Financial Services - Wealth Asset Management - Associate Partner

Wavestone; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking an experienced Associate Partner to join their Financial Services Advisory team. In this role, you will drive business development, lead high-impact client engagements, and develop thought leadership initiatives. The ideal candidate has significant expertise in Wealth and Asset Management, strong consulting skills, and a proven ability to manage and lead teams. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible benefits, and a positive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus scheme

Income protection insurance

Private health and dental cover

25 days annual leave

Additional holiday options

Qualifications

• Significant experience in external client-facing consulting or equivalent roles.
• Proven track record of selling consulting services.
• Solid network of contacts within Financial Services.
• Experience in managing and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead sales activities and support business development.
• Oversee delivery of transformation initiatives and strategic advisory engagements.
• Develop propositions and thought leadership materials.
• Mentor and develop junior team members.

Skills

Consulting skills

Client engagement

Business development

Leading Transformation Programmes

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Company Description

Be part of a global consulting powerhouse, partnering with clients on their most critical strategic transformations.

We are Wavestone. Energetic, solution-driven experts who focus as much on people as on performance and growth. Hand in hand, we share a deep desire to make a positive impact. We are an ambitious firm with a worldwide reach and an ever-expanding portfolio of clients, topics, and projects.

Recognized by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2024, Wavestone UK now boasts a team of 300 employees, with ambitions to rapidly grow in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory, and IT advisory. We exist to provide end-to-end expert advice to clients across industries, with a particular focus on Insurance, Financial Services and Life Sciences – helping them to positively transform into modern, innovative organizations that thrive in a sustainable way.

In 2024, we received the UK’s Great Place to Work accreditation, and we are proud to have been recognized in the following Best Workplaces categories: Large Organizations, Wellbeing, Development and Best Workplace for Women.

Are you a true team player, living strong values? Are you a passionate learner, aiming to grow every day? Are you a driven go-getter, tackling challenges head-on? Then we could be the right fit for you.

Join Wavestone and thrive in an environment that’s empowering, collaborative, and full of opportunities to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions.

Job Description

Becoming part of the Financial Services Advisory team will present new opportunities for you to make a positive impact as we embark on securing major international accounts to support our growth in international markets.

This will mean working with our FTSE100 clients on a wide range of advisory projects, bringing deep business and technology expertise to help address opportunities and challenges across their organisations.

Your role as anAssociate Partner with extensive experience working in the Wealth and Asset Management field means being a key player to lead and drive the development of the Financial Services practice in terms of:

• Business Development: Be a subject matter expert, lead and support sales activity to include full lifecycle from pre-sales support, identification of opportunities & scope the delivery phase of engagements.

• Client Engagement Lead: Lead high-impact client engagements across the Wealth and Asset Management sector, overseeing delivery of transformation initiatives, operating model redesign, and strategic advisory engagements. Act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, helping them navigate evolving client expectations, regulatory pressures, and digital disruption.

• Thought leadership & proposition ownership: Be a key voice in our WAM community internally and externally, developing WAM related propositions, approaches to common client challenges, sharing knowledge and creating thought leadership and marketing materials that support sales efforts.

• People development: Act as an example and go-to for more junior members of the team, by sharing knowledge, mentoring, and coaching team members and leading by example. Possibly provide line management, and career development directly as part of our career development manager framework.

Qualifications

Whilst we do not expect candidates to meet every criterion, we’re looking for individuals with strong foundations in operations and/or technology-led transformation, and relevant experience across a significant majority of the following areas:

• Solid foundations in consulting skills with significant experience in external client-facing consulting or equivalent roles within the Wealth and Asset Management sector.

• Proven track record of selling consulting services (account planning, pitching to clients, proposals, value proposition development).

• Solid network of contacts within Financial Services.

• Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels of an organization, experience in managing and leading teams, developing and coaching the wider consulting team.

• Proven background leading Transformation Programmes and strong acumen enhancing advisory credibility.

• Domain Knowledge - Wealth Asset Management( ideally experience in some or all of the following areas ) :
  - Operating model best practice and target operating model design and delivery;
  - Front, middle and back-office systems and operations, inc. fund accounting, custody, transfer agency, etc.
  - End to end lifecycle of vendor / outsource partner strategy through to implementation;
  - Data strategy, data and application architecture and artificial intelligence use cases in the sector;
  - M&A support and execution within the sector;
  - Retail and institutional distribution;
  - Different asset classes such as public and private assets, hedge funds, and UCITs.

Additional Information

Our commitment: Wavestone values and Positive Way

• Elevate client satisfaction by impacting high-growth business across US, UK, and Europe. Shape culture, enhance value propositions, and foster business development.

• Nurture employee growth with Wavestone horizon career path, competitive compensation, transparent salary policy, tailored training, and internal mobility.

• Embrace a collective mindset within a barrier-free, collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events, meetings, and committees.

• Experience ethical responsibility with flexible work options, strong CSR commitment, and a culture promoting work-life balance and time-off.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme.

• Income protection insurance, 5% company pension, private health and dental cover, life insurance, company share scheme.

• Additional flexible benefits you can select from such as additional holidays, additional pension contributions, subsidized gym, subscriptions to wellbeing apps, Netflix, retail vouchers.

• 25 days annual leave.

Travel and Location

• Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full-time basis but are required to commute to the office /client site, whenever necessary. Wavestone UK office is in the heart of the city of London.

• Note: Mandatory 2-3 days per week in Wavestone office / client site during probation.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Wavestone, we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We have a strong global CSR agenda and an active Diversity & Inclusion committee with Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability Inclusion, Social Mobility and Anti-Racism networks.

If you need flexibility, assistance, or an adjustment to our recruitment process due to a disability or impairment, please reach out to us to discuss this.