Management Consulting Manager - Banking in Edinburgh

Location: London, Edinburgh, Manchester

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Manager level

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments, and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.

As a team:

In today's world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That's where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client's unique path to reinvention.

You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformations and new kinds of value for your clients.

Management Consultants design and implement business changes that drive industry-specific, function and digital operating model transformation, focusing on tasks relating to people and processes. We help banks challenge their conventions; capitalize on the full potential of technology, their people and emerging opportunities; and become better at change.

The candidate will be a Manager within Accenture's Banking practice with a focus on Business and Technology Transformation within banking.

In our team you will learn:

• The latest industry innovations across both Retail and Commercial Banking, from organisation design through to GenAI
• Skills in the latest technologies that support successful banks such as cloud & advanced analytics
• How macroeconomic factors flow through to shaping the UK banking industry of the future
• How to deliver innovative solutions to tight timelines working as part of a team in a project delivery capacity
• How to build and develop your own brand and career working in the Accenture Banking team
• How to manage some of the most complex and large-scale transformational projects at this inflection point in the industry.

In this role you will support one or several of the following areas:

• Solution Design and Planning: Ability to work in a client-facing role that translates client requirements and business objectives into engineering solutions that shape large scale programmes to deliver the technology strategy for an organisation.
• Project and Programme Management: Experience in creating, implementing and operating within appropriate governance framework, leading multi-disciplinary teams to implement cutting edge technology at an enterprise level.
• Develop business cases to identify, measure and realise enterprise value with an emphasis on modern software engineering.
• Contribute to business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification, proposal development/presentation, and commercial contract negotiation.
• Contribute to developing the Accenture Strategy and Consulting Banking practice and building Accenture's banking offerings, assets, capabilities, and thought leadership.

We are looking for experience in the following:

• Experience working within Retail or Commercial Banking either in an advisory, operational or leadership capacity; ideally within a bank or professional services firm
• Strong client-facing experience with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to approach a problem in a structured manner and propose workable solutions.
• Ability to absorb and process information quickly.
• Consulting experience or ability to work in a consulting environment indispensable.

Your base location will be London. This role involves regular client-site working across the UK and Ireland; the frequency and pattern will vary by engagement and will be agreed with your project team.

Academic Requirements:

• An excellent University Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Set yourself apart:

• A drive for personal development and curiosity to learn new concepts and skills.
• Ability to understand complex issues, quickly absorb information, and work creatively in a problem-solving environment.
• Comfort with the quantitative skills required to develop financial/operational models and supervise data analysis.
• An appreciation of how technology and digital can contribute to solving clients' complex business problems; comfort operating at the intersection of business and technology - Awareness of GenAI and AI-enabled banking use cases (e.g. intelligent automation, AI-assisted credit assessment, customer personalisation) and how they translate into consulting engagements.
• Experience working with relevant FinTech providers
• Natural leadership and the ability to quickly build effective teams, establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication.
• Experience with staff development and ability to mentor junior practitioners.
• Proven presentation skills, personal impact and charisma to lead meetings, presentations and workshops.
• Confidence to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner with groups ranging from board rooms to business unit leads, and to constructively challenge team members and leadership to ensure the right client outcomes and value is delivered.
• Some exposure and/or involvement in sales origination, coupled with an entrepreneurial mind-set.
• Some involvement with the commercial management of consulting engagements.
• Strong project management skills, including experience working on a project using Agile delivery methodology
• Experience with M&A or Integrations

What's in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.