Tech Strategy & Investment Planning Lead

Consult; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 92,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Consulting is assisting a large financial services client in Sheffield to secure a Strategy & Planning professional. The role focuses on turning strategic priorities into clear, commercially sound plans and recommendations.

You will engage senior stakeholders, translate high-level objectives, and deliver proactive, ownership-driven results. The position requires strong banking/financial services experience in a technology environment, with an emphasis on developing investment cases and

Qualifications

• Experience in banking/financial services with technology context.
• Proven ability to develop business/investment cases and make recommendations.
• Proactive self-starter with ability to translate high-level objectives into clear plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support strategic planning across major technology initiatives.
• Develop robust business cases and investment cases for projects and programmes.
• Translate strategic requirements into clear plans, recommendations and executive-level outputs.
• Respond to ad-hoc strategic requests from senior leadership, quickly structuring ambiguous problems and determining the appropriate approach.
• Provide commercial and financial insight to support investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Identify gaps, risks and opportunities and proactively drive them through to resolution.

Skills

Strategic planning

Analytical thinker

Stakeholder communication

Financial awareness

Job description

Essential Consulting is assisting a large financial services client in Sheffield to secure a Strategy & Planning professional. The role focuses on turning strategic priorities into clear, commercially sound plans and recommendations.

You will engage senior stakeholders, translate high-level objectives, and deliver proactive, ownership-driven results. The position requires strong banking/financial services experience in a technology environment, with an emphasis on developing investment cases and