Job description

Our talented consultants enable our Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Unit to deliver a myriad of business transformation solutions to our clients. The FSI Business Unit has led and managed projects for top-tier, global clients ranging from strategy, target operating model design, regulatory governance and remediation to technology transformation, program & project management, and business analysis. We have experience providing these solutions to clients within their Sales & Trading, Risk Management, Finance, Treasury, and Operations & Technology functions.  

Responsibilities  

Consulting Skills 

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team   
• Demonstrate the capacity to plan assigned work and identify priorities/interesting parties of the project/assignment, conducts regular points of progress  
• Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management   
• Manage, organize and prioritize work activities & assignments to achieve deadlines while communicating effectively with clients, internal stakeholders and leadership   
• Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data   
• Utilize higher-level methodological concepts to prepare client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables   
• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups  
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health   
• Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects   
• Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information 

Business Expertise Skills  

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide  
• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain  
• Share experiences related to business issues and demonstrate a capacity for knowledge transfer amongst peers and junior staff   
• Help contribute and support Sia’s growing U.S. Corporate Investment Banking practice 
• Be a great teammate 

Business Development Skills  

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously   
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities   
• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders  

People Management Skills  

• Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment  
• Embody the firm’s values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into their management style