Manager/Senior Manager to Financial Services Consulting

Job Description & Summary

A career within Corporate and Business Strategy services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients solve their toughest problems and seize essential advantages by defining and evaluating strategies of all types. We analyse business and market trends to explore new approaches that help our clients make tough choices and surpass the competition. At both the business unit and corporate level, we help organisations with organic enterprise growth, pricing and profitability, shareholder value, and sustainable corporate strategies.

As a Manager/Senior Manager, you are responsible for the delivery of consulting projects and leading small but high impact work to drive impact for our clients:

• Leading the day-to-day execution of consulting projects and ensuring successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement; including:
• Owning the project planning and process management, and communicating progress to clients and PwC leadership
• Driving development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis)
• Managing the client relationship on a day-to-day basis
• Managing project scope and maintaining an acceptable pace of work
• Actively managing multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization in order to understand their needs and help to influence the client agenda
• Leading senior client presentations and meetings
• Providing apprenticeship and coaching to junior consultants to help develop their consulting skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow
• Supporting and contributing to other PwC projects, for example by sharing expertise or best practices
• Contributing to the development of intellectual property within the Practice Area(s), including improving methodologies, tools, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches
• Contributing to business development efforts, including preparation of proposal documents and attending pitch presentations

Requirements:

• Advanced degree or MBA is preferred
• 10+ years of work experience in strategy, business development, product development, project management, marketing and sales, etc. with functional knowledge in Banking, Digital Business models,or Digital Technology, Digital Marketing, eCommerce, Omni-channel, IT strategy consulting, etc.
• Previous consulting experience will be a plus
• Deep expertise in industries such as financial services and fintech
• Solid functional knowledge, including but not limited to strategy, business development, product development, project management, marketing and sales, etc.
• Undergraduate degree with outstanding record of academic achievement is required
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others
• Willingness to take personal risks – as seen through leadership roles – in work environment and extracurricular activities
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, in English and the local office language(s)

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