Technology Strategy Manager - Financial Services

Role: Technology Strategy Manager – Financial Services

Industry: Financial Services

Location: London, Manchester. Edinburgh

Career Level: 7

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

Are you known for your ability to identify and solve the most challenging client problems through combining deep industry value chain knowledge and technology expertise?  Can you describe the value of technology such as cloud and agentic AI? Do you enjoy breaking down complex issues into logical parts and constructing analyses that drive actionable recommendations? If you show a flair for innovation, approach challenges with curiosity and are outcome-driven in shaping and transforming client businesses, then we want to hear from you.

Accenture Technology Strategy solves complex challenges at the intersection of business and technology. We take a specialist-led, value-based approach to helping clients identify the right technology strategies and execute industry-relevant reinventions that deliver exceptional business value from technology.

Technology Strategy is a critical, fast-growing component of our overall Strategy and Consulting practice. Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights and innovative ideas. Positioned at the crucial intersection of business and technology, we devise creative strategies for addressing our clients’ most pressing challenges and opportunities, based on trends, insights and data.

We help our clients reimagine their operating model, enterprise architecture, and unlock value from the emerging technologies such as cloud, GenAI, agentic AI and others – to rethink business models for growth, efficiency, and customer satisfaction. We help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we're investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impacts.

With your impressive knowledge of the evolving digital landscape, disruptive technologies, and trends in technology strategy, you will work in high performance teams to address priority C-suite issues with precision and speed.

As a Technology Strategy Manager, you will :

• Serve as trusted advisor to the C-suite defining strategy at the intersection of both technology and business, driving collaboration and teaming with the client.
• Articulate a compelling technology vision, informed by industry / functional expertise. Shape the role of data and technology including AI, GenAI, agentic AI in business strategies.
• Design technology operating models that integrate AI capabilities and foster AI-driven ways of working.
• Identify and prioritise value creation opportunities based on analysis of current technology footprint, for example, articulating where and how agentic AI creates new strategic optionality reshaping workflows, client interactions, and competitive positioning.
• Develop technology roadmaps that sequence technology investments across planning horizons, connecting strategic ambition to executable milestones and measurable business outcomes.
• Develop value and business cases for technologies such as AI or cloud, supported by market analysis .
• Pressure-test assumptions made by leadership teams, including AI-generated insights.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, synthesis, modelling, and scenario analysis. Validate AI-assisted analysis with logic, experience, and domain knowledge. Apply critical judgement to know when AI outputs are directionally useful vs. when they are unreliable.
• Lead project / programme or major workstreams, driving overall team and client deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members.
• Build strong relationships with senior clients that go beyond the workplace, including developing C-suite relationships.
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy.
• Identify and advance ideas for new business opportunities.
• Lead business development and build understanding of how to architect and position proposals and SoWs.
• Facilitate to drive results and gain consensus for action – being able to address difficult client conversations and engage senior client stakeholders to drive meaningful outcomes.