Job Description

Job Description

Organization: Corporate Functions/CIO
Location: Chicago, IL

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions underpinned by the worlds largest delivery network Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 200 cities with operations across 51 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

People in the Corporate Function career track contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.

Job Description

The CIO Organization is a world-class, global and rapidly evolving IT organization with the courage, ability and capabilities to drive Accentures digital agenda. We are setting the industry benchmark for visioning and creating the global social enterprise. We will accelerate the deployment of leading-edge technologies which enable our people and which our clients seek to replicate. Members of the Accenture CIO organization:

* Contribute to a global network of talented IT consultants across the business, enabling high-performance by creating and delivering Accentures business applications and technology infrastructure.
* Collaborate and innovate to connect our people with the technology they need to build market relevant skills and be impactful to the business.
* Run IT as a business with strict standards of availability and performance, and with world beating cost effectiveness as a result being brand critical to Accenture.
* Continually experience new and engaging opportunities, challenging work, flexibility, career sponsorship and mentoring, and recognition for our contributions throughout the journey. Living the adventure.

Job Summary:
A CIO Specialist works in key roles within a CIO initiative or the operations support effort for CIOs existing application portfolio, infrastructure and architecture. CIO Specialists are expected to utilize Project and Operations tools and processes depending on initiative or operations role, contribute to key components of the overall work effort, provide some supervisory guidance, help drive work planning activities, help measure progress, resolve core issues or follow-ups, influence content and ensure quality.

CIO Specialists are typically sourced from one the following capability areas (talent segments):
-Software Engineering -Business & Technology Integration
-Technology Architecture -Infrastructure
-Program Project & Service Management
-Management Consulting - Human Performance

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelors Degree
* Minimum of 3 years of experience in security compliance or similar relevant experience
* Minimum of 1 years of experience with Microsoft Office products (Strong Excel skills desired)

Preferred Qualifications:

* Security certifications: Security +, CRISC or equivalent
* Experience with data visualization and reporting tools
* Experience analyzing security vulnerability data
* Previous experience defining requirements for complex projects

Professional Skills:

* Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
* Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

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