Principal Consultant in London

At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture. As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.

Position Purpose

The Principal Consultant is a core member of a layered, multi-disciplinary team responsible for designing, developing, testing and implementing a business solution. As the Principal Consultant, you will be accountable for the delivery and quality of all consulting assignments throughout the implementation lifecycle. The Principal Consultant will support the client's product proposition and operating model throughout the implementation of the Sonata software package. Part of your role as a Principal Consultant will be to mentor Senior Consultants and Business Consultants as well as own objective setting and performance feedback.

Main Activities

• Define the scope of the project, understanding the client's business operating model to fit with Sonata.
• Influencing our clients to shape their requirements to match 'out of the box' functionality provided by Sonata.
• Validate client requirements, challenging where necessary to ensure clarity of business drivers, plus appropriate balance of cost/benefit and adopt/adapt.
• Ensure that the proposed solution aligns to the objectives and success criteria for the project.
• All business consulting documentation to be reviewed and approved by the Principal Consultant, ensuring high quality documentation.
• Pioneer and ensure appropriate use of, and adherence to Bravura processes and templates for all Consultant activities within the applicable projects and initiatives.
• Where necessary, author documentation and support triage.
• Use agile methodologies where appropriate, and support use of UML (structured use case specs) as a methodology.
• Ensure adherence to Business Consulting quality gates and readiness of specifications for build.
• Where necessary, handover requirements to Design and Build phase of project.
• Ratify the project's estimates of effort; ensuring the estimates are joined up, accurate and the work is delivered within the agreed commercials.
• Verify that the various project phases are well aligned and that participants understand the goals and deliverables.
• Provide guidance to the project management team in determining and ratifying scope change.
• Will have accountability for the overall quality of the delivered solution, advising clients on Sonata best practice.
• Ensuring project retrospective improvements highlighted for the consulting team are implemented.
• Ownership and proactive management of the quality and performance of all consultants under your remit.
• Setting of objectives and ownership of performance feedback for business consultants assigned to you.
• Assist in allocation of consultants to consultancy tasks including managing Consultant day to day activities, providing guidance on requirement elaboration, solution design and triage.
• Proactively promote, facilitate, and lead training and knowledge transfer across the Consulting team.
• Work with the project manager and solution architect to support overall delivery of the project.

Additional Activities

• Build and maintain in-depth understanding of the products and propositions operated by current and prospective clients including knowledge of applicable industry regulations.
• Support engagement with both current and prospective clients through providing clear and effective presentation of system capabilities within SME scope, and their applicability to client propositions and requirements.

Key Skills

• Effective influencing, leadership, coordination, motivational, negotiation and dispute resolution skills.
• Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the application architecture.
• Ability to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to operations and system planning across a range of technologies.
• Strong understanding and application of change management competencies.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office tools particularly Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Understanding and management of complex release schedules and source management.
• Strong client management and collaboration skills.
• Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple, simultaneous projects and resilience to work effectively under time pressure.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Proactive approach to work.
• Proven eagerness for continual personal development.
• Organised with the ability to plan and achieve outcomes.
• Clear communication style, whether written or oral, effective in presentations.

Typical Experience

• 8+ years' experience as a Business Analyst or Business Consultant with 12+ years working knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Be a subject matter expert in two to three areas at an SME level in the financial domain space.
• Proven experience of leading a feasibility/discovery phase with clients.
• Experience of UK retail savings and investment products.
• Experience of working within successful technology implementation programmes and software development.
• Operations team leadership within financial services.
• Educated to degree level (desirable but not necessary in a science, engineering or mathematical subject).

So, what’s next? We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion so even if you don’t match every listed skill or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you. Please note that interviews are primarily conducted virtually and if you require any reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use, please let us know. All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a criminal record and background check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.