A leading consultancy organisation is looking to hire a Manager and Senior Manager within their Finance Business Consulting team. You will specialise in finance services (Retail Banking, Capital Markets or Insurance) and will work closely with Finance clients, and lead engagement teams, to provide valuable insight and advice to support clients to make strategic and operational decisions about their business. You will be a leader in enabling the continued success and growth of the practice, alongside some of the most highly regarded colleagues within the Financial Services industry.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
•Managing delivery of large-scale projects by managing the project team, assessing engagement risks, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team
•Effectively leading the design, development and implementation of strategic and operational initiatives
•Driving innovation by creating an environment that encourages innovation and being a leader in this area by implementing new and improved ways of working, delivery models and / or technological advancement
•Training, coaching, and supervising junior staff as well as monitoring staff availability, chargeability and supporting the development of less utilised staff
•Being responsible for the financial management of client engagements
•Leading business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new / existing clients, leading proposals and bid teams and managing the development and delivery of high-quality proposals
•Leading the growth of the practice via the sharing of knowledge and experience as well as demonstrating great depth of specialism by contributing to the development of solutions, engagement tools and enablers
•Contributing to the development of your own and the team's technical skills by establishing a culture of highest performing teams, inclusive behaviors, and emotional intelligence
•Keeping up to date with industry news and developments
You will need to be able to display you have the following qualifications and experience
•Experience of working in a consulting role in financial services (Banking, Capital Markets or Insurance), or a transformation role in industry, focusing on the Finance function
•Experience in leading delivery of large-scale Finance change programmes in Financial Services and demonstrable experience of leading change gained from:
•Hands-on consulting experience within Financial Services
•Experience of designing and implementing Finance Operating Models and Finance Transformation, including location and service model strategy
•Control and Valuation – including demonstrable product knowledge (Capital Markets Candidates)
Accounting and regulatory change e.g. IFRS9, IFRS17, IBOR, ViR – supporting clients to understand and address complex change, and leading delivery of programmes / projects
Financial Control – including internal and external statutory reporting
Financial modelling, budgeting, business planning, forecasting and analysis
Finance, Risk and Treasury integration, operating model design and implementation
Front to back process, control and governance
Balance sheet management and financial resource optimisation
Cost reporting and management
Finance Cost Reduction and Process Improvement
Finance systems architecture and strategy delivery
General Ledger, consolidation and EPM projects
Use of related technology including SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, BPM tools, EPM systems, Treasury systems ERP systems, Robotic Technology, AI and Digital technologies, Cloud and Google based solutions, Hadoop and Big Data, Tableau, Biazagi and other visualisation tools.
Regulatory, statutory and management reporting projects including COREP, FINREP
Optimisation of financial resources – capital, liquidity, RWA, LBS etc.
A first level university degree, 2:1 (or equivalent) or above is desirable but not compulsory
An accounting qualification (ACA, ACMA, ACCA) applied in a financial institution would be beneficial, but not essential
