Strategy Graduate Programme 2027 - 2028

The Role at a Glance

Accenture partners with leaders of the world’s most influential companies to tackle their most complex challenges: reinventing supply chains, designing AI-first business models, shaping sustainability agendas, and building resilient organisations. Our teams help clients understand complex challenges, explore their options, and set a clear direction, from responding to new technology and regulation to rethinking how their organisations operate. 

As a Strategy Analyst, you’ll join the Strategy arm of one of the world’s most respected firms. Our Analysts are not just delivery consultants: they are Reinventors who use hypothesis-driven thinking to design and guide business transformations, working on issues that matter at the highest levels. You’ll help global leaders make the bold choices that move entire industries forward. 

What You’ll Learn

Develop core consulting skills including foundational knowledge and application of AI through completion of our award-winning Analyst "Runway" training programme, giving you the confidence and capabilities to succeed as your career evolves.  

We know Strategy is a craft, so we invest heavily to make you one of the best. We see your first years with us as an investment in your long-term career, equipping you with skills that stay valuable for life. 

Life as a Strategy Analyst 

You'll be the architects of change, defining what success looks like before it’s implemented. You will help clients frame the questions, structure the hypotheses, and shape the transformation roadmap.  

No two projects, or days, are the same. One week, you might be assessing how new regulations affect global supply chains; the next, redesigning a client’s operating model for the AI era. Reinvention begins by identifying where shifts in technology, AI, markets or operating models can create value for clients.

You will:

• Support important decisions: Use creative and analytical thinking to frame the questions that matter to CEOs and boards. 
• Dig into data and research: Analyse industries, markets, and business models to uncover insights that drive change. 
• Create clarity: Turn complex ideas into clear, visual, and actionable recommendations.  
• Learn through different challenges: Work with people from different industries and areas of expertise, building new skills and perspectives over time. 
• Contribute positively to an inclusive team and wider Analyst community, supporting colleagues and sharing feedback and learning. 
• Be part of a thriving early careers community, with continuous learning and development opportunities designed to help you grow, build confidence and succeed throughout your career journey. 

What you’ll need

We’re looking for curiosity, creativity, and critical thinkers - not one “type” of graduate. 

You’ll need to have obtained (or be on track to obtain) a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university by your start date.  

• Any degree background is welcome: we want economists and engineers - but also historians, linguists, scientists, and designers who can challenge perspectives and bring fresh ideas. We also accept applications from holders of higher degrees. 
• Strong written and verbal communication - able to explain your thinking clearly, listen to others, and contribute confidently in discussions. 
• Flexibility, resilience, and a proactive mindset in fast-changing environments 
• Commercial awareness: able to make sense of business, economics, and technology trends. 
• Analytical comfort: quantitative reasoning, pattern recognition, and data storytelling. 
• Bonus: Excel, Power BI, Tableau or other data tools. 

Accenture values collaboration, bringing people together at least three times a week at client sites or one of our UK offices. You will be required to be in your assigned office for a minimum of three days per week and must live within commuting distance to make this possible. Project work may also take you to client sites across the UK, sometimes more than three days a week, depending on business needs. 

Why Join Us

We’re proud to be one of the World’s Best Workplaces™, with a culture built on care, inclusion and shared success. You’ll work with diverse teams, grow quickly, and be supported every step of the way. Whether it’s embedding sustainability, advancing responsible AI, or creating meaningful change - we’re committed to doing business the right way, for people and the planet. 

Our rewards and benefits include:

• 25 days of vacation per year, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to accrue up to an additional 5 days' leave through overtime. 
• Three days leave per year for volunteering or charitable work of your choice. 
• Pension plan with matched contributions from Accenture. 
• Opportunity to buy Accenture shares at a 15% discount through the Employee Share Purchase Plan.  
• Elective private medical insurance (extend cover to family, including online GP appointments and self-referral physiotherapy treatments). 
• Free eye tests and annual flu jabs. 
• Life assurance.  
• Access to app-based fitness classes and discounts on gyms. 
• Apps and tools to reduce stress, improve sleep, manage personal finances, and get caregiving support. 
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme for guidance on challenges like anxiety, depression, grief, relationship issues, or legal and financial concerns. 
• Opportunity to join various employee societies and clubs. 
• Enhanced paid parental leave entitlement (subject to terms). 

Visas

Due to minimum salary thresholds for UK work permit set by the UK authorities (UKVI), we are unable to sponsor UK work permit under this programme.

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