Job Vacancies at Accenture Company - 4 Positions

Job description

Manage procurement functions on behalf of the customers through execution and coordination of a variety of delivery teams across Accenture's existing services. Appropriately manage projects to exceed customer expectations. Requires a combination of hands-on contract management and shared service coordination.

Talent Segment: Business Process Specialization

Key Responsibilities

Your role includes some or all of the following key responsibilities. You should review these in conjunction with career level guidelines to gain a clear understanding of the expectations for your role.

Category Management

• Establish, maintain and manage relationship between customer and supplier
• Implement and support enforcement of buying and contracting processes
• Define and manage contractual and supplier relationships
• Effectively raise issues/concerns proactively and present options for resolution
• Leverage Category Knowledge team to monitor category trends and conduct market research as needed to be incorporated into Sourcing Strategy and Category Plans

Contracting

• Accountable for contract management process on behalf of the customers for all commodities as required by the scope of work.
• Responsible for negotiating contracts and execute within parameters set forth in customers' Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Drive savings on behalf of our customers by conducting opportunity assessments/ risk analysis/ Return on Investment(ROI) analysis by utilizing Accenture's category experience
• Develop spend and savings forecasts for categories under management.
• Understand customers' procurement policies and work towards improving compliance of end users.
• Manage and develop supply base of assigned commodities with detailed knowledge of supplier capabilities.
• Direct a variety of sourcing objectives including manual negotiations, traditional Request for Proposal (RFP) and various online sourcing opportunities (including competitive bids and complex downward auctions)

Execution

• Review operational results and identify opportunities for process changes and additional spend savings
• Refine current sourcing strategy and recommend suggestions for improvement
• Define sourcing (buying) and contracting process, recommend to and obtain approval from the Accenture customer
• Formulate procurement and category-specific policies and lead implementation
• Partner with the Global Category Directors to develop and execute category strategy

Metrics

• Design supplier and user compliance management program, recommend policies and procedures, as well as implementation and performance tracking program
• Establish metrics [Spend/Saving Tracker, Key Performance Indicators(KPIs), Service Level Agreements(SLAs), etc.] monitor and report on supplier performance and compliance
• Define accountability for compliance tracking, Analysis and Reporting, and customer participation
• Perform operational reviews on contract performance and spending for categories

Sourcing

• Analyze spend
• Build and manage baseline data (spend, requisition/pay order(PO) process, supplier/user behavior and procurement practices) using external expertise as needed
• Develop sourcing strategy for customer approval
• Define sourcing and contracting process for customer approval
• Develop supplier evaluation and selection criteria as part of agreed procurement strategy
• Coordinate and respond to sales support requests as necessary
• Identify and evaluate incumbent and potential suppliers by applying established evaluation and selection criteria
• Manage all negotiation and contract development processes

Spend Manager
Define the overall sourcing strategy by category and/or project, based on customer expectations, market analysis and category expertise as well as oversee the execution of delivery when applicable
Work with delivery lead to ensure that procurement services are delivered in accordance with contractual/service level obligations

Stakeholder Management
Establish communication plan with stakeholders in each category supported, including Program Sponsors (Includes Department Leadership, Managers and Individual Contributors)
Act as Procurement Expert to guide discussions with stakeholders on program goals, plans and projects
Liaise with multiple departments (Category, Procurement, Legal, Operations) to ensure communication paths remain open

Objectives

• Value Creator
• Ensure Client and Project satisfaction and aim to increase reference-able clients
• Business Operator
• Maximize utilization, optimize Onsite/ Offshore mix and increase Client Controllable Income (CCI)
• People Developer
• Attend all relevant training and keep updated on trainings and tools available
• Career Level Expectations

Below are the expectations for all employees in this role. Please note that additional criteria may apply in some countries. If your home country appears in the "Country Specific Information" link at right, please click the country name to view the applicable expectations for this role.

Complexity

• Degree of difficulty of an assignment or the level of problem-solving assessment and resolution required, as indicated by degree of problem-solving, strategic vs. routine focus, and stakeholder interactions (e.g., Executives, Supervisor, etc.)
• Requires analysis and solving of moderately complex problems. May create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures.
• Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture.

Authority

• Power to influence or complete assignments independently and ability to make decisions, as indicated by latitude to devise work products or plans, reliance on instruction and decision-making ability
• Requires guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments
• Impact or Decision Impact
• Risk or consequences in the event of failure, as indicated by range of expected impact, such as within a team or across a team or area of responsibility and level of risk
• Decisions often impact the team in which they reside

Scope

• Degree of accountability for assigned tasks, our clients and/or the organization, as indicated by size of work effort and scale of entity and/or program
• Manages small teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture
• Experience in the procurement (sourcing and category management) of corporate services including one or more of the following areas:

IT Contractors and Temporary Labour

• Permanent Recruitment & Executive Search
• Sub-contractors
• Fluent English
• Experience of managing RFI/RFP/supplier management
• Contract drafting skills, plus knowledge of local labour laws, immigration laws wrt. Work visas, permits.
• Knowledge of local legislation relevant to procurement: BBBEE, PPPFA
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong client and supplier relationship management skills
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities, prioritise and deliver results with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Solid Microsoft office proficiency including expertise in MS Word, Powerpoint and Excel
• Technical and functional expert on a B2B contractor management platform
• Experience in new process and tool implementation: plan, implement and manage
• Supplier management
• Stakeholder management

Education

• Business related degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated Capability/Experience
• Contractor management experience
• Supervisory experience
• IQNavigator knowledge will be an advantage

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Job description

Cloud Infrastructure professionals develop and deliver hosting solutions to meet today’s growing demand for agile and cost effective computing solutions. Using both private and public cloud technologies, our consulting professionals implement scalable, high performance hosting solutions that meet the need of today’s corporate and digital applications. Additionally, our teams plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive next-generation business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Eagerness to participate on a team designing cloud based application hosting and data services.
• Assist clients with identifying opportunities to utilize cloud based services.
• Assist clients with the development of business cases and value realization plans for the deployment of cloud based services.
• Identify business requirements and corresponding cloud based solutions.
• Assess the full technology stack of services required including network, compute, storage, management and automation.
• Identify cloud ecosystem components across a variety of vendors that align with business objectives and meet technical design requirements.
• Compare and contrast alternatives across both technical and business parameters which support the define cost and service requirements.
• Apply Accenture methodology, Accenture reusable assets, and previous work experience to delivery consistently high quality work.
• Deliver written or oral status reports regularly.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
• Extensive travel may be required.
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
• Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
• Use considerable judgment to define solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture. Establish methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance.
• Manage small teams and/or work efforts (if in an independent contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.
• Plan and deliver transformations to IaaS and PaaS based IT sourcing models and architectures.
• Analyze as-is and plan to-be, develop business cases and roadmaps, execute transformation to cloud based solutions.
• Support in design and implementation of scalable, high performance hosting solutions using Cloud Technologies - including Compute, Storage, Networks, Communications, Workplace and Service Mgmt.
• Plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive business outcomes.
• Minimum of 10 years of technical architecture design, evaluation, and investigation.
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in 3 of the following 5 areas:
• Server Operating Systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.).
• Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure)
• Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)
• Cloud Management Platforms (vrealize, Gravitant, etc.)
• Infrastructure provisioning and management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

Preferred Skills

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
• Previous Consulting or client service delivery experience.
• Public and private cloud discovery, design, build, and migration experience.
• Architectural exposure to Windows, LINUX, UNIX, VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, IIS Server, SAN, NAS, VCE/FlexPod, and similar technologies.
• Technical/Team Leadership Experience.
• Personnel Development Experience (hiring, resource planning, performance feedback, etc.).
• Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.

Seniority Level
Director

Industry
Information Technology and Services
Computer Software
Management Consulting

Employment Type
Full-time

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Job description

Microsoft SharePoint Developer

Accenture South Africa is looking for technology enthusiasts who focus on application development, systems administration work, and software maintenance providing practical programming and technology implementation for business. We are looking for talented individuals that have experience with Microsoft SharePoint development and roll out of Enterprise scale SharePoint solutions.
The candidate will play a technical development role in an enterprise area responsible for driving the development and implementation of enterprise SharePoint applications. The focus of this individual will be Microsoft application development and implementation and hands-on development of web components for SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design, definition, planning, development, and implementation of MS SharePoint, APIs and web components
• Develop against functional specifications and produce technical specifications.
• Develop integrations to MS SharePoint
• Identify, investigate and analyses business processes requirements
• Developing, testing and implementing Microsoft SharePoint solutions
• Functions as a developer across multiple project assignments
• Resolves problems with software and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements

Requirements

• SharePoint 2013, 2016
• Office 365
• Enterprise scale deployments
• Development of SharePoint web parts
• Customization/Design using HTML and CSS
• Database security
• Experience with related Microsoft technologies including ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server
• Workflow development - tools such as Nintex, Visual Studio for custom workflows etc.
• Team Foundation Server
• SSRS, SSIS
• Strong ability to understand and interpret Business needs and requirements with the ability to move concepts through to proposal and finally successful implementation.

Relevant Certifications And Qualifications Is a Requirement
Relevant completed Degree or Diploma is desirable

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Job description

An exciting career opportunity with Accenture for a Senior Splunk Developer to work on an exciting project.
Design, develop, and configure software systems to meet market and/or client requirements either end-to-end from analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance (including testing), to delivery and maintenance of the software product or system or for a specific phase of the lifecycle.
Apply knowledge of technologies, applications, methodologies, processes and tools to support a client, project or entity.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, engineer, product testing in test lab/real world environments.
• Customize and configure Splunk to meet customer requirements.
• Develop, evaluate, and document, specific metrics for management purpose.
• Write complex code to install and manage the Splunk enterprise development.
• Performing advanced searching and reporting to help customers with the implementation specialized/custom dashboards.
• Performing maintenance and optimization of existing clustered Splunk deployments.
• Create Dashboards to monitor the traffic volumes, response times, errors, and warnings across various data centers.
• Monitor the web portals, log files and databases.
• Provide debugging and monitoring capabilities.
• Design and Develop Splunk for routine use.
• Work and mentor junior Splunk developers.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related degree.
• 4- 5 years of Splunk Enterprise development experience.
• 4- 5 years of experience using Splunk to monitor log files, databases, web services, and other types of monitoring end points.
• 4- 5 years of experience creating dashboard templates and user customized dashboards.
• 4- 5 years of experience of custom scripting within Splunk to implement more complex monitors and dashboards.
• Experience in requirements analysis, engineering, product testing in test lab/real world environments.
• Experience with software development, system architecture, and/or databases a plus.
• Splunk certification, a plus.
• Strong communication skills both: written and verbal.