India Market Unit - Strategy & Consulting - FS - Consultant

Work Location: Mumbai | Years of experience: 4+ yrs| Entity: India Business |

Level: Consultant

Accenture Consulting works at the heart of its clients' organisations and helps address their most complex issues. As an experienced financial services professional, your market-leading industry, management and technology expertise will provide critical solutions that answer unparalleled strategic, operational, technology and sourcing demands. And, in doing so, you'll improve the future of the global financial services industry.

Accenture serves the world's leading financial services organisations across three industry groups:

Banking

Retail and commercial banks and diversified financial institutions.

Capital Markets

Investment banks, broker/dealers, asset-management firms, depositories, exchanges, clearing & settlement organisations.

Insurance

Property and casualty insurers, life and annuity insurers, reinsurance firms and insurance brokers.

Key responsibilities

Engagement Management:

• Incumbent will lead engagements for FS clients. These engagements include helping clients develop corporate strategies, make strategic M&A decisions, structure effective business and operating models, and transform their businesses - all in an effort to grow their business while maintaining or reducing costs.Content & Promotional Optimization: Navigation path between touchpoints and their reach and importance by country.
• Lead or support project teams in delivery of project.

Client Delivery and Development

• Plays a significant role in identifying new strategy consulting opportunities with our clients, shaping proposals, and gaining client agreement/approval to move forward
• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of our clients' strategic/organizational objectives
• Leads strategy engagements; Synthesizes numerous analytic efforts to draw meaningful conclusions, identify implications for recommendations, and achieve client buy-in
• Frequent interaction with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves presenting analysis and recommendations, facilitating workshops, and negotiating or influencing on significant matters
• Develops and maintain strong trust-based relationships with clients
• Managing activities and deliverables against plan, reviewing draft output, and providing feedback/coaching to project team members
• Assesses and manages risks and issues, ultimately ensuring that project objectives are achieved.

People Development:

• Develop a team of professionals to enable growth
• Perform role of counselor and coach, provide input and guidance into the firm’s staffing process, and actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities

Professional qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience from working within Financial Services
• 3 years of external consulting experience at renowned consulting firm
• Worked on Digital product offerings in Financial Services
• Prior IT services Sales and Sales Support / Sales enablement role for Banking clients
• Good knowledge of Banking and Financial Services industry domain skills - especially in areas like Commercial Banking, Payments and Treasury, Lending, Credit Cards, Wealth and Investment Management, Capital Markets,
• Good knowledge of emerging trends in IT like Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Digital transformation, Etc.

Domain knowledge:

• Plays a significant role in identifying new strategy consulting opportunities with our clients, shaping proposals, and gaining client agreement/approval to move forward
• Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of our clients’ strategic/organizational objectives
• Leads strategy engagements; Synthesizes numerous analytic efforts to draw meaningful conclusions, identify implications for recommendations, and achieve client buy-in
• Frequent interaction with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves presenting analysis and recommendations, facilitating workshops, and negotiating or influencing on significant matters
• Develops and maintains strong trust-based relationships with clients
• Managing activities and deliverables against plan, reviewing draft output, and providing feedback/coaching to project team members
• Assesses and manages risks and issues, ultimately ensuring that project objectives are achieved.
• Exposure to bank strategy, digital transformation, journey design, value realization, consulting on AI projects

Professional Development Skills
- Strong Product Management Skills
- Prior experience in a Consulting firm will be preferred.
- Experience working with “C” level executive clients

What’s in-store for you?

• Learn and grow continuously: Build new skills, grow existing skills, develop new areas of expertise within functional, technical or industry areas of the business with Accenture’s unmatched 24/7 expert-curated learning boards, webinars and classroom-style training programs

• Innovate: Get access to resources that will allow you to leverage the latest technologies and bring innovation to life with the world’s most recognizable companies

• Thrive and advance: Grow your career as far as your ambitions take you.
• Truly human: Bring your whole self to a company that aims to be the most diverse in the world and delivers real-time performance feedback based on your strengths, not stats

• Leverage your advanced analytics to co-create technology-enabled, agile strategies to enable clients to win competitive advantage, unlock value and drive profitable growth.

• Design and implement route to market projects, enabling companies to get the right products and services to the right customers at the right time.

• If your team grows, you will grow. So, develop and share best practices to empower your team.

Join our team of innovators and shape the future of the world’s biggest companies.

Visit our official page to read more about Accenture’s work in the given area: https://www.accenture.com/in-en/industries/financial-services-index

Educational qualifications

MBA from Tier 1 University with an excellent academic background
 

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