Accenture Construct - Risk Analyst, COM
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
THE WORK
You've Never Been Satisfied with “Good Enough.”
You didn't get into this to manage one piece of a project. You got into it to change how the world gets built.
At Accenture Construct, that's the job. You'll help deliver the data centers, power grids, rail networks, factories and public infrastructure that keep communities moving - smarter, safer and more sustainably.
You'll work alongside people who think big and act bold: project managers, engineers, technologists and strategists who pair real-world delivery with AI. And you won't be handed a slice of it. We take on whole programs, from early strategy through construction and handover, and we stand behind how they land.
Because “good enough” builds the past. You're here to build what's next.
Visit us here to learn more about Accenture Construct | Capital Projects Business
- (Internal Title: Risk III)
- Day-to-day Risk Register ownership
- Proactively analyse KPI forecasts, leading indicators and predictors and risks of missing KPIs, and impact for applicable KRAs (Key Responsibility Areas)
- Overall Project Schedule Analysis – the project schedules for Yonge North and/or Scarborough East Subway extensions supplied by the Construction Contractor (Dev Co) and other relevant Stakeholders and Third Parties and evaluating risk factors.
- Project baseline risk reviews
- Supporting project planning strategy and execution
- Analyse planned targets (set-up by various Parties) whether they are realistic and can be realistically met without compromising the quality of the project.
- Proactively analyse risks vs. threats, and clearly eliminate noise, such as fears and internal quality concerns from risks
- Work closely with the Risk Manager to provide complete Risk picture for the Project and ensure that as a Delivery Partner, we’re providing value added risk services to the Client.
- Works closes with the whole project team to come up with meaningful, cost-efficient and effective mitigation strategies.
- Ensure sustainability is at the heart of Program process and decision making to ensure the right decisions are made now and for the future.
- Facilitate a project environment which is collaborative, inclusive, diverse and celebrates our differences.
- Create a high performing culture open to constructive challenge, seeking continual improvement and implementing lessons identified and original ideas from experience, skill level, analytical abilities.
- Training and development, mentoring of junior staff.
- Working Conditions
- Office-based (5 Days a week in Office)
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Experience:
- Minimum twelve (12) years of relevant experience in large infrastructure and / or rail transit projects, culminating in Project Engineer capacity or equivalent.
- Experience with developing risk registers, baselines and associated analyses (sensitivity, risk, float, critical path)
- Education:
- Degree in engineering, construction management, project management, applied sciences or equivalent, with a strong mathematical background.
- Licenses OR Certifications:
- Registered for and seeking recognized Risk Management certification such as Risk Management Professional (RMP)
- Knowledge of tools such as P6 – including resource loading, Primavera – earlier versions, MS-Project, SQL databases, MS-Office project suite, TILOS, Risk Radar, DOORs, Relatics.
- Skills and Competencies:
- Has sufficient experience to be able to provide meaningful input into developing risk mitigation strategies (has to have practical operations knowledge to make substantial impact)
- Experience setting and analysing KPIs and relevant KRAs.
- Experience with change management and implementation within a production environment.
- Dynamic engagement skills, ability to clearly articulate information, excellent communications ability
- Able to work in large, collaborative teams with multiple partners.
- Effective skills in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Risk Management software, Active Risk Manager (ARM), Oracle Primavera Risk Analyzer (OPRA), Acumen Risk, etc.
- Competent in Primavera P6, Acumen Fuse and MS Project
- Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines
- Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities
- Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal)
- Equipped to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong people skills and confidence to engage with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Readiness to work autonomously and interface with a wide cross-section of personnel
- Skilled to adapt to changing priorities from different levels of the organization
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, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill an existing position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
Toronto $99,000 to $148,000
What's in it for you
- The biggest builds going. Hyperscale data centers, grid and generation, transit and rail, chip fabs, mines, water. If it's complex and it matters, it's on our list.
- You own the outcome. Not a workstream. Not a deliverable. Whether the program lands.
- AI that shows up on site. Program control that predicts instead of records. You'll use it, and you'll help shape it.
- Scale without the distance. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC, on a team small enough that people know your name.
- Serious investment in you. Leadership development, technical upskilling and certification support.
- Work that outlasts you. People will use what you build for forty years without knowing your name. That's the point.
- Recognition that means something in this industry. Accenture Construct is ranked #6 globally in ENR's 2026 Top 50 Program Management Firms and #4 in Building Design + Construction's Top 80 Construction Management Firms for 2026.
About Accenture Construct
Accenture Construct is Accenture's global capital projects business.
The data centers behind AI. The grid behind the energy transition. The rail, water and airports everything else runs on.
We plan them, engineer them, deliver them and hand them over - and unlike most of this market, we're on the hook for whether they land on time. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. One team that owns the whole thing.
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Responsibilities
The Risk Analyst at Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects Inc. will keep the project's risk register up to date, review schedules and forecasts to spot risks to targets, and work with the project team on practical ways to reduce those risks. The role also includes mentoring junior staff and keeping sustainability in mind in decisions.
Requirements
Candidates need at least twelve years of infrastructure or rail transit experience, ideally as a project engineer, and hands-on skill building risk registers, baselines and schedule analyses. A relevant degree and a registered risk certification are required, along with strong scheduling and risk software skills.
Skills
- Primavera P6
- Primavera (earlier versions)
- MS Project
- Oracle Primavera Risk Analyzer
- Active Risk Manager
- Acumen Risk
- Acumen Fuse
- TILOS
- Risk Radar
- DOORS
- Relatics
- SQL databases
- Microsoft Office
- Risk register development
- Schedule risk analysis
- Sensitivity analysis
- Float analysis
- Critical path analysis
- Resource loading
- Baseline risk review
- KPI setting and analysis
- Risk mitigation strategy
- Change management
- Stakeholder communication
- Problem-solving
Benefits
- Leadership development
- Technical upskilling
- Certification support
Categories
- Consulting
- Engineering
- Construction
- Energy
- Transportation
Keywords
- Risk Analyst
- risk register
- schedule analysis
- Primavera P6
- Oracle Primavera Risk Analyzer
- Active Risk Manager
- Acumen Risk
- MS Project
- KPI analysis
- critical path
- infrastructure
- rail transit
- subway
- capital projects
- project controls
- risk management
- RMP certification
- program management
- construction
- Toronto
Seniority
Senior
Licences and certifications
- Risk Management Professional (RMP)
Tools
- Primavera P6
- MS Project
- Oracle Primavera Risk Analyzer
- Active Risk Manager
- Acumen Risk
- Acumen Fuse
- TILOS
- Risk Radar
- DOORS
- Relatics
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- engineering
- construction management
- project management
- applied sciences