Vattenfall Collaborates with Accenture to Deliver Human Resources Transformation Project
June 08 2017 - 2:30AM
Business Wire
Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest electricity and heat
retailers and producers, has awarded Accenture (NYSE:ACN) a
five-year agreement to digitally transform its human resources (HR)
function, including deployment of a new platform and delivery of
end-to-end HR services.
Accenture will deliver a full HR as-a-Service offering,
including a digital transformation based on SAP® SuccessFactors®
solutions, and supported by leading HR applications including
ServiceNow, SAP Fieldglass® and Concur® solutions, which will be
cloud-based. Innovative technologies Accenture will deploy in the
project will include robotics process automation (RPA), artificial
intelligence and analytics as part of the business process
services.
Stefan Dohler, CFO at Vattenfall, emphasizes that the decision
to form strategic partnerships is in line with Vattenfall’s overall
strategic direction.
“We have reached an important milestone,” Mr. Dohler said.
“Reducing costs is only one objective, getting ‘state-of-the art
systems’ suited to a company of Vattenfall’s size and international
set-up is just as important. We will also benefit from the further
technological developments in that area. These strategic
partnerships will improve our competitiveness long-term, as well as
allowing Vattenfall to focus on its core business.”
Accenture Operations and Accenture Technology will design, build
and implement the full spectrum of HR services for all Vattenfall
employees. These include recruitment, contingent worker management,
performance management, reward, benefits, learning and training
delivery administration, workforce administration, pension
administration in Germany and payroll services working with
third-party vendors.
Joost van de Meent, Senior Managing Director, Resources, for
Accenture, added, “We are delighted that Vattenfall has selected
Accenture to collaborate on its HR transformation. Utilities are
experiencing many pressures, including the need to be more cost
effective while improving the employee experience. This project
delivers in both areas more effective HR systems and processes
including data analytics capabilities to support more strategic HR
decisions.”
Accenture Consulting will work with Vattenfall to provide a
global process design to harmonize the HR services and end-user
experience in addition to providing change-management support.
“Digital transformation is a key part of our business strategy,
and our digital HR transformation project will take us much further
on this journey,” said Kerstin Ahlfont, Senior Vice President,
Human Resources, Vattenfall. “Accenture’s deep industry and
technology knowledge and experience will help ensure that our new
HR IT systems and processes continuously improve the work
environment long term.”
Henrik Tegnér, Managing Director and Vattenfall client account
lead at Accenture, added, “We look forward to delivering efficient
and high quality HR services to Vattenfall, including improved self
service for both managers and employees, which allows Vattenfall to
further focus on their strategic priorities”.
Accenture will deliver the services from its delivery centers
in, Prague and Mumbai, and Vattenfall’s locations in Stockholm,
Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Forsmark, Ringhals and Lulea.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 401,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
About Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish, state owned energy company with around
20,000 employees with operations in Sweden, Germany, the
Netherlands, Denmark, UK and Finland. Vattenfall focuses on growth
in business areas that drive the transition to a renewable energy
system and has the objective to become leading in sustainable
energy production and thereby secure a reliable and cost effective
energy supply.
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