Management Consultant - Life, Pensions & Investments

Within Accenture, the UK Insurance Strategy & Consulting team focuses on scoping and shaping large transformational engagements for leading providers across the market. We help our Life, Pensions & Investments clients drive innovation through our deep Industry experience, extensive capabilities, proven assets & market insights both in the UK and globally.

With a strong and extensive client portfolio across Life, Wealth, Pensions, and Investment clients we support the full breadth of business change from defining market participation strategies and designing retail advice and distribution models, through to shaping and delivering digital customer journeys. Our work involves complex platform and technology transformations, including large‑scale re‑platforming programmes, optimising operating models and sourcing arrangements, and supporting clients through major M&A activity - covering deal strategy and diligence, as well as post‑deal target operating model design and integration delivery.

We were recently awarded a Gold rating for Insurance in the Financial Times report on the UK’s Leading Management Consultants.

• Invent & provide solutions to real world problems across our Insurance clients, leveraging the latest technologies such as Gen AI
• Build deep client relationships and bring together the wider Accenture capability – including Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song, Operations – to create differentiated offerings and enable the best solutions to our clients.
• Deliver tangible, transformational change for clients and develop points of view and results that lead the market sector.

• Help define industry solutions & offerings to help solve our client’s challenges, and support client discussions on these offerings
• Build your industry expertise and distinctive points of view to build credibility with client stakeholders
• Own and deliver interesting and industry relevant projects & outputs, to deliver market-relevant change
• Participate in and contribute to diverse teams, pulling from relevant areas of Accenture, to deliver a differentiated perspective and tangible change for our clients
• Grow and mentor junior individuals in our Industry practice, bringing your own personal story to help diversify and expand our talent pool

• Application of knowledge in one of Life Insurance/Protection, Annuities, Pensions, and Retail Investing for 3+ years.
• Proven track record of building and sustaining lasting relationships with senior clients.
• Expertise in particular digital technology and application to business use cases, such as journey to cloud, digital sales & servicing, analytics, product/policy administration.
• Market Experience in the Life, Pensions & Investments sector; anywhere from life office administration, annuities and pensions through to investment operations, retail investments, or product and proposition management.
• Excellent presentation and problem-solving skills.
• An appreciation of how technology can contribute to solving clients’ complex business problems; comfort operating at the intersection of business and technology
• Ability to be at ease with ambiguity and identify opportunities through innovative thinking

• Passion and enthusiasm for innovating in the financial services industry
• Being comfortable interacting with senior client stakeholders (e.g. C-Suite, or C – 1 level)
• Track record in industry or consultancy of shaping & delivering complex change
• Distinctive industry point of view and compelling articulation
• Perspective on the Financial Services Technology Landscape (e.g. FinTechs, Solution Providers, Cloud Services)
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in ambiguous problem-solving environments

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice

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