Agile Strategy and Transformation Consultant – Financial Services

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.


Job Description

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
Location - This role will be aligned to our London office, based in Victoria.
Application deadline: ASAP
Are you passionate about helping businesses to deliver better outcomes, faster? Do you specialise in driving commercial performance and operational excellence? If you match this description and are passionate about what you do, we would love to hear from you.

We are a leading consultancy and thought leader in organisational agility. We are looking for experts with the experience to lead clients through an exciting journey to fundamentally transform their business to accelerate the creation of value. You will bring your expertise in strategy, business design and operating models, agile ways of working, product management, lean, and change management.

You will be part of an inspiring global team that leads the way in driving organisational agility across some of the most exciting brands in financial services across Banking, Payments, Wealth and Asset Management, Pensions, and Insurance. Our clients span the UK, US, Nordics and increasingly in Australia where we are looking to build our team out. So, with an increasing number of overseas assignments, there is plenty of opportunity to travel.

Our rich track record in organisational agility gives us unrivalled experience, collateral and insight. We have transformed some of the largest global banks, accelerated drug development in healthcare and life sciences, helped transform the world to green energy, catapulted a fintech into the S&P500 and reimagined visas and immigration. That’s just a few of our incredibly inspiring assignments that we have delivered!

We are looking for exceptional strategy and transformation experts to join our growing team. Candidates will have the opportunity to:

Bring their passion, purpose, insight and impact to design and embed solutions that drive tangible outcomes within our clients
Fundamentally re-wire a client’s business to build a vibrant and dynamic place to work, accelerate the pace of change and delivery of value
Focus on changing the skills and behaviours of organisations and their people at scale, enabling clients to ensure they achieve their goals, working in blended teams (doing it “with clients” not “to clients”)
Ensure we connect our client’s organisational strategy to the practical work of portfolios and teams to deliver the right change at pace
Be part of an exceptionally vibrant agile community, and work with Operational Excellence, Growth Strategy, Digital, People and Change practitioners to grow your broader skillset.

Qualifications

You will have some, if not all, of the following:

Market sector knowledge: You will know the financial services market sector well and create solutions that are specific to a client’s market context (e.g. banking, insurance, asset management and payments)
Transformation Management: You will be experienced in shaping and leading (or being part of a transformation team) all facets of an agile transformation at scale, such as driving quantitative and qualitative benefits tracking
Business Design and Operating Model: Applying your experience of business design and agile operating models, to build lived structures that work end to end across a business to build compelling solutions
Shared Services and Operations: An understanding of how to drive at scale the interlock between engineering, shared services and operations to more effectively and efficiently link strategy to production
Executive enablement: Applying your exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to bring senior leaders on a transformation journey and its constituent parts
Education: You will have experience in shaping, creating and implementing agile content to educate, upskill and enable organisational agility to come to life and continuously evolve
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM): Applied expertise in LPM practices to help clients overcome challenges as they move from projects to products (e.g. budgeting and funding), defining OKR frameworks, implementing portfolio Kanbans, creating work and tooling taxonomies and demand intake and prioritisation techniques
Product Management: Experience in Product Lifecycle Management, showing clients how to move through each stage of a product lifecycle from market analysis, design-thinking workshops, work breakdown techniques
Stakeholder Management: Experience in helping critical enabling functions (e.g. HR, Finance, Risk) understand organisational agility and their role in helping its sustainable adoption
Agile ways of working: Experience in helping executives and senior leaders understand, embrace and adopt agile ways of working to inspire their teams, leading from the front to make organisational agility persistent, pervasive and able to continuously evolve

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