Management Consultant - Banking in Manchester

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Career Level: Consultant

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.

The candidate will be a Consultant within Accenture's Banking practice with a focus on Business and Technology Transformation within commercial and corporate banking. In this role you will support one or several of the following areas:

• Project and programme Management: Work within appropriate governance frameworks, contributing to planning, risk tracking, and status reporting. Experience with Agile delivery and working closely with the Accountable Executives and Programme Managers. Ability in shaping, leading and controlling the delivery of complex, high risk and/or cross functional programmes, with pragmatic application of programme management methodologies, use of a clearly defined delivery roadmap and robust financial and risk management.
• Assume accountability for delivery of one or more projects and programs at a client. Mobilise the team, identify appropriate people resources and assign these individuals to projects. Engage with and lead senior Client stakeholders in both technology and business space and clearly communicate programme performance.
• Develop and apply industry knowledge to be able to make implementation-oriented recommendations. Develop and lead diverse and dispersed teams through effective leadership and coaching.

We are looking for experience in the following:

• A good broad understanding of Commercial or Retail Banking – including experience in core banking processes and related technologies, mortgages, payments, cards and related regulatory change.
• Strong client-facing experience with the ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Experience leading diverse teams in complex strategy and consulting engagements, delivering high-quality output in short timeframes.
• Understanding of emerging technology trends (Big Data, API, AI, Microservices, Blockchain, Cloud etc) and impact on both overall enterprise architecture and operating model.
• Experience in M&A/Integrations.
• 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, although most of our consultants work on lengthy client engagements within the UK and Ireland. Therefore, you must be willing to work away from home Monday to Friday as required.

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.
• 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 to mid-level practitioners.
• Excellent 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 ambitious mind-set.
• Some involvement with the commercial management of consulting engagements.
• Strong project management skills.

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.