Consulting Finance Strategy & Operations Manager

About the Team

PwCs Consulting practice provides business and technology advice to leadingorganisationsto help solve their most complex businesschallengesfrom strategy to execution.

The Financial Services Strategy & Operations team enablesorganisationsin the Financial Services industry (banks asset managers insurersetc) to design and execute strategies to grow become more productivemodernisetheirorganisation 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 aManager you will lead on-the-groundsdelivery of engagements whilst helping to build the broader FS S&O practice.Your responsibility will be but not limited to the following:

• You will lead client interactions and delivery of work alongside leaders and junior teammates.

• You will have responsibility for execution of client delivery through identifying client needs approaches to problems defining work plans and management of work.

• Working with your leaders you will help to activate the best of the PwC network to ensure that we areleveragingour capabilities whilst bringing your perspective.

• As aManager you will be a role model for our junior team members both in terms of development of core competencies and unlocking leadership potential.

• You will help to build and sharpen our offerings to clients.

• You will contribute to thought leadership encompassing bothgenerationof external publications and internal innovation of our client offerings.

• Using your business acumen and your experience in Financial Services you will have your clients futures in mind by pre-empting their problems and showing them how we can help.
  

About you

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

• Bachelors orMastersdegree in business economics financeengineeringora relatedfield. MBA or CFA is a plus.

• Prior consulting or direct experience with the Financial Services industry (Banking Asset & Wealth management Insurance Fintechs)

• Atleast6 - 8 years of relevant experience in Consulting or equivalent Strategy TransformationDigitisation Operations roles

• Demonstrated experience in delivery leadership people management and driving team outcomes

• Expert problem-solving and analytical skills (both quantitative and qualitative orientations)

• Ability to communicate complex concepts simply to a broad audience withtrack recordof senior executive level engagement

• Experience in the Financial Services industry (banking insurance or otherwise) and solid functional knowledge in business (sales marketing operations ITetc)

• Strong personal presence combined with compelling and professional presentation and communication skills

• Agile Scrum PMP Lean / Six-Sigma or equivalent certifications will beadvantageous