Management Consultant (Banking/Financial Service)

About the Job

As a Consultant / Senior Consultant, you will be playing a key role in the delivery of projects and working on client site to deliver large-scale change initiatives for leading clients across Financial Services and/or Insurance sectors. You will be responsible for analysis, design, and consulting support, as well as developing an understanding of our client’s strategic direction and issues. Fitting that description, you will also need to be supremely motivated person and able to work in a team where clients become colleagues too.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate procedures, controls, user requirements, and functional specifications to identify gaps between the current state and future state, and propose enhancements to current business processes, reports, and applications to optimize system effectiveness.
• Be the liaison between business and technical users and work to ensure project timelines and milestones are met.
• Responsible for delivering and managing projects, individuals workstreams, and communicating project statuses to senior management.
• Working on client site to deliver change initiatives for leading clients across financial services, including investment banking, retail banking, technology, wealth, and insurance.

Requirements

Key for this role is there is requirement to have a background in Financial Services within one of our core capability areas:

• Digital Transformation
• Data Strategy, Data Management & Data Analytics
• Business & Finance Transformation
• IT Transformation

We are also keen to bring on those from a consulting background in other industries that can then apply these perspectives and techniques to our core sectors and capability.

We are looking for exceptional talent with the following:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience working as a management consultant with a top management consulting firm or in other generalist problem solving environments across the Financial Services (mandatory).
• Strong emerging end-to-end generalist problem solving skills, e.g., defining, and deconstructing problems.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills; the ability to interact with colleagues at all levels and communicate effectively with stakeholders and clients, especially senior management.
• Produce high-quality verbal and written consulting deliverables (proposals, customer presentations, consulting reports) to effectively communicate project findings.
• Ability to think strategically, execute tactically, and enable cross-business and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile ways of working would be an advantage.
• Strong logical and critical thinking skills.