Human Performance - PeopleSoft HR Consultant - Location Negotiable

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Accenture?s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.


Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses.  Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact.  In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change.  Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve. 


The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Business Consulting, Business and Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting.  This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

 

Job Description
Business Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation. Human Performance professionals help companies derive maximum value from their people though innovative business-oriented approaches to the human capital elements of the enterprise including workforce support and enablement and the management of change.  HR Transformation professionals redesign the HR service delivery model and related functional areas through a blend of technologies and organization-wide change management activities.  Their focus includes global, seamless HR infrastructure and applications, web-based portal to the organization's information, processes, and workflows, and integrated performance infrastructure.

 

The PeopleSoft HR Consultant will be a member of the Human Performance Service Line.  This candidate will collaborate with Accenture client teams to define, architect and deliver transformational human performance management solutions. This candidate will be required to demonstrate an understanding of processes and best practices within human resource functional areas and how to use PeopleSoft functionality to support those best practices. This candidate will also be required to do the following:

 

-Be able to create logical plans / approaches for activities or project segments for PeopleSoft HCM delivery
-Balance and prioritize his or her own or team activities to ensure critical items are addressed
-Perform a variety of complex or straightforward tasks within the scope of the function
-Keep supervisors aware of own and/or team?s workload and potential conflicting commitments
-Interact with client frequently around specific work efforts/deliverables
-Coach junior team members and provide advice on procedures/work methods to individuals who may be at the same level
-Effectively leverage his or own and/or team?s skills
-Exhibit working knowledge of functional areas by calling on previous job experience and training
-Consultant level candidate should have experience with large engagement projects and have participated in at least one full implementation project lifecycle

 

Qualifications

? Candidate must have at least 2 years configuration/functional experience with PeopleSoft HR modules

? Proven understanding of processes and best practices within HRMS functional areas and how to use PeopleSoft functionality to support those best practices

? Prior full life cycle implementation experience required
? Experience leading and guiding teams of multiple individuals

? Prior consulting experience is preferred

? Role requires 80-100% travel

 

Professional Skill Requirements
? Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

? Desire to work in an information systems environment
? Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
? Excellent leadership and management skills


All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development.  You?ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.  We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career. 


Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company.  Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance.  With more than 123,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended August. 31, 2005.  Its home page is www.accenture.com.

 

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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

 

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Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.