Accenture Working Culture

Working at Accenture

Your work at Accenture could involve anything from programming computers, testing systems, processing reviews, helping to train users in systems, research and analysis, working on a client proposal and various other things.

Salary, Benefits and Work/Life Balance

• Salary: £31,000 plus an additional £10,000 bonus over your first 2 years. Staff can also buy in to the Accenture equity program.

• Benefits: Accenture offer most graduates 30 days’ holiday, a pension scheme and health insurance, 3 days’ charity leave, plus a laptop and corporate AMEX card as soon as you join.

The company also offers:

• Interest-free season ticket loan
• subsidised gym membership
• Life assurance
• Critical Illness cover
• Hotel and travel discounts
• Maternity leave (39 weeks fully paid)
• Adoption leave
• Paternity leave
• Car cash allowance (at manager level and above)

You can also join a selection of clubs and societies, many of which are subsidised by the company.

• Work/Life Balance: You will need to be highly dedicated and committed to your work at Accenture as there may be periods where you will work longer hours.

Consulting work can take you all over the country (literally anywhere, as you will often be working at client offices) and beyond. You may frequently find yourself working in a location far from your home office.

There are now seven options available for some employees, to allow greater control over how and where work gets done. These are: flexible hours, home working, compressed working, revised home/office/client site ratio, part-time working, job sharing and outcome-only working.