<p>Job Description</p> <p>Procurement / Finance Technical Solution Architect, L6</p> <p>Location: Remote, East Coast Preferred</p> <p>Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.</p> <p>Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners, and communities.</p> <p>The Procurement / Finance Technical Solution Architect will support our BPS Sales and Solutioning Team as the responsible Technical Solution Architect in pre-sales / RFP processes involving Procurement, Supply Chain and Industry X sales opportunities.</p> <p>Key Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Support our Sales Team as Technical Solution Architect in pre-sales / RFP processes involving multiple technologies:</p> </li><li> <p>Manage/ Coordinate involved technology teams in on- and offshore locations across all aspects of technology relevant to the opportunity</p> </li><li> <p>Develop technical solution design and work with assigned technical architects and cost architects to create corresponding cost estimates</p> </li><li> <p>Present and discuss solutions with client executives</p> </li><li> <p>Present technology solution to internal executive approvers</p> </li><li> <p>Align technology solution components to business standards (including, but not limited to, SynOps, third party platforms and client technology)</p> </li><li> <p>Assess the business impact/return on investment for the more complex components of the technology solution</p> </li><li> <p>Facilitate client workshops, document business requirements and develop them into a proposed solution design</p> </li><li> <p>Act as customers' key contact on the proposed technology solution</p> </li><li> <p>Work closely with other Accenture technology teams such as Insights and Intelligence, Automation and Technology Consulting to create a holistic technology approach and cost estimate that captures all details, dependencies and assumptions of the technology landscape</p> </li><li> <p>Transitioning the solution to the Transition team for implementation upon contract signature.</p> </li><li> <p>Establishing oneself as a leader in cross-technology issues and risk mitigation</p> </li><li> <p>Establish relationships among key Sales and Solutioning, Technical Factory, Product Management, BPS Operations Capability / Offering, Transition and Delivery teams and other groups (as applicable)</p> </li><li> <p>Work with Product Management and Initiative Leads to support new technology assets and capabilities</p> </li><li> <p>The role may be expected to execute some of these responsibilities: Mentoring, Staffing, Budgeting and Capacity Management</p> </li><li> <p>Travel up to 25%</p> </li></ul> <p>Skill Requirements:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Demonstrated Procurement or Core Finance and/or Solution Architect Experience - leadership in prescribing or delivering technology driven transformation in Procurement or Core Finance</p> </li><li> <p>Demonstrated Technology Delivery Experience - Sales or Delivery experience with core technologies supporting Procurement or Core Finance</p> </li><li> <p>Experience with outsourcing applications such as ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Workday), eProcurement platforms (Ariba, Coupa), Finance applications such as Tradeshift, Trintech, Cadency, Blackline, High Radius</p> </li><li> <p>Experience with Procurement or Finance organizations understanding primary group objectives, key value propositions, and alignment to the wider enterprise.</p> </li></ul> <p>Qualification</p> <p>Basic Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (10 years) work experience (If an, Associate's Degree with 6 years of work experience)</p> </li><li> <p>Minimum of 5 years of experience leading and delivering technology driven transformation</p> </li><li> <p>Minimum of 5 years of experience solutioning, estimating and developing technical proposal responses</p> </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Business function process knowledge in one of the following two areas 1) Procurement (Procure to Order) or 2) Core Finance (Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Order to Cash)</p> </li><li> <p>Familiarity with BPS Operations technology solutions and functions</p> </li><li> <p>Experience with supply chain enterprise applications supporting supply chain functions such as demand planning, master data management, transportation management, carrier management or freight bill audit</p> </li><li> <p>Experience with multiple connectivity solutions (B2B Network Connectivity, Application Delivery / VDI, Voice and Call Center Capabilities)</p> </li><li> <p>Experience in automation activities</p> </li><li> <p>Language skills in a major non-English language</p> </li><li> <p>IT Operations experiences</p> </li><li> <p>Experience as a solution architect or business consultant in a client-facing capacity.</p> </li><li> <p>Previous experience working with offshore teams.</p> </li><li> <p>Technology Architect related certifications preferred.</p> </li><li> <p>Self-motivated ability to work with remote resources and teams</p> </li><li> <p>Strong project management skills</p> </li><li> <p>Well-developed risk analysis and mitigation skills</p> </li><li> <p>Strong problem solving, analysis, and design skills</p> </li><li> <p>Strong analytical skills</p> </li><li> <p>Strong communication skills and experienced in communication at executive level</p> </li><li> <p>Client-facing presentation skills</p> </li></ul> <p>Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York or Washington as set forth below. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here.</p> <p>Role Location Annual Salary Range</p> <p>California $132,500 to $271,000</p> <p>Colorado $132,500 to $234,100</p> <p>District of Columbia $141,100 to $249,300</p> <p>Illinois $122,700 to $234,100</p> <p>Minnesota $132,500 to $234,100</p> <p>Maryland $132,500 to $234,100</p> <p>New York/New Jersey $122,700 to $271,000</p> <p>Washington $141,100 to $249,300</p> <p>Locations</p>