Financial Services Strategy Consultant (Banking and Capital Markets)
Job Role: Financial Services Strategy Consultant (Banking and Capital Markets)
Location: London
Career Level: Consultant
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.
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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.
Accenture Strategy’s UK Financial Services business shapes the future for banks, asset & wealth managers, exchanges, brokers and insurers. The outlook for these sectors is certainly challenging with Covid-19 disruption, regulatory scrutiny, margin pressure and the burden of legacy operating models and technology. At the same time, stakeholders of all types expect new value to be delivered – value linked to sustainability and responsibility. A ‘decade of action’ lies ahead with the leaders accelerating towards a model which is purpose-driven, operationally innovative and value-generating.
In our team you will learn to:
Solve complex client business problems, bringing structure and quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques
Lead definition of strategic direction, using analysis to address our clients’ business challenges
Develop knowledge of prevailing trends, financials and operating drivers; identifying industry specific operating and financial metrics
Build and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite
Contribute to business development
In this role you will:
Lead successful strategy engagements addressing our clients’ business challenges, delivering lasting and distinctive outcomes and value in disciplines such as:
Corporate and Business Strategy
Helping our clients with “Go to market” strategy design, including portfolios and product offerings assessment, proposition development, divestment decisions, offerings expansion, booking model design and implementation
Operating Model Strategy and Transformation
Helping our clients to establish new mindsets and structures that drive long term value aligned to their strategic direction
Digital, data & AI transformation
Helping our clients navigate complex strategic choices on how digital can be used to reimagine their products, propositions, and customer experiences and how to establish modern technology, data and AI capabilities to extract near-term and sustainable value
Innovation and Growth
Solving for profitability and enterprise value by helping our clients to reimagine value chains and offerings that drive competitiveness and re-imagine the sectors that they participate in
Understand client issues and structure the problem in order to develop hypotheses around possible solutions
Structure and create business/market assessments
We are looking for experience in the following:
Experience at a top tier or boutique consulting firm or through an ‘in-house’ consulting / business development role (e.g. Group Strategy, Group Corporate Development), with a particular focus on:
Corporate and business strategy definition
Business model assessment, design and implementation
Operating model assessment, design and implementation
Digital, data & AI strategy
Familiarity with recognized Strategy frameworks
Experience of research, quantitative analysis and structured problem solving
A good understanding of how Banking and Capital Markets clients operate including products, players, value chains business models, operating models, industry trends and challenges and regulatory frameworks
A robust understanding of financial statements, the drivers of ROE, profit and shareholder returns
Experience of working in diverse teams in complex strategy engagements
Programme management experience
Academic Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
Set yourself apart:
Quantitative skills required to develop financial/operational models
An appreciation of how technology and digital can contribute to solving clients’ complex business problems and experience of working with FinTech providers
Experience with mentoring junior level practitioners
Exposure/involvement in sales origination and/or involvement with the commercial management of consulting engagements
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 and discounts on range of gyms, private medical insurance and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to deliver the first-class services we are known for.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers.
Our 537,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.