Macro Foresight - Strategy Consultant

About the role

The role is within Accenture's CEO Advisory business, specifically with Macro Foresight. This team works with CEOs and boards on enterprise-wide strategy and reinvention, focusing on anticipating disruption and volatility.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client engagements, owning a workstream from inception to recommendation and staying involved as the client implements the advice.
• Work as part of a team, contributing to small engagement teams and learning from senior colleagues.
• Create the analysis behind the advice, including creating models, scenarios, dashboards, and data pipelines.
• Use AI tools to redesign and accelerate workflows, improve research and analysis, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance project delivery.
• Communicate with and advise C-suite or board audiences, or provide depth in specific industry or regional political economies.
• Develop new offerings like scenario planning, wargaming, and foresight, and work with Accenture's AI engineering teams to turn these into productized, AI-enabled services.

Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years delivering strategy, economics, or advisory work in consulting, corporate development, investment, or research.
• A track record of delivering on client work, including running a workstream in a team, hitting deadlines, and holding your own with a client.
• The ability to turn analysis into actionable decisions, drawing out macro and company data meaningfully for a client's business.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to redesign and accelerate workflows, improve research and analysis, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance project delivery.
• A bachelor's degree in economics, finance, public policy, international relations, management, or an advanced quantitative, computational, data science, or engineering background.

Qualifications

• A graduate degree in economics, finance, public policy, international relations, or management (or an MBA).
• A strong grasp of how the real economy connects to markets, sectors, and regions.
• Experience with core offerings: scenario planning, economic impact assessments, or foresight.
• AI and engineering depth, including coding in Python and/or R, building models, dashboards, or data pipelines, and applying LLMs and AI agents to analytical workflows.
• Experience communicating with and advising C-suite or board audiences, or depth in a specific industry or region's political economy.
• Familiarity with tools like Python, R, SQL, Power BI, or econometrics packages such as Stata or EViews.

Benefits

• Market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• A 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including 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 as set forth below.

Schedule

Travel as needed.