S&PP Analytics COE – Advanced Modeling

Organization: Corporate Functions/Sales & Pricing Performance

Location: US negotiable

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People in the Corporate Function contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.

Job Description

The Sales & Pricing Performance Center of Excellence (COE) is responsible for the effectiveness and enablement of the sales methodology and sales and pricing services throughout the organization. The COE delivers services to portfolios primarily through the Sales Support teams made up of the Sales & Pricing Performance Business Partners, Analytics and Sales Operations.

Analytics professionals develop and mature business insights and processes through data analysis, partner engagement, and end user enablement.

Candidates must have the skills and interest to create analytical models and scorecards to help leadership better understand the underlying trends and key drivers of our business and support Sales and Pricing initiatives; work closely with operations team to manage and industrialize those solutions.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Conduct fact-based analysis and communicate insights generated from the analysis in a clear and concise manner

• Aggregate data from Sales, Finance and other functions to create management and operational views needed for fact-based analysis and decision support

• Create analytical models and scorecards to help leadership better understand the underlying trends and key drivers of our business and support S&PP initiatives

• Work closely with S&PP COE team members to create industrialized solutions

Role Requirements:

• Must be flexible with work hours according to shifting business needs

• Must have excellent internet connectivity and distraction-free environment for working at home, in accordance with local guidelines

• May be required to travel

• Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or other related fields with a strong quantitative specialization.

• Minimum of 5 years experience which includes:

  • Thorough understanding of Machine Learning Algorithms, Strong knowledge of predictive modeling.

  • Hands on experience in statistical software like R, Python

  • Extensive experience in SQL Query design or similar language

  • Analytics and Data Visualization experience in Sales, Pricing, Finance or related field.

  • Accuracy and attention to detail; ability to prioritize own workload and manage downstream stakeholders and resources.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Analytics or related field.

• Analysis skills: researches and interprets data: ADVANCED

• Oral & written communication skills: ADVANCED

• Python/R/SQL: ADVANCED

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): INTERMEDIATE

• Project Management Experience: ADVANCED

• Metrics Definition and Usage: ADVANCED

• QLIK/POWER BI/Tableau: INTERMEDIATE

• Excel: INTERMEDIATE

• Understanding of Accenture sales and finance concepts: INTERMEDIATE

• Salesforce / Google Cloud Platform: INTERMEDIATE

Professional Skills:

• High level of curiosity and creativity.

• English language fluency (oral and written)

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is $90,900 - $153,299 and information on benefits offered is here.

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