S&C GN - Tech Strategy & Advisory - Cloud Finops - Manager

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About Global Network:

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, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers, and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital, and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 10,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialized and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Global 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 www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork.

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Consulting

Level

Manager

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune/Kolkata

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation.

As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client’s toughest business problems.

Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

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 Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

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

Principal Duties                                 

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. 

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of responsibilities.

• Lead strategic FinOps discussions with clients, identifying cost-saving opportunities and aligning cloud financial management with business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders including CIOs, CTOs, CFOs, and Cloud Center of Excellence teams.
• Analyze cloud and on-premise spend data to identify cost optimization opportunities across compute, storage, network, and licensing.
• Design and deliver cost governance models, optimization roadmaps, and actionable recommendations using Accenture’s IP and assets
• Support pre-sales and sales efforts by shaping FinOps propositions, building client pitches, and participating in proposal development.
• Identify and develop new FinOps opportunities within existing and new client accounts.
• Leverage strong cloud architecture knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, other CSPs) to recommend cost-efficient designs and architectures
• Knowledge of on-prem infrastructure cost modeling and software licensing optimization

Key Competencies and Skills:

The right candidate should have competency and skills aligned to one or more of these archetypes -

• Strategic FinOps Expertise: Strong understanding of FinOps principles and ability to align cloud spend with business value, including budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback/showback models.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Proven ability to identify, analyze, and deliver cost-saving opportunities across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and other CSP environments.
• Cloud Architecture Knowledge: Solid grasp of cloud-native services, architecture patterns, and cost-efficient design principles.
• Client & Stakeholder Management: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to engage and influence senior business and technical stakeholders.
• Sales & Business Development: Ability to support pre-sales, shape consulting offerings, build client pitches, and contribute to proposal development.
• Tooling Familiarity: Hands-on experience with FinOps or cloud cost management tools (e.g., Apptio, CloudHealth, Cloudability, native cloud tools like AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management).

Additional Information:

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, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)
• 9-13 years of large-scale consulting experience and/or working with hi tech companies in Cloud, FinOps, IT spend management
• FOCP or equivalent certifications
• Cloud Certifications

Experience:

• We are seeking experienced professionals who have led end-to-end client engagements, including strategic FinOps assessments, business case development, stakeholder alignment, and implementation of tooling and processes to improve financial accountability in cloud operation
• Led cloud cost optimization initiatives across multi-cloud or hybrid environments, delivering measurable savings and improving cost governance frameworks for enterprise clients.

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