Highlights Accenture (IT Consulting)
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, committed to innovation. Join Accenture to be part of a company with a world-class brand and reputation, reinforced by a code of business ethics and core values focused on serving our clients, developing our people and contributing to the community as responsible corporate citizens.
Accenture is one of the world’s leading management consulting, technology services and outsourcing companies. At Accenture you can join ranks with 177,000 people in 120 countries and work with clients in nearly every major industry worldwide, including 96 of the Fortune Global 100, more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world.
Driving high performance
Whatever the project, it’s about helping our clients become high-performance businesses and governments. This would mean helping them identify and enter new markets, improve operational performance or complete a successful merger. The end product might be anything from a new IT platform for an oil production company to a new financial management system for government agency.
With innovation at the heart of our business, the variety of work is continuous as we collaborate with our clients to explore new ways of creating high performance. This will give you endless opportunities to challenge yourself with interesting work.
Leading the industry
Companies turn to Accenture because of our unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies. We are a trusted provider, with a proven track record of transformational projects and client satisfaction. That’s why all of Accenture’s top 100 clients have been clients for at least five years and 85 have been clients for at least 10 years.
For over 20 years, we have consistently produced solid financial results in both good times and bad, generating net revenues of $21.58 billion last fiscal year (ended August 31, 2009). We have a history of driving innovation and spend approximately $250 million on research and development each year.
Living our core values
Accenture is able to deliver leading-edge solutions consistently to our clients by bringing together highly talented people in a creative, collaborative environment. It is this environment that makes daily challenges enjoyable and rewarding and is one of the reasons why Accenture is a great place to work.
We take pride in living by a set of core values that have shaped the culture and defined the character of our company. They guide our decision making, as well as our interactions with our clients and each other.
Making a lasting impact
Corporate Citizenship is a fundamental part of Accenture's character and the way we run our business. We focus on using our core skills to make a real, lasting difference in the world.
Accenture is helping build skills that enable people around the world to participate in and contribute to the economy through initiatives like:
- Accenture Development Partnerships, which enables employees to deliver consulting and technology services to the development sector
- Pro bono and skilled volunteering, which provide “no fee” consulting and technology services to non-profit organizations
- Voluntary Service Overseas, through which employees can take a leave of absence to volunteer their time and skills to work for a development organization
- National and local programs, such as teaming with NPower to provide IT training to prepare at-risk youth for employment in the United States
We are committed to understanding and reducing its environmental impact in terms of carbon, water and waste. In addition to running our business in an environmentally responsible way, we provide sustainable solutions to our clients, choose suppliers based on their environmental performance and foster employees' efforts to reduce their individual impacts.
Supporting our people
As a professional services firm, the success of our business begins and ends with our people. Ultimately, we strive to create a work environment and unique culture that enable our employees’ fullest professional growth and enhance their ability to deliver high performance to our clients, while managing their personal priorities as well.
We are especially proud of the independent awards that we have won, as evidence of the progressive environment that we encourage.
• Fortune’s 2010 ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list
• Working Mother’s “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” for the 7th straight year
• BusinessWeek’s “Best Places to Launch a Career” and Best 50 Internships list
• DiversityInc’s “Top 50 Companies for Diversity” for the 3rd year in a row
• Perfect rating of 100 from Human Rights Campaign Foundation on its Corporate Equality Index and Best Places to Work survey for third consecutive year
Launch your career with Accenture
Accenture is hiring entry-level and experienced hire candidates for positions across the United States and Canada. To learn more and apply, please visit our website.
