Utilities Strategy Consultant

At Accenture, we help utilities organizations reinvent how they operate, invest, serve customers, and deliver sustainable value in a rapidly changing energy landscape. As the utilities sector evolves through grid modernization, digital transformation, decarbonization, renewables growth, and changing customer expectations, our clients need practical strategies that turn complexity into measurable outcomes.

We are looking for a Utilities Strategy Consultant to join our growing consulting practice, supporting utilities clients through business transformation, energy transition, and strategic change.

This role is ideal for a strategy consultant with strong analytical discipline, structured problem-solving skills, and an interest in developing deep utilities sector expertise.

About the Role

As a Utilities Strategy Consultant, you will support and lead workstreams across utilities strategy engagements. You will help clients define investment priorities, develop transformation business cases, design operating models, build capability roadmaps, and translate complex industry challenges into practical recommendations.

You will work across topics such as grid modernization, intelligent asset management, energy retail, smart metering, enterprise asset management, digital utility platforms, renewables, storage, and broader energy transition initiatives.

The successful candidate will bring a strong foundation in core strategy consulting skills, including business case development, quantitative analysis, market and competitor research, financial modeling, executive-ready communication, and the ability to structure ambiguous client questions into clear workplans and recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop business cases, investment narratives, value cases, and benefits-realization models for utilities transformation initiatives.
• Conduct structured analysis, market research, competitor benchmarking, and financial modeling to support client recommendations.
• Apply hypothesis-led problem solving to ambiguous client challenges, breaking complex topics into clear workplans, analyses, and decision points.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, reports, and storylines for senior client stakeholders.
• Support utilities strategy engagements across areas such as:
• Grid modernization
• Network of the Future
• Asset management transformation
• Retail and customer transformation
• Smart metering and AMI
• Digital utility platforms
• Renewables, storage, and energy transition
• Operating model and capability design
• Translate industry trends, technology developments, and regulatory considerations into practical client implications.
• Facilitate client workshops, capture requirements, synthesize stakeholder input, and convert findings into actionable recommendations.
• Contribute to proposals, credentials, points of view, and internal practice-building initiatives.

Core Skills and Experience

We are looking for candidates who bring strong consulting fundamentals and the ability to operate effectively in complex client environments.

You should have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Business case development, including investment logic, cost-benefit analysis, value driver definition, and benefits tracking.
• Quantitative analysis and financial modeling, with strong Excel capability.
• Structured problem solving, including issue trees, hypothesis development, workplanning, synthesis, and recommendation formulation.
• Market, competitor, and sector research, with the ability to translate findings into clear strategic insights.
• Executive-ready written and visual communication, including PowerPoint storylining and concise report writing.
• Stakeholder management, workshop support, and collaboration with consulting teams and client counterparts.
• Strong attention to detail, ownership, and ability to manage multiple workstreams or deliverables concurrently.
• Typically 3–6 years of relevant experience in consulting, strategy, corporate development, energy, infrastructure, transformation, or a related field.

Utilities Experience That Will Differentiate You

Relevant utilities sector experience will be an advantage, especially in one or more of the following areas:

Grid Modernization and Network of the Future

Experience or exposure to transmission and distribution strategy, DERMS, smart grid, grid flexibility, AMI, network planning, grid investment prioritization, or interconnection policy.

Intelligent Asset Management

Experience with Asset Performance Management, Digital Twin use cases, Enterprise Asset Management platforms such as IBM Maximo or SAP EAM, predictive maintenance, reliability-centered maintenance, asset lifecycle strategy, or total-cost-of-ownership modeling.

Energy Retail and Customer Transformation

Experience with CIS, billing, meter-to-cash, SAP IS-U, Oracle Utilities, customer operations, digital channels, or retail operating model transformation.

Smart Metering, AMI, and Utility Data

Exposure to smart meter rollout, meter data management, operational analytics, billing data quality, consumption analytics, or utility data governance.

Renewables, Storage, and Energy Transition

Experience with solar, battery energy storage systems, distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, hydrogen, decarbonization strategy, net zero roadmaps, or energy transition investment planning.

Operating Model and Capability Transformation

Experience designing target operating models, capability maps, process redesign, governance models, workforce implications, or transformation roadmaps for asset-intensive or regulated organizations.

Regulated Utilities Environment

Understanding of regulatory frameworks, public sector interfaces, tariff considerations, market rules, investment justification, or compliance-driven transformation.