Senior Manager – Derivatives SME, Investment Management & Wealth, Asset Servicing Consulting

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Connect to your Industry

Deloitte’s Investment and Wealth consulting practice is currently engaged actively across the industry to support delivering a wide range of operational, technical, and regulatory solutions designed to help the players across the value chain create a competitive advantage and achieve their growth ambitions. Our practice works closely with leading Private Banks, Wealth Managers, Asset Managers and Asset Servicing firms to solve large complex problems. As part of the Investment Management & Wealth Consulting practice at Deloitte, we pride ourselves on our ability to harness our deep industry experience across front, middle and back-office to help our clients drive transformational change.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

The Investment Management value chain is currently undergoing significant change. Both Asset Managers and Asset Servicers are undergoing transformation journeys which as a result is changing where activities sit on the value chain and thus altering the operating models of both players. Our ambition is to become the leading Consulting practice in Asset Servicing, helping asset servicers to deliver large scale transformation change initiatives that enable digital technology adoption and operational efficiencies through major structural changes within their operations to unlock value and growth ambitions for their organisations. We are looking for talented individuals with expertise in asset servicing with a passion to learn, develop and grow within our proposition team.

As a Senior Manager in our team, you will work as part of a team of industry specialists in our practice and have the opportunity to:

• Build upon your existing industry knowledge to become an expert in your field.
• Focus on the delivery of client work that will successfully fulfil and exceed client expectations, and deliver engagement and programme objectives.
• Take a leading role on projects, managing and developing our more junior team members.
• Actively participate in, and contribute to, the development of the Investment Management practice team, including supporting the asset servicing proposition development and thought leadership.
• Develop trusted relationships with our clients.
• Learn from the best in the Business.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Proven experience specialising in Derivatives at either an Asset Manager or Asset Servicer or equivalent
• Big 4 Consulting or equivalent background
• Experience with end-to-end lifecycle of Derivatives Instrument for Front, Middle and Back Office
• Good understanding Listed and OTC derivatives, Clearers, FX prime brokers and custodians
• Good understanding of testing support for system migrations
• Proven ability to mobilise, manage and motivate teams, establishing the specific day-to-day plans, projects and objectives needed
• Experience in people management, able to lead people and organize work to deliver for our clients
• Experienced in leading client relationships and managing key stakeholders to resolve issues
• Able to articulate complex ideas to client stakeholders
• Have a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when working in, and managing, diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them and a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
• Understand risk, how to mitigate risk and protect the firm’s reputation

Connect to your business – Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

Connect with your colleagues

“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.”

• Dan, Consulting

“I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.”

• Rhiannon, Consulting

“Everyone always says “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.”

• Gillian, Consulting

Connect to your agile working options

Location: London or Edinburgh

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the London or Edinburgh team. You’ll have the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You’ll also have access to a number of local collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.

You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. 

The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way, by enabling flexibility for our people, and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.

Discover more about our locations.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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