Deloitte Consulting, Senior Consultant, Capital Markets Operations, Strategy & Operations, London
Role description
The Capital Markets Operations Practice helps clients improve their efficiency, effectiveness and control associated with operating in the traded markets.
Using sophisticated tools and methodologies, the Deloitte Capital Markets team plays an active role in the design and delivery of operating models for transformation programs, process transformation and / or business requirements for front office, product control, risk management, middle-, back-office and compliance functions for investment banks and capital markets entities.
Benefiting from direct client exposure and working with and learning from some of the top practitioners in our field, you will be given the opportunity to develop quickly, add real value for our clients and build credibility in the industry from an early stage.
As a Senior Consultant, you will work as part of a team of industry specialists providing consulting services to top tier investment banks and you will quickly build upon and/or develop industry knowledge and become an expert in operational processes, business architecture, continuous improvement and large scale transformation.
To be successful in this role of working on complex and challenging projects, you will need to focus on the front-to-back operations of trading activities across the full trade life cycle as well as understand client needs and translate them into feasible solutions aligned with the banks’ overall strategy.
Assignments will be focused across the full spectrum of the capital markets industry and will include:
- Operating model design and delivery
- Process Transformation
- Cost Reduction
- Risk and Regulation
- Business process strategy and redesign
- Product control
- Front to back trading
- Market infrastructure
Responsibilities
You will have responsibility for:
- Taking an active role in the design and delivery of operating models for transformation programmes for investment banks and capital market entities
- Understanding client needs and translating them into feasible solutions aligned with the project strategy
- Designing, improving or transforming investment banking and capital markets industry specific core operational processes
- Preparing new processes and/or business requirements for front office, product control, middle office and back office functions of investment banking clients and capital markets entities
Requirements
To qualify for the role you must have:
- Knowledge of investment banking and capital market instruments such as OTC derivatives, bonds, futures and money market
- Knowledge of front, middle or back office processes in the major capital market participants including investment banking, market infrastructure, custodians, hedge funds etc.
- Excellent communication skills
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience
- Full travel mobility
We are Consulting
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Technology
Strategy & Operations
Human Capital
We exist to solve complex problems
Our consultants are renowned for their straightforward approach to solving some of the world’s largest and most complex business challenges. With a team of over 3,000, each of us is energised by the challenge a seemingly inscrutable problem presents. Our distinctiveness lies in our refusal to accept a problem at face value - we draw on the depth of our shared insight to ask the right questions, and it’s these questions that uncover answers - answers with impact.
We are committed to collaboration
Our role is to unlock potential for growth and innovation. We believe this requires real collaboration ? with our own networks and with our clients. It’s why we commit to truly getting under the skin of our client’s needs, developing a full appreciation for their environment, goals and ambitions. We’re also unafraid to challenge. In so doing, we build long-term and trusted affinities.
We create long-term, sustainable impact
We often work hand-in-hand with our clients to help find the right solution and to help apply that solution. Our aim is to leave behind ambassadors who are equipped to continue the transformation we began. For us, it’s about embedding sustainable change, allowing the impact of our insight to be felt for a long time to come.
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About Deloitte
Deloitte offers integrated services that include Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with global business and industry expertise to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
We deliver outstanding impact on the reputation and success of our clients, in the UK and globally. In pursuing this we contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society, and are firm believers in the positive impact business can and should have on the world it operates within.
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service through our expertise and professionalism.
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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