Financial Services Manager

Accenture is a global professional services company providing a broad range of market-leading services to our clients.

We are looking for an experienced management consultant with experienced gained within either commercial or retail banking. You should have gained exposure to major transformation projects using leading technology.

As a team:

In todays world business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience mitigate risk and grow with sustainable value. Thats where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries industry experts practitioners from across every enterprise function business intelligence professionals change specialists data and AI authorities and many other specialised skills to co-create each clients unique path to reinvention.

You will be a trusted partner to business leaders working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformations and new kinds of value for your clients. Join our global network of people using the latest assets platforms and partnerships to help bring ideas to life.

Management Consultants design and implement business changes that drive industry-specific function and digital operating model transformation focusing on tasks relating to people and processes. We help banks challenge their conventions; capitalize on the full potential of technology their people and emerging opportunities; and become better at change.

In our team you will learn:

• The latest industry innovations across both Retail and Commercial Banking from organisation design through to GenAI
• Skills in the latest technologies that support successful banks such as cloud & advanced analytics
• How macroeconomic factors flow through to shaping the UK banking industry of the future
• How to deliver innovative solution to tight timelines working as part of a team in a project delivery capacity
• How to build and develop your own brand and career working in the Accenture Banking team
• How to manage some of the most complex and large-scale transformational projects at this inflection point in the industry.

In this role you will support one or several of the following areas:

• Solution Design and Planning: Ability to work in a client-facing role that translates client requirements and business objectives into engineering solutions that shape large scale programmes to deliver the technology strategy for an organisation.
• Project and Programme Management: Experience in creating implementing and operating within appropriate governance framework leading multi-disciplinary teams to implement cutting edge technology at an enterprise level.
• Develop business cases to identify measure and realise enterprise value with an emphasis on modern software engineering
• Contribute to business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification proposal development/presentation and commercial contract negotiation.
• Contribute to developing the Accenture Strategy and Consulting Banking practice and building Accentures banking offerings assets capabilities and thought leadership

Job Qualifications

We are looking for experience in the following:

• Experience working within Retail or Commercial Banking either in an advisory operational or leadership capacity; ideally within a bank or professional services firm
• Strong client-facing experience with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Excellent leadership communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to approach a problem in a structured manner and propose workable solutions.
• Ability to absorb and process information quickly.
• Consulting experience or ability to work in a consulting environment indispensable.

Academic Requirements:

• An excellent University Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience

Set yourself apart:

• A drive for personal development and curiosity to learn new concepts and skills.
• Ability to understand complex issues quickly absorb information and work creatively in a problem-solving environment.
• Comfort with the quantitative skills required to develop financial/operational models and supervise data analysis.
• An appreciation of how technology and digital can contribute to solving clients complex business problems; comfort operating at the intersection of business and technology.
• Experience working with relevant FinTech providers
• Natural leadership and the ability to quickly build effective teams establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication.
• Experience with staff development and ability to mentor junior practitioners.
• Proven presentation skills personal impact and charisma to lead meetings presentations and workshops.
• Confidence to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple logical and impactful manner with groups ranging from board rooms to business unit leads and to constructively challenge team members and leadership to ensure the right client outcomes and value is delivered.
• Some exposure and/or involvement in sales origination coupled with an entrepreneurial mind-set.
• Strong project management skills including experience working on a project using Agile delivery methodology

Our Commitment to You

Accenture is an incredible place to work - and keep learning. By joining us youll become part of a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Besides the work we do for our clients were really proud of our vibrant diverse workplace culture: we believe in openness and honesty fairness and equality common sense and realism. We want to get to know the real you and help you explore and grow - whatever it is youre phenomenal at. So you will always have lots of learning opportunities (formal and informal) to improve your role-specific skills and expertise.

Does this appeal to you If so we would love to hear from you!

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Whats in for you:

At Accenture Ireland in addition to a competitive base salary you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension private health insurance discounts through our employee discount scheme 25 days of holidays and 2 days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the worlds leading businesses governments and other organizations build their digital core optimize their operations accelerate revenue growth and improve citizen servicescreating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 732000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today and we are one of the worlds leaders in helping drive that change with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting Technology Operations Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients each other our shareholders partners and communities. Visit us at .

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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