Senior Manager - Banking in Manchester

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow, informed and validated by science and data, superpowered by creativity and design, all underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your role:

You will be working with the world’s largest and most innovative Financial institutions to help them deliver on the upcoming market infrastructure transformation whether focused on regulatory, technology or operations. You will have proven your delivery track record across Banking and be driven to build steady relationships to provide value to our current and new clients. You will be ready for the challenge of helping to build a portfolio for the Invent brand, bringing your network and content credibility to bear. You will typically partner across one or more accounts and provide thought leadership in key areas.

As a Senior Manager in the Invent Banking team, you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, modelling our values and behaviours, and coaching and developing junior members of the team. Our people are flexible, and the scope of your role will vary with each project, in line with the breadth and depth of your experience. Our consultants are at the heart of delivering profitable outcomes in business and technology-oriented environments, working collaboratively with a broad range of clients to achieve their strategic goals.

• Support the management and growth of one or more accounts across the entire Invent offering portfolio.
• Pro-actively open new connections and bring the team with you to maximise impact on client.
• Work with leading companies developing, prioritising and delivering the banking institutions of the future.
• Design and lead streams of work whilst playing a role in Capgemini’s growth through successful delivery, contributing to our offers and knowledge, as well as developing new business.
• Identify and analyse problems and issues that may affect the successful delivery and adoption of our proposed solutions into the business.
• Bring the right combination of style and substance, ensuring that the basics are right, whilst always focusing on how we add value to our clients.
• Work collaboratively in cross-functional teams to drive continuous business performance improvement.

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your profile:

You’ll have deep Banking and hands-on Consulting experience and you’ll have novel points of view regarding the future of the industry. Ideally, you will have covered more than one area within banking such as payments. You should have practitioner knowledge of banking and ideally broad cross asset class experience of products gained from industry roles (for example as product controller) and in addition one or more of the following:

• Experience implementing regulatory changes across Banking across the front/middle and back office in capacity of PM, analyst or change expert.
• Experience across consultancy or banking firm in retail banking, private banking, wholesale banking, investment banking, market infrastructure and financial technology.
• Knowledge of changes in financial services regulation.
• Understanding of 3 lines of defence and how data and controls are executed.
• Experience in developing and executing the technology roadmap in a banking environment (including views on digital/AI/Cloud/DLT and crypto).
• Hands-on experience of the quant model life cycle and an understanding of how it could be optimised.
• Knowledge and experience of ESG is highly advantageous.

You’ll also bring:

• Experience in people management and proven ability to nurture and develop individuals.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation and to enlist support and commitment from peers in developing, selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Business development – utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre-existing relationships, company relationships and your own network, you’ll be capable of generating consulting revenues.

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on grade and on company and personal performance.