Strategy_ATIOS_Strategy Analyst

Role: Strategy Graduate Programme
Level: Analyst
Location: Bangkok
 

About Accenture  
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, Accenture Strategy empowers clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

The Accenture Trading, Investments & Optimization Strategy practice (ATIOS), part of Accenture Strategy, is a global practice operating across multiple industries. It is one of the few global strategy practices which provides a very steep cross-industry learning curve and a truly global professional experience, working with organizations focused on commodity production, trading, logistics and marketing.

We combine our unique industry knowledge in the energy, chemicals, soft commodities, agriculture, metals, mining, utilities, transportation and consumer goods amongst others with analytics-powered core strategy consulting skills, digital and applied intelligence to create unsurpassed value for our clients across the world.

We are known within Accenture for the variety and complexity of business issues we solve for our clients, our close-knit global team, empowerment of resources to hold responsibility early on, potential for rapid career progression and international exposure, having delivered projects in over 25 countries. Further, our group creates a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-functional environment for you to learn, develop and succeed.

Our four core capability areas are:

1)               Trading and Risk Management: working with commodity-centric organizations to set-up and expand their commodity trading and risk management activities, partnering with them to optimize product margin, enhance supply certainty, and reduce price/volumetric volatility through state-of-the-art analytics, AI, and risk management techniques.

2)               Investment Valuation & Financial Structuring: We work collaboratively with clients to shape investment / divestment transactions, devise investment strategies, support corporate restructuring, capital planning, balance-sheet optimization and other core strategic priorities around their asset portfolio

3)               Optimization: Also, we help clients create value by optimizing their value chain, be it through developing a new strategic direction because of digital disruption or market uncertainty, helping them grow and enter new markets, or even devising new, innovative and agile business models to help them pivot to the New. Underpinning this work, we also regularly partner with our clients to enhance their corporate functions' strategies and agility in support of the wider business model and strategic plan.

4)               Energy Transition: Finally, we work with clients to shape their strategies to develop new businesses on the energy transition and shape their overall go to market approach, operating model and implementation for these new business models such as electricity, hydrogen, carbon markets, etc.

Key responsibilities:

Client Delivery and Development

• Global project experience both in Thailand but also in Southeast Asia and globally as part of the ATIOS Global Strategy project staffing pool
• Work within cross-office project and client teams including both ATIOS Thailand and global ATIOS to solve complex business issues in one of our three core capability areas, bringing structure and rigorous quantitative and qualitative skills to deliver actionable recommendations, insights and results
• Work within project workstreams with supervision to identify value creation opportunities for our clients
• Work on and develop elements of analysis required to support project delivery
• Support client interviews and workshops, develop presentation materials and recommendations
• Work on topics including corporate strategy development, trading and risk management capability set-up, operating model design, commercial optimization, investment valuation and financial structuring, balance sheet analysis, energy market liberalization, energy transition and advanced numerical modelling of energy and commodity markets

Practice Building

• Contribute to developing the ATIOS Thailand, ATIOS Global and wider Accenture Strategy practice and community, and building ATIOS offerings, assets and thought leadership
• Support internal Business Development activities by conducting and managing industry and company-specific research (competitors, market scanning and market fundamentals, financials, customers, etc.), as well as the development of client proposal presentations

Required Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree or master’s degree from a leading academic institution
• You’ll need to be a critical, creative and deep strategic thinker and able to break down and solve problems structurally and be able to demonstrate project evidence of this on your CV
• It’s also important that you are a natural leader, effective relationship builder and collaborative teammate who’s digitally savvy and up for a challenge
• With strong communication skills, you should feel comfortable leading workshops and have good presentation skills
• You will also need to be intellectually curious, eager to learn and have a desire to help companies turn disruption into opportunity through strategies that enable them to successfully execute with equal strength across growth, profitability sustainability and trust
• You should have the ability to work effectively in ambiguous and ever-changing environments
• Quantitative and analytical skills and a real passion for business and technology are key. Ideally, you will have taken classes in statistics or data analytics and will know how to work data visualisation tools (PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx) or programming languages (R, Python, Julia, SQL)
• Experience in international or multicultural work and education would be preferable
• An interest in commodities markets, the energy sector and the energy transition are highly desirable
• Proficiency to communicate verbally and in writing in English and Thai

Why join us?  

• We offer a differentiated, fast paced approach career progression and employee offering which is unique to Strategy, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues in ATIOS Thailand and Global ATIOS
• You will have the chance to work with leading business executives in Thailand and globally to drive the most pressing business issues of our time and solve top-agenda topics with our clients
• You will have the opportunity to work within Thailand as well as travel in Southeast Asia and globally for strategy projects, providing professional development opportunities around the world throughout Global ATIOS network
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools 
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards 
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends 

Next Steps 

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