Project Manager and Functional Analyst

Job Description

Role: Project Manager and Functional Analyst

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Accenture: Your Unique Place in our Global Collective

Being part of Industry & Enterprise means becoming an expert at making the New Happen Now. To us, the New is all about the pivot that turns constant disruption to continuous reinvention. We are an innovation-led company that works at the heart of our clients’ organisations so that no matter how sophisticated the business challenge, we face the future with confidence.

We combine deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will affect industry and business models to shape our clients’ future.

Our Teams

• Drive end-to-end transformation - Combine data driven insights with expertise and experience to connect the end-to-end capabilities needed to inspire change.
• Lead epic disruption - Co-create and iterate with colleagues and clients to reinvent and reshape industries.
• Partner with the biggest clients - Gain unrivalled exposure to industry standard methodologies working with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 across 40+ industries in 120+ countries.

Join our Health and Public Service (H&PS) Industry Practice within Industry & Enterprise, where we help Ireland's public sector clients on their change transformation journeys and do work that matters for the citizens of Ireland! Bring your passion and experience to deliver ground-breaking projects to support our clients, from industry consulting, strategic direction, to process improvement and technology transformations, while building your skills and capabilities.

Role & client responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business requirements through workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, and evidence review. 

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and process flows. 

• Perform fit-gap analysis and recommend practical solution options aligned to business priorities and system constraints. 

• Support solution design with architects, developers, testers, product owners, and business SMEs. 

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily delivery discussions, reviews, retrospectives, and release readiness activities. 

• Maintain traceability from requirements through design, build, test, deployment, and adoption. 

• Support change management, business readiness, stakeholder engagement, and user adoption activities. 

You Are

You’re a driven, high performer, looking to work in a dynamic environment where you can continue to learn and grow. You’ll be supported by extraordinary colleagues, who you’ll work collaboratively with to tackle some of our client’s biggest challenges. You have an interest or previous experience in change management, preferably in delivering sophisticated ICT Change Programmes.

You are both analytical and creative and can communicate complex ideas elegantly and in a way that resonates with our clients. You’re also a master co-ordinator and problem-solver who can steer the delivery of multi-stakeholder change initiatives to get things done.

Job Qualifications

Qualifications and experience

• Relevant undergraduate/master’s degree in a business, engineering, technical or economic field;
• 5–7+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Functional Analysis, Techno-Functional Consulting, Product Analysis, or comparable technology delivery roles. 
• Experience working with business, product, architecture, design, development, testing, and operations teams. 
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models across technology-enabled transformation programmes. 
• Sector experience may include Health or Public Service, or other complex service environments. 
• Client-facing consulting experience is desirable.
• Strong analytical skills, quickly absorbs information, excels in conceptual and creative problem solving
• A proven track record to collaborate, engage, and facilitate client meetings and workshops using design thinking methods
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Focus on continuous development and interest in the latest industry and technology trends;
• Ability to build and maintain strong client relationships, and maintain a value-driven approach;
• Experience working independently and in diverse teams including leading teams;
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment across a wide variety of projects and roles to deliver for our clients;

Does this appeal to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounted gym membership, emergency caring facilities, 20 days of holidays and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

About Accenture

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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