Senior Consultant - Financial Services
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. With expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.
Job Description
Our talented consultants enable our Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Unit to deliver a myriad of business transformation solutions to our clients. The FSI Business Unit has led and managed projects for top-tier, global clients ranging from strategy, target operating model design, regulatory governance and remediation to technology transformation, program & project management, and business analysis. We have experience providing these solutions to clients within their Sales & Trading, Risk Management, Finance, Treasury, and Operations & Technology functions.
Consulting
- Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team
- Demonstrate the capacity to plan assigned work and identify priorities/interesting parties of the project/assignment
- Present to team members and client contacts the main ideas, critical points and decisions required to be made, demonstrating a capacity to lead within teams
- Manage, organize and prioritize work activities & assignments to achieve deadlines while communicating effectively with clients, internal stakeholders and leadership
- Perform research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data
- Utilize intermediate methodological concepts to prepare client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio
- Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups
- Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health
- Participate in the work of one of the functions tracks of a project or in a PMO
- Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information
Business Expertise
- Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
- Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the issues related to the business unit/line, including a knowledge of recent topics/industry trends
- Participate in the sharing of knowledge and experiences within the firm, acting as an active member with internal knowledge-share oriented activities and organizations
- Share experiences related to business issues and demonstrate a capacity for knowledge transfer amongst peers and junior staff
- Design and implement business changes that drive transformation, functionality, and performance
Business Development
- Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders
- Participate in business development activities such as identifying and qualifying business opportunities, networking and relationship development, and preparing, coordinating, and developing pitches and proposals
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university
- 7 years relevant experience managing or creating project deliverables in a consulting environment, with broad experience in management consulting and/or in Financial Services Industry (retail banking, insurance, wealth management, capital markets, and etc.)
Primary skillset should include:
- Firm understanding of requirements for back-end development inclusive of financial modeling and development of complex calculations
- E.g., Monte Carlo Simulations, stress testing scenarios, mathematical modeling
- Strong BA skillset and experience operating in BA process flow
- Documenting requirements via user stories, flow charts, Excel, etc.
- Ability to manage teams, communicate with on-shore & off-shore partners, and ability to communicate business objectives
- Interfacing with the squad, participating and leading grooming sessions, helping the squad on a day-today basis
- Working through impediments and communicating impediments with the Product Owner
- Validating production code and testing
Secondary skillset should include:
- Experience with Financial Planning or has an awareness of retirement planning concepts
- E.g., types of retirement & tax-deferred accounts and their benefits
- Experience with stock options or has an awareness of different types of options
Additional Information
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
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