Associate Manager – Wealth & Asset Management Practice (US & Canada)

SIA; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global management consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a Consulting professional with over 6 years of client-facing experience. The role involves project delivery, team supervision, and strategic business development. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Business and strong interpersonal skills. Join a dynamic environment where excellence and teamwork are valued.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of recent client-facing management consulting experience, preferably in Financial Services.
• Proven communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Flexibility to adapt in unstructured environments with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client projects as part of on-site or remote teams.
• Manage project streams and lead simple projects.
• Supervise project teams in client assignments.

Skills

Client delivery

Planning and prioritization

Communication skills

Research and business analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

MS Project

Job description

Overview

Company: Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group with a focus on strategy, management consulting, and financial services. We support clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries, delivering results through our expertise across sectors and services.

Strategy & Management Consulting: Sia’s global footprint spans more than 40 sectors and services, guiding projects in strategy, business transformation, and IT & digital strategy. In Financial Institutions, Sia’s Financial Services Business Unit provides core capabilities to address evolving client needs in a dynamic environment.

Job Description

Consulting Skills

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team
• Demonstrate the capacity to plan assigned work, identify priorities and stakeholders, and conduct regular progress points
• Present complex ideas, critical points, and decisions to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
• Manage, organize and prioritize work activities and assignments to meet deadlines, while communicating effectively with clients, internal stakeholders and leadership
• Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve client challenges, presenting tailored solutions using quantitative and qualitative data
• Utilize higher-level methodological concepts to prepare client deliverables using PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio; design key deliverables and support others in production
• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, contributing to internal communications and readiness activities
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health
• Responsible for work streams of a complex project and lead on simple projects
• Maintain program sites as a repository for project information

Business Expertise Skills

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge and deepen understanding within a sector and function domain
• Share experiences related to business issues and demonstrate knowledge transfer among peers and junior staff
• Help contribute to and support Sia’s growing U.S. Wealth & Asset Management practice
• Be a great teammate

Business Development Skills

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities
• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and leaders

People Management Skills

• Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment
• Emb ody the firm’s values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into management style

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a Business or related field
• 6+ years of recent client-facing management consulting experience (FS background preferred)
• Leadership and mentorship experience
• Moderate knowledge and skill in consumer banking and payments
• Trained to moderate knowledge and skill in project management
• Experience supporting client interview sessions — note-taking, meeting minutes, scheduling
• Experience supporting the construction of executive presentations
• Proven communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Act as a supportive team player who develops relationships and shares knowledge with colleagues and clients
• Flexibility to adapt quickly and take initiative in unstructured environments with limited supervision
• Ability to transform domain knowledge and project experiences into published content for Sia Partners Insights

Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
• Sia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.