Associate Director, Financial Services (Asset Servicing), Programme Leadership, Major Programme ...

DELOITTE LLP; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in the United Kingdom seeks individuals for their Major Programmes practice. The role involves leading complex transformations, engaging with senior stakeholders, and leveraging industry expertise to drive significant programs. Candidates should possess strong leadership, consulting experience, and a proven ability to navigate digital changes, ensuring successful delivery and innovation.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering large-scale transformations across multiple geographies.
• Strong understanding of digital/technology-driven change.
• Proven ability to build trust-based relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to design and deliver strategically significant programs.
• Support business development and build client relationships.
• Contribute to internal practice development activities.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Consulting experience

Job description

Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Are you energised by the opportunity to tackle some of the world's biggest and most complex social, environmental and economic challenges? Do you get excited about working with a diverse and global team of experts and experienced professionals? Are you passionate about leading organisations through transformation to deliver value and sustainable benefits to their customers, clients and staff?

Deloitte's Major Programmes practice could be the place for you! Deloitte's Major Programmes practice (part of the wider Human Capital offering) is currently recruiting for individuals with industry and technical skills that can strengthen our capability to address complex programme challenges and create conditions for success for the world's most impactful programmes.

Job Description

Major Programmes typically involve the delivery of a major capital asset or infrastructure through large, complex programmes that require significant investments and span multiple years. Our clients look to us and our deep and broad programme delivery expertise to lead them through complex transformations and implement new and effective ways to deliver major programmes.

Our market leading next generation delivery approach, Programme Aerodynamics, replaces siloed, conventional, linear thinking with multi-disciplinary capability to help our clients deliver their most critical and demanding programmes while reinforcing Deloitte's commitment to purpose-led change.

Your Role

• Take the lead in partnering with clients to solve complex issues, through leading teams to design, shape and deliver strategically significant projects and programmes
• Work with a range of senior stakeholders both internally within Deloitte and in client organisations at all levels, as a subject matter expert on Programme Leadership
• Apply a combination of consulting experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology to anticipate and address programme/portfolio challenges with client and colleague teams
• Lead teams from across different parts of Deloitte, clients and other partners to deliver complex client programmes and critical outcomes
• Support business development by building client relationships, contributing to new business proposals, and taking key roles in industry and account teams
• Contribute to internal practice development by participating in proposition, methodology and point of view development activities, and supporting knowledge capture and sharing
• Demonstrate excellent presentation, facilitation and communication skills across all levels of client and Deloitte stakeholders

Requirements

• Leading components of large-scale business / technology / organisational transformation programmes, ideally across multiple geographies and/or business functions, using traditional and/or agile methodologies with a strong understanding of digital/technology enabled change
• Experience in delivering programmes within the Asset Servicing sector, and preferred to have experience in at least one of the following types of programmes: Technology-Led Transformation, Digital and/or Cloud transformation, Implementation of digital user experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud-based ERP and/or other cloud architectures; Regulatory driven transformation
• Programme strategy: definition and planning, delivery strategy, business case development; mergers and acquisitions
• Portfolio design: alignment of programmes with business strategy; frameworks to shape and manage delivery through the cycle
• Programme set-up: delivery/operating model design, commercial model structure, definition and mapping of programme outcomes
• Programme delivery: project and programme management, programme controls/assurance, risk management, and operational readiness
• Programme recovery: executive level engagement, recovery planning, and experience reshaping programmes
• Commercial and contract management, and strong understanding of engagement risk, either in a professional services environment or as a customer of a professional services partner
• Demonstrated record of building long standing, trust-based relationships with clients, and identifying opportunities to sell and deliver complex organisation transformation
• Experience leading development of client propositions, and a track record of winning work in the market, and including leading the structuring of teams and commercials, and mobilising new engagements
• Extensive industry knowledge and trends, and deep expertise in programme leadership, bringing lessons learnt and insights to clients and the wider Deloitte group
• Experience of contributing to thought leadership, points of view, publications and business strategy
• Highly experienced stakeholder management and influencing skills, and relationship building at all levels including the C-suite
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of an organisation including senior management
• Demonstrated history of inclusive leadership and managing and coaching diverse teams. Role-modelling collaborative working and teaming

Deloitte Values

We lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Human Capital

People are what powers enterprise. That's why we need to focus on the human experience in an ever-changing, digital world. We help clients utilise technology to support their workforce, organisation, and HR Transformations.