Business Consultant/Manager/AVP/VP - Strategy - BFSI

Core Purpose of the role:

- Advising leaders with multi-year transformational agendas, providing structure, planning and input to transformation strategy

- Driving design and mobilisation effort on strategic programmes, adding speed, certainty and accuracy to the structure and the delivery of programme benefits.

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

- Identifying and defining problems related to change delivery for the wider business

- Delivering structure and discipline to an unstructured problem

- Using logic, creative and innovative thinking to devise solutions to business challenges

- Implementing solutions and anticipating their impact on the business operations and cultures

- Leading teams to challenge the operating practices and critical thinking around design of business solutions

Business Analysis and Design

- Gathering, analysing and tracking business requirements and translating these into business solutions and structures

- Understanding the Group Strategy, imperatives and vision and translating these into a business models

- Translating the business model into an operating model, considering customers, services, teams and governance

- Understanding the impact of change against the target operating model; testing and refining designs with stakeholders and change audiences

Innovation and Idea Management

- Challenging existing thinking, generating new and creative ideas

- Engendering an innovative, learning-oriented culture where all employees feel able to contribute new ideas and approaches as well as involving change audiences in generating new ideas

- Willing to experiment, take risks to consider new and untested approaches and learn from the results

- Looking outside of the organisation at technical and social trends and applying these to idea generation.

Experience

- At least 4-13 years of experience working on business consulting / Industry experience within large complex organisations. Overall financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise ideal.

- Experience of working closely with Strategy and Planning and the business / function board ideal.

- Demonstrated ability to build, maintain and navigate the organisation using formal / informal networking skills.

- Experience in managing others and directing work efforts to achieve objectives effectively and efficiently.

- Demonstrated experience with organisational change and business transformation; proficiency in Change

- Confidence to challenge - advising and a willingness to speak up when it counts.

- Strong intellect, but not academic in their approach

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and some experience in face-to-face presentation.

- Problem solving and analysis skills.