FILLED (ref # DB6084), Business Strategy Consultants, Financial Services

Business Strategy Consultants - Interim

Financial Services,

London,

6months + Up to £700 per day

Role Summary

Our client, a UK financial services organisation, requires a number of interim business strategy consultants with strategic and financial services experience to work in its internal Business Consulting Group (BCG).

The BCG has recently been established to improve the client's internal programme and project delivery capacity. The main purpose of the BCG is to shape and scope new business strategies, acting as an independent consulting partner to ensure an appropriate balanced portfolio of change / process / IT projects and programmes within the organisation.

Application Deadline

Please ensure that your CV is submitted ASAP or no later than 5 pm on Friday 25th March to be considered for the first submission to the client.

Role Detail

Reporting directly to the Head of BCG, the interim business strategy consultants will act as the interface between the Operations Business Unit (OBU) and the rest of the organisation.

They will work with stakeholders to deliver either self-contained pieces of business consulting to deliver against their strategic objectives, or to shape and scope ideas to turn them into viable project propositions that can be subsequently implemented by the client's IS Division.

Specific responsibilities include:

· Understanding the business strategy, business drivers and strategic objectives of Divisional Directors and Heads of Department, and translating these into well scoped consulting proposals that help stakeholders deliver against their objectives

· In conjunction with the Business Consulting Partners, working to establish effective stakeholder relationships within a given Division at all levels

· Working as part of a consulting engagement to produce deliverables delivering tangible value for stakeholders, examples of which include: Strategic Vision; Governance Framework; Impact Assessment; Target Operating Model; Roadmap for Change

· Defining pre-project concept documents for viable projects that are pragmatic and implementable, which establish the proposition for taking an idea onto the project portfolio and starting it up as a fully fledged project with supporting operational resource

· Contributing to successful hand-over to the Programme Management Group, maintaining oversight of project delivery beyond their move into Start Up

· Working collaboratively with other members of the BCG team to establish and deliver against a sustainable pipeline of work

· Helping to develop consulting collateral and knowledge capital for the BCG Department

Key Skills and Requirements

The following knowledge, skills and experience are required:

Essential

· Top Tier consulting experience - preferably in strategy consulting, with demonstrable
experience of understanding the operational implications of strategy

· Financial services sector experience

· Proven ability to partner with senior level stakeholders (Directors and Heads
of), understanding and managing their expectations to deliver against objectives

· Excellent communication skills; oral, written, presentational, facilitation

Desirable

· Knowledge of Financial Services risk management and regulatory initiatives,
i.e. Basel II, Solvency II

· Understanding of international regulatory developments

· Understanding of the policy development lifecycle