Finance and Performance Management - Risk Management Consultant - Location Negotiable Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Consulting professionals at Accenture belong to one of three workgroups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. These workgroups enable us to deliver the increasingly specialized skills that clients demand while providing our people with varied career opportunities.

Our management consultants have the opportunity to work and collaborate with colleagues from across the full spectrum of consulting activity: identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing and re-engineering critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates. Our management consultants are more than just theorists - they turn theory into action. Acting as trusted advisors to our clients, they work directly with FORTUNE© Global 500 companies across many different industry sectors. They concentrate on getting a holistic view of a client's business and industry environment and use their expertise and critical thinking skills to design and deliver realistic, achievable business strategies and solutions that address key client priorities.

Much of the work we do is at the cutting edge of innovation and thinking. We involve our consultants in publishing and sharing this knowledge as thought leadership to benefit clients, industry and fellow colleagues.

Finance & Performance Management group works with clients to develop and deliver innovative solutions that can successfully transform an organization's finance and performance management capabilities. We have the breadth of experience, global resources, superior assets and deep knowledge and insights to help the CFO create new forms of value and to help our clients become high-performance businesses and governments.

Join the Accenture Finance & Performance Management team and you will play a central role in developing innovative business and technology solutions that help clients improve operational efficiency and transform their finance function into a world class organization. As a Finance & Performance Management business consultant, you will support clients with capabilities in the areas of Corporate Finance, Finance Operations and Enterprise Performance Management to help them achieve high performance.

Risk Management professionals focus on transforming risk management functions from a series of isolated transactions to one of strategic scope and importance, encompassing all aspects of the entity, including investment, financing and operating decisions

Responsibilities include:

Engagements :

· Participate in projects in ERM, risk management and risk systems integration.

· Participate in consulting assignments in all components of Accenture's ERM and/or risk management methodologies including risk diagnostics, identification, quantification, policies and procedures, monitoring, corporate governance and reporting, and risk technology systems.

· Interview management and collect and analyze data from internal and external sources for risk assessment and risk diagnostics.

· Participate in key risk driver analysis, risk profiling and aggregation, risk model development

· Participate in identifying and developing risk mitigates, KRI's, KPI' s and risk action plans

· Assist in Identifying, defining and documenting complex business specifications for risk platforms and procedures

· Participate in risk technology/systems design and implementation

Business Development:

· Assist in the pursuit and proposal process by conduction independent research, summarizing Accenture's ERM and risk management methodologies and writing key sections of the documents

Domain Development :

· Conduct research as directed to advance Accenture's development of new intellectual capital for risk and ERM and to support the company's marketing programs.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree required with emphasis on business, finance, or economics.

· Demonstrated knowledge of the fundamentals of ERM and risk management.

· Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a corporate or consulting risk function

· Demonstrated experience in risk assessment, reporting, risk analytics, and/or risk quantification

· Familiarity with ERM or risk modeling software

· Ability to meet travel requirements, when applicable

· CMA/CA/MBA qualification useful

Professional Skills :

· Understanding of ERM and risk management and understanding of implementation challenges

· Proven ability to work in a team environment.

· Demonstrated quantitative and risk model building skills

· Proven ability to co

· Excellent writing, communication, and listening skills

· Understanding of risk modeling and/or ERM software, including:

- @Risk

- Crystal Ball

- Enterprise Risk assessor

- Active Risk Manager

· Solid financial acumen and financial analysis and diagnosis skills.

· Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills. .

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply.
Job: Financial Planning & Strategy
Primary
Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Other Location: Canada-Alberta - Calgary, Canada-British Columbia - Vancouver
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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