Management Consulting Senior Manager - Wealth Management

Role

Senior Manager - Wealth Management

Location

London, UK

Overview

As a senior manager within Accenture's Wealth Management practice, you will lead consulting engagements that address clients' most pressing business challenges across various disciplines.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients' most pressing business challenges, and create lasting value in disciplines such as:
  • Defining and implementing C-suite strategic agendas
  • Emerging products and services
  • Organisational redesign and operating model transformation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Core systems transformation
  • Cost efficiency
  • Enterprise agility
• Drive, identify and support business development and sales, partnering with leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices
• Solve complex, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and rigorous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little management oversight
• Drive a rigorous and structured approach to solving business problems
• Build trusted relationships with client and Accenture teams in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Support the development of Accenture's Wealth Management practice through people development, mentoring of more junior team members, and recruiting activities
• Take accountability for developing offerings within the UK Wealth Management practice. Play a key role in driving the growth agenda for clients - identifying emerging trends in customers and the market and driving sales as a result
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative and action-oriented information, insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant strategy topic and drive improved market presence in external forum

Qualifications

• Wealth Management consulting experience at a recognized consulting firm or through an in-house consulting/business development role at a large Wealth Management organization
• Deep subject matter expertise across the Private Wealth spectrum with a strong grasp of client segmentation, regulatory environments, product architecture, and distribution models
• Excellent consulting and problem-solving skills, familiarity with recognized consulting frameworks and techniques, experience of research, quantitative analysis, structured problem solving and executive communication techniques
• Knowledge and a personal viewpoint on key trends in Wealth Management, including regulation, investor needs and products and services
• Proven track record of building and sustaining lasting relationships with Executives / Senior Executives of leading organizations in the sector
• Operating model design and implementation experience
• Familiarity with at least some of the core technology platforms in use in the industry (e.g. Aladdin Wealth, InvestCloud, FNZ, IRESS, and Avaloq)
• Intellectual capacity and ability to think in new, innovative ways to understand complex issues and develop creative solutions
• An appreciation of how technology and digital can contribute to solving clients' complex business problems; comfort operating at the intersection of business and technology
• Ability to comfortably multi-task and engage on different projects and activities concurrently in challenging and often ambiguous circumstances
• Personal and professional attributes required to engage with senior C-suite stakeholders and encourage bold decision making
• Proven presentation skills, personal impact and charisma to lead large-scale, senior meetings, presentations and workshops
• First class written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner
• Commercial management of consulting engagements
• Willingness to flexibly accommodate client travel and location requirements
• Strong project and programme management skills, including strategic journey management and complex transformation delivery
• Proven track record of leading medium to large teams across clients, vendors, and delivering complex strategy engagements
• Experience in developing and building the practice internally - helping to define strategy, manage resource development, set and achieve targets
• Natural leadership and the ability to quickly build effective teams, establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication
• Proven experience in leading teams to deliver business change and capabilities while developing, mentoring and inspiring team members
• Strong and proven track record in sales origination, with an entrepreneurial mind-set

Benefits & Other Details

• Competitive basic salary
• 30 days' vacation per year
• Private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice
• Flexibility and mobility required: onsite work with clients and partners expected

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