Financial Services Strategy Consultant

Job Role: Financial Services Strategy Consultant

Location: London

Career Level: Consultant

Industry/Sector: Financial Services

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

"Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients' future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. In joining Accenture Strategy you will drive the CEO agenda on issues related to digital disruption, competitive agility, global operating models, and workforce of the future to identify new sources of value.

No-one brings all of that together at the scale and with the degree of integration as we can. Serving 95 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, we're different to every other strategy firm on the market - which makes us an undeniably exciting place in which to forge a career. Technology will continue to be the disruptor in the strategy arena. Which makes Accenture the strategy firm of tomorrow.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture thatthrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunitiesthat candrive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you!

In our team you will learn to:

• Use your judgment to solve client business problems, bringing structure and quantitative and qualitative analysis while acting and taking decisions with little management oversight

• Understand the strategic direction set by senior management and deliver lasting and distinctive outcomes and value

• Develop knowledge of prevailing trends, financials and operating drivers, identifying industry-specific operating and financial metrics to identify key value drivers

• Build and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite

• Contribute to business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification and proposal development/presentation

In this role you will:

Deliver successful strategy engagements addressing our clients' business challenges, providing lasting and distinctive outcomes and value in disciplines such as:

• Corporate and Business Strategy

• Digital and Innovation strategy

• Operating Model Strategy and Transformation

• Pricing & Profit Optimization

• Consumer-centric new Business Model development

• Go to market / launch strategy

• Strategic cost reduction

• Data strategies (e.g. how to leverage cloud-based technologies to drive step-changes in insight & value)

You will work with key clients to:

• Understand key strategic/operational issues and structure the problem to develop hypotheses around possible solutions

• Structure and create business/market assessments

• Develop and utilize industry knowledge to be able to make implementation-oriented recommendations

• Develop business cases to identify, measure and realise enterprise value

We are looking for experience in the following:

• Good understanding, interest and experience in Financial Services

• Minimum of 2 years experience at a top tier or boutique consulting firm or at a leading company with a combination of technical / operational and management / business development / strategy roles

• Familiarity with recognised Strategy frameworks and techniques

• Experience of building relationships at all levels in an organization

• A high-level understanding of value chain business models, operating models, industry trends and challenges and regulatory frameworks

• Experience working in diverse teams in complex strategy/consulting engagements, delivering high-quality output in short timeframes

• Strong analytical skills, understands complex issues, quickly absorbs information, excels in conceptual , analytical and creative problem solving.

• Digitally savvy; curious and passionate about technology, understands its impact on business and society.

• Driven; enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determined and optimistic.

Academic Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree

Set yourself apart:

• Driven; enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determined and optimistic.

• Experience in operating model design, strategy formulation, digital transformation, Beneficiary experience, impact assessment, monitoring, and evaluation.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio )

• Strong organizational and analytical skills

• Communication: Excellent presentation, and storytelling skills

• Leadership ability in a team environment, with an eagerness to drive progress with a results-driven attitude

• Experience of developing & mentoring junior practitioners

What's in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days of vacation per year, access to app based fitness classes , mental well-being tools and discounts on range of gyms, private medical insurance and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Moreover, you have access to our Employee Share Purchase Plan that enables you to buy Accenture shares at a 15 percent discount.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to deliver the first-class services we are known for.