Management Consulting Senior Manager - Banking in Midlothian

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. We are looking for an ambitious Senior Manager, with experience gained within Management Consulting, ideally aligned to Commercial and/or Retail Banking.

As a team, 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 Senior 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 showcase:

• Industry experience in Commercial or Retail Banking – including experience in core banking processes and related technologies, mortgages, payments, cards and related regulatory change.
• Business and technology expertise across the end-to-end Commercial or Retail credit lifecycle spanning sales, origination, fulfilment, servicing and portfolio management.

In addition, you will:

• Support Banking Transformation programmes – including strategy development, operating model changes and technology implementations
• Manage all parts of projects, from client buy-in to planning, budgeting and execution.
• Source and coordinate work from other Accenture teams
• Develop our next generation Banking offerings
• Lead, mentor and develop junior consultants and analysts within the Banking practice, fostering a high-performance team culture
• Become a trusted advisor for C-suite clients looking to solve critical business problems
• Drive business development to originate new client opportunities
• Build your reputation as an industry thought leader
• Have the opportunity to work for global clients; with opportunities to travel if you wish
• Support in the development of sales proposals and offerings
• Contribute Banking SME knowledge to a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
• Contribute to the Banking practice community and build a network across Accenture & clients.

We are looking for experience in the following skills and experience:

• Experience working within Retail or Commercial Banking either in an advisory, operational or leadership capacity; ideally within a bank or professional services firm
• Understanding of the latest Banking trends and pertinent regulations and the evolving AI governance framework
• Experience working with Banking technologies, including core banking platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data/analytics tooling
• Practical knowledge or hands-on experience applying GenAI or AI-enabled tools within a banking or financial services context (e.g. AI-driven credit decisioning, fraud detection, customer experience)
• Minimum of 5 years of Banking credit (sales, operations, origination, servicing, portfolio management, trading) project management experience with relevant systems
• Experience or knowledge of agile delivery methodology including writing or contributing to user stories
• Strong MS Office skills specifically in PowerPoint & Excel
• Presenting in person and virtually complex problems & solutions to senior stakeholders
• Working in a team setting to tight and agile deadlines
• Commercial awareness to support commercial engagements and spot market opportunities
• Ability to work across business, technology and operations stakeholders.

Set yourself apart:

• Experience in writing points of view or presenting on banking trends
• Experience working on a project using Agile delivery methodology
• Experience using data & analytics to understand a commercial or wholesale bank
• Experience with M&A or Integrations
• Knowledge of latest payment industry trends and impact to Retail or Commercial banking

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.