Deloitte Consulting, Manager, Banking Operations, Strategy & Operations, London
Role description
The Banking and Insurance Operations practice at Deloitte covers all areas of Banking, Insurance and Asset Management. This ranges from retail, commercial, private and transaction banking across channel, middle or back office operations to all aspects of general insurance and life and pensions, from sales and marketing to core underwriting, and all facets of fund management and planning. These areas are complemented by our range of specialisms, including Robotics, Digital, Structural Reform and Payments. Our aim is to strengthen our position as the market leading Operational consultancy in FSI, helping and working with our clients to address their most complex challenges.
The impact of increased regulation, and the focus on customer experience and digital banking alongside the more traditional objectives of efficiency, automation and complex transformation, has forced large scale change to the industry’s operating models and service definitions. Banking and Insurance Operations, with its deep industry expertise, carries out target operating model definition and implementation, M&A integration, cost reduction, risk & regulatory driven change programmes and supports core technology transformation. Despite being a high performing team there is also a strong focus on agile working with a widespread commitment to open communication, agile working arrangements, trust and respect.
Benefiting from early client exposure and working with and learning from some of the top practitioners in our field, you will develop quickly, add real value and build credibility in the industry from an early stage thus increasing your own marketability.
The Manager role will include the following activities:
- Developing your leadership capabilities by effectively managing teams for the delivery of client work whilst also playing an active role in the career development of more junior team members
- Leveraging your subject matter expertise and taking a lead on projects whilst developing innovative thought leadership. You will have the opportunity to learn from the best in the Business and also help recruit the best people, coach and support them whilst driving activity such as proposition development and marketing.
- Assignments will be focused across the full spectrum of the Retail Banking industry and will include:
- Banking Efficiency and Automation, including Robotic Process Automation
- Complex Banking Transformation
- Structural Reform and Regulation
- Front-to-Back Digital Banking
Responsibilities
Managers will have responsibility for:
- Delivering complex programmes of work across the above Assignment areas
- Understanding and anticipating client needs based on a strong understanding of retail banking institutions and their associated processes requirements, developing strong client relationships
- Managing and leading teams’ effective analysis of data, identification of issues; creating and testing hypotheses and developing and communicating recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Guiding teams in selecting and applying the most appropriate tools, techniques and approaches to deliver client work
- Supporting, managing and leading team members
- Developing work plans for engagements and producing exceptional deliverables for clients
- Having a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them and a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
- Leading business development work, including the preparation of bids and proposals
- Taking a lead role in the development and growth of the Banking & Insurance practice
Requirements
To qualify for the role you must have:
- Significant delivery experience in one of the above Assignment areas within a consulting firm at a retail/commercial/ wealth bank
- Subject matter expertise in a detailed area of the UK banking industry and market, its core trends and drivers, with proficiency in articulating regulatory, economic, technological and business impacts on key institutions
- Excellent project and programme management disciplines including production of detailed project plans, key quality programme deliverables and working and delivering to strict time constraints
- Excellent ability in Microsoft Office, particularly in PowerPoint and Excel
- Exceptional communication and people skills, able to articulate complex ideas to all levels of an organisation, and effectively lead and manage all key stakeholders and team members, resolving issues, competing demands and conflicts
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work on diverse teams with a diverse range of people
- Ability to manage functional teams and nurture talent development
- An understanding of risk, how to mitigate risk and protect the firm's reputation
- Enthusiasm and passion for the delivery of market leading solutions that make a difference
- An understanding of the diverse requirements of clients and the need to work on projects in differing geographies and time zones
Additional desirable experience includes:
- Experience in embedding project delivery principles and knowledge of methodologies including Lean, Six Sigma, BPR techniques and implementation methodologies
We are Consulting
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- Technology
- Strategy & Operations
- Human Capital
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We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture. We are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support agile working arrangements. We recognise that our people are juggling demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work.
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