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The work:

The Chief of Staff (COS) is responsible for supporting progression of the Lead’s agenda and priorities. The COS manages across critical business priorities and initiatives to optimize the Lead’s time and impact. The ideal candidate for this position is someone who thrives in an ever changing, fast-paced environment and has the executive presence required to establish credibility and influence other senior leaders. Working alongside the Lead, the COS will need to operate with the sophistication, discretion and judgement such access demands. The ideal candidate is someone who understands and is energized by the complexity of the Lead’s role and is not only able to address “the issue of the day” but also anticipate, plan and prepare for future needs. The COS must be detail oriented, flexible and enjoy managing a complex agenda.

The Chief of Staff will be expected to:

• Ensure the Lead’s agenda is effectively represented in Accenture's core initiatives and leadership forums, as well as in internal and external engagements to build Accenture’s brand and profile and align with key business priorities of client service, people development and community engagement.

• Coordinate across the Office of the Senior Executive to ensure seamless support for the executive.

• Support/manage the Lead’s participation in internal, client, and external engagements, including prioritization and preparation for engagement. This will include proactive coordination across stakeholders, communications, sponsorship of strategic programs, and change management & culture change initiatives.

• Help set and regularly align priorities with the Lead. This includes updating and reprioritizing based on feedback and ensuring the leadership team is kept informed as appropriate.

• Anticipate time required to advance initiatives, priorities and manage stakeholders, ensuring progress is being made and parties are kept informed.

• Diligently follow up on all activities across Leadership Team to ensure key priorities are advanced, summarizing data & information in a consistent and easy to digest format.

• Proactively and seamlessly partner with other support team members which may include administrative, corporate functions (M+C, Finance, HR, Bus Ops, G&S), and others.

• Participate as an active member of the Lead’s leadership team including driving the agenda, ensuring parties are prepared for discussion, and driving strategic initiatives.

• Activate priority actions or programs with leadership team.

• Prepare agendas and content for leadership meetings, offsites, etc. Storyline development and overall meeting/presentation development for key leadership meetings including GMC, ExCo, LTs, and Board of Directors.

• Review email and manage response to achieve timely (daily) response, resolution and execution.

• Chair special project, for identified areas of focus, which can include performing analysis to gain insights; use insights to diagnose the issue, identify change required, and support developing approach plan.

​Here's what you need

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline

• 15+ yrs Work experience in business operations and/or finance in a global organization.

• Enjoys working in dynamic environment, strong critical thinking skills, analytical mindset

• Demonstrate confidence and assertiveness in working with Senior Executives

• Ability to independently manage multiple projects, Exceptional track record of building relationships with stakeholders

• Excellent communication, organization, time management and problem-solving skills and attention to detail

English is required for this position as this role will be aligned to multi-national teams where English is the common language across our Global Enterprise. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking multi-national teams, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

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, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario $131,700 to $278,100

About Accenture

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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