Financial Services Strategy & Operations Consulting – Senior Associate

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Corporate and Business Strategy

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

We believe that challenges are better solved together. That’s why you’ll join a diverse, global community of solvers – an unexpected mix of people that come together to build trust in society and solve important problems. With us, you are encouraged to lead with your heart and values, and where your unique skills are developed and put to work in unexpected and exciting ways, superpowered by technology.

At PwC South East Asia Consulting, we help businesses to work smarter and grow faster. We partner with our clients to build effective organisations, innovate and grow, reduce costs, manage risk and regulation and, leverage talent. Our aim is to support businesses in designing, managing and executing lasting beneficial change.

PwC’s South East Asian Consulting practice provides a comprehensive range of professional services and experience to deliver large scale, cross territory transformation projects, wherever our clients need us to be – from strategy through to execution.

About the Team

PwC’s Consulting practice provides business and technology advice to leading organisations to help solve their most complex business challenges from strategy to execution.

The Financial Services Strategy & Operations team enables organisations in the Financial Services industry (banks, asset managers, insurers, etc) to design and execute strategies to grow, become more productive, modernise their organisation, and position themselves for the future. We support this through a range of services focused on growth, productivity, ways of working, and digital transformation. 

About the Role

As a Senior Associate, you will play a crucial role within engagement teams by leading a component of a project. You will formulate how problems should be structured and play a key role in driving analysis and activities that underpin solutions for our clients. Your ability to lead outcomes, think independently, and ideate ways forward within a team setting will drive the impact you will make as a Senior Associate. 

On any given project, you will be able to quickly identify and acquire domain knowledge that enables you to problem solve, and have the ability to connect your outcomes to our client’s unique challenges. Working with your leaders, you will help manage aspects of an engagement while nurturing and leading junior team members. 

Our Senior Associates come from a range of backgrounds that will contribute to diversity of opinion within engagement teams, with the ability to flex to different analytical and operational tasks. 

About you

You are likely to be a Financial Services professional with the following key attributes:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in business, economics, finance, engineering or a related field. MBA or CFA is a plus.
• 3 – 5 years of relevant experience in Consulting or equivalent Strategy, Transformation, Digitisation, Operations roles is desirable
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite 
• High sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes and quality of work
• Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems using first principles thinking
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (both quantitative and qualitative orientations) 
• Demonstrated ability and propensity for leadership in team settings
• Familiar or proficient with core consulting skills concepts, such as structured problem solving and hypothesis-driven approaches
• Have a basic understanding of a Financial Services industry (e.g. Banking, Insurance, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills (For applicants to Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, candidates should be proficient in both the local and English language) 
• An ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment 
• Record of high performance
• Creativity and intellectual curiosity 
• Strong personal presence, combined with compelling and professional presentation and communication skills

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Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Yes

Government Clearance Required?

No

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