Position: EMEA Post Merger Integration (PMI) Specialist

Career Level: Specialist

Location: London

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Corporate Development is seeking a highly-qualified professional to join the EMEA Post Merger Integration (PMI) team as a Specialist.

Accenture Corporate Development is responsible for identifying and executing inorganic opportunities (V&A – Ventures & Acquisitions) that advance the Firm’s strategic objectives. We work with Senior Management throughout the firm, across all Markets, Services, Industries, and Geographies.

The PMI team partners with the Accenture Sponsoring Organization directly accountable for the acquisition, to integrate the acquired company into the Accenture ecosystem, establishing the foundation for business success and future growth.

The PMI Team drives mobilization of all front and back office teams, establishes the governance framework, works with the Sponsoring Organization leadership to design the integration model, drives all planning, execution, and at the end of the PMI phase facilitates handover to operations.

This PMI position may require travel and working flexible hours.

Key Responsibilities:

Responsibilities of the Specialist PMI position include the following:

• Support setup of the Integration management office : kick-offs, team charters and workplans

• Coordinate hand over from Due Diligence to PMI Workstreams

• Program Management of PMI Program including milestones tracking, actions follow-up, risk management.

• Coordinate activities across functional teams with focus on dependencies

• Proactively manage issues, risks and decisions required

• Implement proven tools, best practices

• Support preparation of Integration Leadership meetings and Steering committees

• Contribute to development of PMI Intellectual Property, including lessons learnt, best practices, briefing decks, checklists, templates

Qualifications:

Candidates should have knowledge about how Accenture operates with experience in internal facing positions (e.g., Business Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Sales Ops…) or consulting background with client exposure.

• English proficiency, both verbal and written. Proficiency in another language is a plus

• Ability to work on complex projects in a multicultural environment

• Ability to establish strong relationship and trust with Senior Leaders in a short period of time

• Robust collaborative skills

• Strong program management skills

• Ability to innovate and learn continuously (incl. use of AI tools)

• Professional maturity and personal integrity

• Strong work ethic

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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 approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.

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