Associate, Business Analysis

About the Role

As a Business Analyst, you will support business analysis and requirement management activities by working closely with Analysts, Senior Analysts, and project leadership. You will contribute to translating business needs into clearly documented requirements and support the delivery of digitally enabled solutions across client engagements. This role focuses on learning Accenture delivery methodologies, tools, and ways of working while building foundational consulting and analysis skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the analysis of current-state (as-is) processes and assist in documenting future-state (to-be) processes under the direction of senior team members.
• Assist in planning, preparing, and documenting client workshops, interviews, and requirement gathering sessions.
• Work with client and internal stakeholders to understand stated requirements and contribute to documentation using process models, basic story maps, data analysis, and document reviews.
• Support day-to-day communication with delivery teams by helping clarify documented requirements and assumptions.
• Assist with iteration planning, backlog refinement, and sprint activities, including drafting user stories and acceptance criteria under guidance.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities and help maintain alignment between the project team, client, and project leadership.
• Contribute to the identification of solution options by documenting business needs, dependencies, and constraints to support decision-making.
• Create and maintain requirement artifacts (user stories, process flows, functional documentation) based on Accenture and client-defined standards.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders such as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to gather inputs required for analysis and documentation.
• Support alignment between requirements, solution design, and implementation artifacts, escalating gaps or inconsistencies when identified.
• Assist in maintaining requirement traceability, accuracy, and version control throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Requirement Gathering/Documentation
• Basic understanding of APIs
• Exposure to Agile and iterative delivery methodologies
• JIRA / Azure DevOps for backlog management (considered a plus)
• Basic SQL (considered a plus)
• Basic understanding of APIs / system integrations (considered a plus)
• Analytics tools (considered a plus)
• Ability to use AI tools efficiently

Qualifications

• Graduation
• Foundational knowledge of business analysis and requirement documentation practices using structured templates and tools.
• Ability to understand project scope, objectives, and inception documentation with guidance.
• Ability to proactively raise issues, risks, and clarifications to Analysts, Senior Analysts, or Project Managers.
• Basic application awareness of enterprise or commerce platforms (e.g., SAP Hybris, Salesforce or similar) is beneficial.
• Demonstrates structured thinking and clear communication.
• Shows learning agility.
• Proactively takes ownership of assigned responsibilities.
• Collaborates effectively within a team-based delivery environment.
• Ability to think in terms of systems, roles & system capabilities.
• Ability to aid clients in making data-driven decisions by using data analysis tools such as Excel & guide clients towards solutions to their business problems.
• Ability to do market research to understand client's business.