Senior Manager – Up to £120K

Senior Manager – Capital Markets / Investment Banking Change Consultant – Up to £120K

Our client, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry is currently looking for a senior manager to join their growing business.

Role Overview
As a business they are looking for management consultants with a proven record of successfully delivering new client programmes or rescuing existing programmes across technology, business change and service transformation within Capital Markets (e.g. Investment Banking Operations change, OTC Derivatives and Clearing, Risk and Regulatory change)
The role requires the ability to manage and lead programmes, their inter-dependencies, and resolve any risks/issues that may arise. The Senior Manager is responsible for overall delivery assurance, integrity and coherence of the programme by developing and maintaining a programme environment capable of supporting each delivery phase.

Key Responsibilities
• Building credible, trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
• Planning, leading and delivering large-scale transformational programmes (100+ resources, £50m+ budget, multi-year, multi-functional, multi-geography, on/off-shore), and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective actions
• Implementing programme governance, running the design authority and providing quality assurance.
• The ability to focus inwardly on the consistency of the programme and outwardly on coherence with infrastructure, other programmes and corporate technical and specialist standards
• Delivering multiple projects using a variety of methodologies within the same programme
• Planning and managing the programme’s budget and third party contributions and costs, and monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realised benefits
• Ensuring that the delivery of new products or services from the projects is high quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the programme plan and governance structure
• Ensuring that there is efficient allocation of common resources and skills within the project portfolio
• Building successful, motivated, productive teams
• Supporting business sales opportunities, including contributing to or leading RFIs and RFPs

Experience
• Successful delivery of large scale complex programmes in the Capital Markets and investment banking world, within a management consulting firm
• Presenting to Executive boards and dealing with challenging stakeholders
• Remaining calm under pressure and thinking clearly to address difficult problems such as conflicting agendas, budget over run, poor initial estimating and benefits management
• Working effectively with third party suppliers by building good relationships and controlling them to deliver and take ownership of their issues
• Turning dysfunctional teams in to performing teams that can deliver
• Exceptional leadership and communications skills
• Experience in at least 3 of the following: Service Delivery, Application Management, Application Delivery or Business Change
• Experience of working in a range of different business areas as a consultant, not just one niche vertical
• Ability to create project teams through a management consulting resourcing model

Additional Requirements
• Extensive knowledge of formal project management methodologies and programme planning and control techniques
• Significant experience of large scale budget and resource allocation responsibility
• Gravitas and credibility to advise other project teams of the impact they will have on the programme
• Strong influencing skills and ability to positively and sensitively work with senior stakeholders

Senior Manager – Capital Markets / Investment Banking Change Consultant – Up to £120K