· Analysing balance sheet/ income statement and other financial data to identify company's strengths and weaknesses
· Assisting with the generation of request for proposal responses

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Desired profile

Qualifications :

Key Criteria / Qualifications
Required Experience
·  2+ years of postgraduate experience in either Consulting or 4+ years of Engineering or relevant industry (Energy, Utilities, Chemicals, or consumer products)
·  Strong numerical and analytical ability, willingness to learn quantitative methods and approaches to solving business problems
·  Strong communication skillset
·  English reading, writing and speaking fluency
·  Demonstrated ability to work with multi-cultural teams to deliver high-quality output in short timeframes
Preferred Experience
·  Previous experience in a top tier strategy consulting firm, boutique strategy firm, or consulting in a big 4 accountancy firm
·  A high degree of comfort with strategy frameworks and strong quantitative skills to develop financial or operational models and supervise data analysis
·  Trading or Investment Management experience
Consulting skills
·  Ability to develop and apply consulting skills and have the capability of effectively solving complex business issues
·  Organise and direct quality work
·  Pushing self and others to add value by meeting expectations and completing deliverables regardless of obstacles
·  Planning and coordination of own and/or team's work activities, to meet commitments and quality expectations
·  Maximises team performance by encouraging collaboration and addressing issues, that impact performance of team members (i.e., client and Accenture).
·  Strong communication skills (speaking, writing, listening)
·  Confident, poised, ability to relate to senior client executives
·  Leadership abilities - transfer vision into results
·  Strong interest in broadening skills, as opposed to being narrowly focused

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