Accenture

Macro Foresight - Strategy Consultant

Accenture$59K — $188K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years in strategy, economics, or advisory roles
  • Proven experience delivering on client work and hitting deadlines
  • Ability to translate analysis into actionable business decisions
  • Experience using AI tools to enhance project delivery and automate workflows
  • Bachelor's degree is required

Responsibilities

  • Deliver client engagements from framing to execution
  • Collaborate within small engagement teams and mentor junior colleagues
  • Develop models, scenarios, dashboards, and data pipelines from raw data
  • Utilize AI to streamline research and scenario analysis
  • Help create productized services involving scenario planning and decision intelligence
  • Contribute to thought leadership and macro briefs
  • Travel as needed for client engagements

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Bonus opportunities
  • Paid holidays and paid time off
Full Job Description
About Macro Foresight

Macro Foresight is part of Accenture's CEO Advisory business. We work with CEOs and boards on enterprise-wide strategy and reinvention, helping them perform, protect, and grow. Within that, we are the team that anticipates disruption and volatility: we help clients read the external environment-economic, geopolitical, and financial-and build long-term strategies for competitiveness and resilience. Our footprint is global, with hubs in North America, Europe, and Asia.

In the past two years we've helped leaders respond to the highest US tariffs in a century, energy and supply shocks around the Strait of Hormuz, two-speed economies, and the reordering of global trade around industrial policy and AI.

What we do:

The work we deliver for clients' centers on a set of CEO- and board-level offerings:
  • Economic and geopolitical impact assessments. AI-accelerated analysis of how macro and geopolitical shifts affect a business, a market, or a major investment.
  • Scenario planning and wargaming. AI-enabled planning and table-top wargaming that test a strategy against a range of possible futures.
  • Decision intelligence. Enterprise-wide decision support that reaches beyond macro and geopolitics into portfolio strategy, competition, consumer trends, and business performance.
  • Strategic foresight and long-range planning. Structured futures assessments and long-range portfolio planning.
  • Enterprise resilience assessments. CEO- and board-level diagnostics that measure and strengthen an organization's resilience to shocks.
  • Foresight capability enablement. Helping clients build their own capability across people, process, and technology.


Who we are:

We hire for a few different profiles, and many people here bring more than one:
  • Economists and geopolitical experts who read the real economy, financial and commodity markets, and the interplay of policy, trade, and security, and apply it to a client's business context.
  • Strategists who translate complex analysis into recommendations a leadership team can act on.
  • Entrepreneurial people who grow teams and develop those who join after them.
  • AI engineers who code, build models, and put large language models and AI agents to work. We're actively hiring for this.
  • People who work well with ambiguity, set their own direction, and want to help build new offerings like scenario planning, wargaming, and foresight.


You'll advise companies and boards as AI and economic and geopolitical forces reshape the global business landscape. You will work across industries and functional domains and help shape the executive decisions that move markets.

What you'll be doing
  • Deliver client engagements. Own a workstream from the first framing of the question through to the recommendation and stay with it as the client executes.
  • Work as part of a team. Deliver on small engagement teams, learn from senior colleagues, and help develop those who join after you.
  • Build the analysis behind the advice. Create the models, scenarios, dashboards, and data pipelines that turn raw data into clear answers.
  • Put AI to work. Use large language models and AI agents to speed up monitoring, research, and scenario analysis on live projects.
  • Help develop our offerings and platform. Work with Accenture's AI engineering teams to turn scenario planning, wargaming, and decision intelligence into productized, AI-enabled services, and to develop our AI Foresight platform.
  • Sharpen our thinking between engagements. Alongside the client work, contribute to our monthly macro briefs and thought leadership, with the chance over time to publish under your own name.
  • Travel as needed


Here's what you need:
  • Minimum 2 years delivering strategy, economics, or advisory work in consulting, corporate development, investment, or research. Including:
    • A track record of delivering on client work: running a workstream in a team, hitting deadlines, and holding your own with a client.
    • The ability to turn analysis into a decision, drawing out what macro and company data mean for a client's business.
    • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to redesign and accelerate workflows, improve research and analysis, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance project delivery.
  • A bachelor's degree


What will make you stand out:
  • A graduate degree in economics, finance, public policy, international relations, or management (or an MBA), or an advanced quantitative, computational, data science, or engineering background.
  • Curiosity about macro and geopolitics, with a strong grasp of how the real economy connects to markets, sectors, and regions
  • Experience with our core offerings: scenario planning, economic impact assessments, or foresight.
  • AI and engineering depth, with priority given to developing AI-enabled analytical solutions: coding in Python and/or R, building models, dashboards, or data pipelines, and applying LLMs and AI agents to analytical workflows
  • Experience communicating with and advising C-suite or board audiences, or depth in a specific industry or region's political economy.
  • Familiarity with tools like Python, R, SQL, Power BI, or Tableau, or econometrics packages such as Stata or EViews.


Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/15/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $70,350 to $188,100
Cleveland $59,100 to $188,100
Colorado $59,100 to $188,100
District of Columbia $59,100 to $188,100
Illinois $59,100 to $188,100
Maine $59,100 to $188,100
Maryland $59,100 to $188,100
Massachusetts $59,100 to $188,100
Minnesota $59,100 to $188,100
New York $66,300 to $188,100
New Jersey $59,100 to $188,100
Virginia $59,100 to $188,100
Washington $80,200 to $188,100

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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