Agile Strategy and Transformation Consultant – Financial Services

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

• Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
• Location - This role will be aligned to our London office based in Victoria.
• Application deadline: ASAP

Are you passionate about helping businesses to deliver better outcomes faster Do you specialise in driving commercial performance and operational excellence If you match this description and are passionate about what you do we would love to hear from you.   

We are a leading consultancy and thought leader in organisational agility. We are looking for experts with the experience to lead clients through an exciting journey to fundamentally transform their business to accelerate the creation of value. You will bring your expertise in strategy business design and operating models agile ways of working product management lean and change management.  

You will be part of an inspiring globalteam thatleads the way in driving organisational agility across some of the most exciting brands in financial services across Banking Payments Wealth and Asset Management Pensions and Insurance.  Our clients span the UK US Nordics and increasingly in Australia where we are looking to build our team out. So with an increasing number of overseas assignments there is plenty of opportunity to travel. 

Our rich track record in organisational agility gives us unrivalled experience collateral and insight.  We have transformed some of the largest global banks accelerated drug development in healthcare and life sciences helped transform the world to green energy catapulted a fintech into the S&P500 and reimagined visas and immigration. Thats just a few of our incrediblyinspiring assignments that we have delivered! 

We are looking for exceptional strategy and transformation experts to join our growing team. Candidates will have the opportunity to: 

• Bring their passion purpose insight and impact to design and embed solutions that drive tangible outcomes within our clients 
• Fundamentally re-wire a clients business to build a vibrant and dynamic place to work accelerate the pace of change and delivery of value 
• Focus on changing the skills and behaviours of organisations and their people at scale enabling clients to ensure they achieve their goals working in blended teams (doing it with clients not to clients) 
• Ensure we connect our clients organisational strategy to the practical work of portfolios and teams to deliver the right change at pace 
• Be part of an exceptionally vibrantagile community and work with Operational Excellence Growth Strategy Digital People and Change practitioners to grow your broader skillset. 

Qualifications :

You will have some if not all of the following: 

• Market sector knowledge: You will know the financial services market sector well and create solutions that are specific to a clients market context (e.g. banking insurance asset management and payments) 
• Transformation Management: You will be experienced in shaping and leading (or being part of a transformation team) all facets of an agile transformation at scale such as driving quantitative and qualitative benefits tracking 
• Business Design and Operating Model: Applying your experience of business design and agile operating models to build lived structures that work end to end across a business to build compelling solutions  
• Shared Services and Operations: An understanding of how to drive at scale the interlock between engineering shared services and operations to more effectively and efficiently link strategy to production   
• Executive enablement: Applying your exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to bring senior leaders on a transformation journey and its constituent parts  
• Education: You will have experience in shaping creating and implementing agile content to educate upskill and enable organisational agility to come to life and continuously evolve 
• Lean Portfolio Management (LPM): Applied expertise in LPM practices to help clients overcome challenges as they move from projects to products (e.g. budgeting and funding) defining OKR frameworks implementing portfolio Kanbans creating work and tooling taxonomies and demand intake and prioritisation techniques  
• Product Management: Experience in Product Lifecycle Management showing clients how to move through each stage of a product lifecycle from market analysis design-thinking workshops work breakdown techniques 
• Stakeholder Management: Experience in helping critical enabling functions (e.g. HR Finance Risk) understand organisational agility and their role in helping its sustainable adoption 
• Agile ways of working: Experience in helping executives and senior leaders understand embrace and adopt agile ways of working to inspire their teams leading from the front to make organisational agility persistent pervasive and able to continuously evolve   

In order to be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate typical attributes gained either through your consulting experience or gained through applied industry roles. You will display applied analytic thinking client centricity collaboration communication and stakeholder management.  

You may also have: 

• Training qualifications such as SAFe LeSS or Certified Kanban Management Professional. 
• Experience of introducing new regulatory focuses innovatively and improving quality for example the consumer duty 
• Experience of leading and running consulting assignment teams 
• Experience in Change Framework design and evolution as an organisation introduces or moves more fully to agile ways of working  

We know the skill-gap and somewhat need to tick every box can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates so please dont hesitate to apply wed love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Additional Information :

Life At PA encompasses our peoples experience at PA. Its about how we enrich peoples working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams and support our communities to deliver insight and impact solving the worlds most complex challenges. Were focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical emotional social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work give as you earn) 

Were committed to advancing equality. We recruit retain reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age background disability genetic information parental or family status religion or belief race ethnicity nationality sex sexual orientation gender identity (or expression) political belief veteran status or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

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