What to Know and How to Apply for Accenture: A Global Consulting Firm Leading Industries in Japan

Author: Linh T. Bui | Publish date: 25th January 2020

About Accenture - "Accent on the future"

Accenture Co Ltd, founded in 1952 in the US and later 1995 in Japan, is a multinational professional services company. Accenture offers a wide range of services and solutions in 5 areas: Strategy, Consulting, Digital, Technology, and Operations to help solving the most challenging problems in different industries and organizations. 

Mission of Accenture

Helping our clients create their future. 

Accenture Mission Statement

Likewise, their vision is: To become one of the world's leading companies, bringing innovations to improve the way the world works and lives. Since entering Japanese market, by combining human ingenuity with intelligent technology, Accenture Japan has created a lot of innovation that helps grow not only their clients’ businesses but also revolutionize industries. Being one of the leading companies in consulting industry, Accenture has around 27 subsidiaries, mainly providing services in business management and IT consulting. You can get familiarized and find information about some of their subsidiaries below:

Avanade: a global company providing IT consulting mainly on the Microsoft platform with artificial intelligence, business analytics, cloud, application services, etc

IMJ Corporation: a Japanese IT service management company 

Accenture in numbers

CHECK FACTS : As a global company in Japan, Accenture has approximately 13,000 employees only in Japan and more than 500,000 employees worldwide. Accenture's 2019 fiscal year revenue was $43.2 billions, 8.5% increase of last year. Despite the fact that Accenture has been acknowledged as one of the most prestige companies worldwide, it is still growing in a fast pace. Accenture Japan plays a major role in Accenture's expansion worldwide.

(Source: Accenture website)

Accenture Japan CEO Message

Masashi Egawa, the current CEO of Accenture Japan, has led the acquisition of a majority stake in Japan's leading digital marketing company. He believes that in order to provide the best services to customers, the company needs to create a work environment in which employees can perform their maximum strengths. Therefore, Accenture Japan has established regulations such as reducing overtime hours while still improving business results, increasing the ratio of female employees as part of expanding employee diversity. The initiative has gained reputation for the company, and has greatly contributed to the improvement of the status of Japanese subsidiaries.

Headquartered in Minaku, Tokyo, the company itself is now comprised of approximately 15,000 employees. It also expands the Kansai branch in Osaka, builds an innovation center in Fukushima, relocates its Delivery Center in Hokkaido to a bigger space and opens a facility in Fukuoka to support clients using intelligent digital businesses. 

How to work in Accenture Japan (Full-time Positions)

There are a lot of opportunities in Accenture, ranging from fresh graduates, experienced workers to people with disabilities. However, this article will be focused on opening positions for new graduates. Although their 2020 recruitments has been closed, they are opening the recruitment for 2021 graduates. Last year, Accenture recruited around 301 people who are graduated from either universities or graduate schools. According to their websites and other job-hunting sites, there are 2 types of positions they are recruiting, which are listed below:

Business technology consultant: you will have golden chances to get informed and solve complex business case challenges from clients, making use of recent advanced technology to execute projects.

Solution engineer: this position requires high expertise in IT, more specifically in system development, maintenance and operation because you will take responsibility for developing and operating software applications for businesses. This position is also opened for people with disabilities.

Apply for all positions here: https://job.axol.jp/gs/i/accenture_21/entry_1815560317/agreement 

How to work in Accenture Japan (Internship Opportunities)

Because of the complexity in job tasks, Accenture does not provide various internship opportunities for college students. However, they usually offer few-day internships so that students can get to know about not only about the company but also about consulting industry. Currently, they are looking for potential candidates for their 1-day workshop hosted by Accenture female employees during February and March this year. Attending this workshop, you will get a clearer picture of the working environment in Accenture and a career path as a consultant/engineer . There is no maximum number of how many people the company will recruit, therefore you definitely should grab this once-in-the-lifetime chance. The application deadline is March 31^st 2020, so you should be hurry!Find information about the workshop here: https://job.rikunabi.com/2021/company/r357800016/internship/