What Youâll Do
Siaâs Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.
Financial Institutions have drastically changed over the last decade, driven by increased regulatory constraints, diverse competition inside and beyond traditional banking organizations, and emerging technologies reshaping long-standing ecosystems. Siaâs Financial Services Business Unit provides a comprehensive suite of core capabilities designed to address the diverse and evolving needs of our clients, enabling them to navigate complex challenges, seize new opportunities, and achieve their strategic objectives in an increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment.
We are hiring talented consultants to 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. In Finance & Risk Management, experience in Capital and/or Liquidity Reporting is strongly preferred.
At all levels and varying scales, our consultants execute upon client delivery, business development, business expertise, team collaboration and leadership. We support your professional development and career growth through on-the-job training, internal trainings & learning pathways, in addition to opportunities to ideate, build, promote and deploy best-in-class and convincing IP/Solutions that bring a distinctive added value to our customers. Through our firmâs career pathways and collaborative global teams, you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop as a consulting professional.
Responsibilities
Consulting Skills
- Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables
- Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both them and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties
- Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coach teammates in preparing client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables
- Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
- Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data
- Manage internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve
- Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship
- Define the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments
- Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
- Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects
- Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information
Business Expertise Skills
- Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
- Maintains a deep understanding of business concepts, issues and challenges and key knowledge to master a business expertise
- Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain
- Contribute to the development of new solutions in own areas of expertise
- Takes a leading role within internal firm knowledge-share activities and organizations, ensuring complete knowledge and competency transfer to other consultants
- Collaborate with clientsâ leadership to improve processes and procedures in areas such as banking governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, treasury transformation, stress testing, and internal audit
- Advise and provide clients with strategic recommendations on Risk Management issues facing the financial services sector, focusing on the identification, measurement, and management of Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risks, etc.
- Help clients understand and quantify risk exposures, evaluate risk strategies, and build and maintain risk models. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations
- Help build tools that enable our clients to efficiently utilize capital and liquidity resources, consistent with regulatory expectations
- Focus on financial risk identification, measurement, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of exposures to interest rate, commodity, equity, credit, and foreign exchange movements
- Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients
Business Development Skills
- Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities
- Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders
- Lead business development and proposal efforts
- Drive sales efforts and lead internal corporate initiatives
- Lead major projects and manage relationships with flagship and key accounts
People Management Skills
- Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment
- Embody the firmâs values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into their management style
- Collaborate with engagement team to deliver high-quality work products
- Apply strategic and critical thinking to develop recommendations that address client challenges
- Manage team of resources to ensure deliverables are provided on time
- Provide guidance and mentoring to team