Principal Consultant - Financial Services

Delta Capita; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Delta Capita, a fast-growing consulting business based in London, is seeking a Principal Consultant to directly partner with leading financial institutions and drive delivery excellence. You will act as the primary client contact within our Global Consulting team and lead engagements across the full lifecycle, including estimation, delivery, and ongoing improvement.

The role emphasizes strong leadership, change management expertise, and a deep understanding of capital markets.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial awareness with excellent delivery capability.
• Proven leadership across client and internal deliverables.
• Experience leading client engagements from estimation to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own account and project delivery for clients.
• Manage a team of consultants ensuring high delivery quality.
• Propose ideas for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Responsible for pipeline management including extensions, new opportunities, and pricing.
• Draft statements of work including rates and pricing.
• Contribute to internal initiatives and drive consulting expertise.

Skills

Commercial insight

Delivery leadership

People leadership

Project management

Business analysis

Client engagements

Change management

Capital markets knowledge

Technology implementation

Client relationships

Job description

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our fast-growing Consulting Business working with some of the world’s leading financial institutions.

As a Principal Consultant, the successful candidate will work directly with our clients to ensure they receive the quality consulting services that Delta Capita (DC) offers. You will be the primary point of contact between the customer and DC as part of our Global Consulting team based in London. You will have deep change management experience and prior success as a Principal Consultant or within a change role in a financial services institution.

As an experienced Principal Consultant, you will have:

• Strong commercial awareness alongside excellent delivery. Demonstrate leadership capability across client and internal deliverables.
• Contributed to internal initiatives and drive Consulting expertise, as well as supporting industry knowledge and commercials.
• Strong People Leader with proven man management experience.
• Proven experience in Project Management and Business Analysis within Financial Services through the full lifecycle.
• Led Client engagements, structured and planned out entire engagements, including estimation, and balances with client expectations. As well as proposing ideas for continuous improvement/ operational excellence to improve delivery.
• Change management expertise: Strategy, Design, Analysis, Project Management, Build Testing, Go-Live.
• Extensive understanding of Financial Services, including products and client lifecycle matters
• Managing projects and teams supporting successful project/programme deliveries
• Good knowledge of the capital markets eco-system and participants. E.g., Sell side, buy side, market infrastructure, etc.
• Experience in technology implementation and upgrade projects
• Demonstrate commercial awareness of how to leverage client relationships
• Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to clients

Responsibilities include;

• Own account and project delivery for clients.
• Manage a team of consultants ensuring high delivery quality.
• Propose ideas for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Responsible for pipeline management of the team/direct reports including; rolls offs, extensions, new opportunities, and pricing.
• Make valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to clients.
• Drafting and negotiating statements of work including rates/pricing.
• Contribute to internal initiatives and drive consulting expertise.

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, colour, disability, national origin, ancestry, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any reasonable adjustments through your interview process, please use the designated space within the application questionnaire.

This is a permanent full-time position located in London. As the selection and interview process is ongoing, please submit your application in English as soon as possible, if your profile is selected, a member of our team will contact you within 4 weeks. For this role, a valid working permit for the UK is mandatory.

Who We Are:

Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualised services for financial institutions for non-differentiating services.

Our 3 offerings are:

• Managed Services
• Consulting & Solutions
• Technology