Manufacturing Consulting Analyst to Accenture Finland

Industry X is Accenture’s engine for transforming how the world designs, engineers, builds, and operates products and critical infrastructure. Our teams help global industrial leaders modernize and digitize their operations using advanced technologies such as digital twin, MES/PLM platforms, automation, AI, and sustainable manufacturing practices. 

We enable the build of resilient, intelligent, and future ready production ecosystems across sectors such as industrial equipment, discrete manufacturing, heavy industry, process industries, and advanced manufacturing. 

The practice

You will join our Netherlands and Nordics (NLN) Industry X team working in our Helsinki or Tampere office, collaborating closely with delivery teams, account leads, and ecosystem partners to shape and deliver high‑impact transformation programs for capital‑intensive industries.

Our work spans large-scale modernization programs across smart factories, intelligent asset management, capital project advisory, construction digitalization, and the development and delivery of data center and critical infrastructure engineering solutions.

The work

As a Manufacturing Consulting Analyst, you will support client engagements focused on modernizing shop‑floor systems and manufacturing IT landscapes. You will work with experienced consultants and architects on projects involving MES/MOM, production data, manufacturing process harmonization, and smart factory transformations.

This role is well suited for graduates or early‑career professionals who are interested in manufacturing systems, factory operations, and digital transformation rather than pure IT development.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in assessment and solution definition work related to different areas in manufacturing, quality and supply chain

• Support manufacturing transformation projects across industrial clients

• Analyze current state of production people, processes, technologies, data along with the related data flows

• Analyze production data related to throughput, quality, OEE, traceability, and compliance

• Help define the future state digital manufacturing architectures

• Support improvement projects in a multi-factory setting

• Contribute to projects involving:

  • MES / MOM platforms

  • Digital shop floor solutions

  • Manufacturing data models and reporting

  • Integration between OT systems and enterprise IT

• Prepare structured analyses, requirements, and client ready presentations

• Work in close collaboration with, and learn from, manufacturing consultants, MES architects, and other engineering teams

Basic Qualifications

• Recently completed or soon-to-be completed Master’s degree in either industrial engineering, mechanical engineering or another relevant engineering discipline

• Strong analytical problem‑solving skills

• Strong interest in manufacturing operations management and the related IT/OT solutions

• Ability to understand and document manufacturing processes and capture system requirements, production people challenges

• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary project environments.

• Fluency in Finnish and English

Bonus Points If You Have

• Earlier experience of actual factory work within discrete manufacturing or process industries

• Experience in using some key manufacturing IT solutions, such as Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) or factory simulation

• Experience in operational technology (OT) stack

Rather than traditional consulting profiles, our manufacturing consulting practice seeks pragmatic thinkers and doers with the ability to speak the language of production.

Why should you choose Accenture?

At Accenture you are greeted by a friendly, diverse, and dynamic team that welcomes your unique background, ideas, and skills. We are committed to support your continuous learning from basic skills to the latest industry-specific knowledge in order to help develop and maintain your professional skillset and know-how.

We acknowledge the importance of employee well-being and offer extensive employee benefits on top of the monthly base salary. Our employees are, for example, covered by comprehensive healthcare and insurance as well as granted a sports and culture allowance. Additionally, we support well-being by offering opportunities to make a difference in the community through Accenture’s Corporate Citizenship initiatives, volunteering, Inclusion and Diversity networks and many more. Our various fun clubs actively organize sports and culture events.

How to apply

To apply, please submit the following through our application system:

• CV

• Cover letter

• Grade transcripts

Please submit all requested documents even if the system only asks for a CV.

Eligibility

Please note that if you are not a Finnish citizen, working at Accenture Finland requires a valid work permit and a permanent address in Finland.

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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.

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