Job Description

You will also have the opportunity to work closely with the Delivering Deal Value (DDV) team, assisting both Corporate and Private Equity clients in a wide range of business critical operational and transformational challenges driven by activity.

You will spend the vast majority of your time delivering client projects. In these which you will lead 1-2 work streams, either independently or managing junior colleagues and clients. You will engage in hypothesis-led problem-solving, development of project approaches, execution of qualitative and quantitative analysis, client engagement and collaboration with the team.

Outside of engagements, you will build networks and engage with our sector consulting team including our market-leading Experience Centre and Customer capability groups; generate thought leadership, new propositions and initiatives based on your personal interests and insights; and drive your own personal development and that of your colleagues to deliver ever more value to clients. Using a combination of formal training programs, on-the-job feedback and guidance from your allocated career coach, we support our Managers to develop exceptional leadership analytical thinking, specialist technical and sector knowledge and relationship skills.

Key responsibilities

• Shaping, planning and executing complex strategic work streams as part of client projects, with support from Senior Managers, Directors or Partners.
• Developing the hypotheses and insights to unlock challenging client problems.
• Undertaking analysis, translating the analysis into useful findings and quality assuring the results in conjunction with project leadership.
• Developing clear, persuasive and concise documents for Executive audiences.
• Building productive and lasting client relationships at all levels.
• Leading data gathering required to solve complex problems in a short timeframe.
• Managing the development of junior team members on projects and identifying opportunities for them to grow and build their skills.
• Building relationships within the company and proactively contributing to internal, firm-building activities.
• Dealing effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience working with clients in the financial services sector, ideally with large banks, insurers or asset managers, on one or more of the following:
  • Corporate or business unit strategy
  • Growth strategy
  • Cost reduction strategy

• Ability to lead self and others, in particular, experience in managing teams and coaching others to high performance
• Experience in contributing to functionally, geographically and culturally diverse teams
• Ability to apply top-down strategic thinking to complex, ambiguous and unfamiliar problems
• Demonstrated ability to work with quantitative data and structuring quantitative analysis
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, including demonstrated experience in communicating with senior Executives in oral and written form
• Ability to quickly and confidently develop relationships, including in challenging situations