Senior Consulting Manager (TMO/Cross Program Manager/Banking)

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Being part of Accenture Consulting means becoming an expert at making the New Happen Now. To us, the New is all about the wise pivot that turns constant disruption to continuous reinvention. We are an innovation led company that works at the heart of our clients’ organizations so that no matter how complex the business challenge, we face the future with confidence.

If you love solving challenges and not just studying them, then Accenture Consulting is the right place for you. Join us to develop your ideas into provocative points of view and transformative insights that help shape industries. You’ll work with an amazing and diverse mix of world-class experts with access to one of the most robust portfolios of capabilities and ecosystem relationships in the industry. Together, you’ll do so much more than consult.

As a part of Banking practice within the agile and distributed Strategy & Consulting:

1. You will contribute as a strategic partner, helping shape new business models, collaborate with clients in unconventional ways, rediscover their purpose, and commit to constant innovation.

2. Bring in your technological expertise and a global perspective to enable banks and payment providers take bold steps to thrive and be future-ready. Help us reshape the banking industry with the following initiatives:

1. Work closely with clients on complex client problems and leverage your domain knowledge and consulting skills to help them achieve their goals.

2. Conduct analysis to determine best path for solving business problems that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training, and software procurement.

3. Gather facts through research, interviews, and surveys, to analyse the client's business processes, draw conclusions, prepare final reports, and give presentations.

4. Evaluate relative costs, benefits, and obstacles of potential solutions and implement the plans as defined.

5. Conduct business readiness assessment and follow best practices to drive project implementation.

Skills include:

1. Provides solutions to complex business problems for areas(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

2. Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility.

3. Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters.

The Work

1. Help define the value of a transformation, and how to measure and track success.

2. Facilitate design thinking and/or customer journey workshops to support development of a transformation roadmap and/or strategy.

3. Manage across transformation management domains for a workstream (e.g., scope, cost, schedule, etc.).

4. Manage the definition of the practices, processes, toolsets, and operations for one or more transformation domains.

5. Build strong relationships with clients that extend beyond individual projects, including beginning to develop C-suite relationships while serving as a true trusted advisor.

6. Balance understanding client needs and desires with presenting an informed and convincing perspective in the interests of the client’s business.

7. Drive thought leadership, asset development, and intellectual capital efforts, building a following with similar expertise.

8. Identify and advance ideas for new business opportunities.

9. Identify creative and hard-to-find data sources and refine hypothesis through interviews.

10. Develop focused expertise across multiple targeted Transformation Excellence focus areas while maintaining breadth of knowledge basis.

Job Qualifications:

1. With at least at 10+ years relevant experience in management consulting and industry banking with broad experience in core banking strategy, core banking transformations, core banking review and assessment, and/or business development.

2. Relevant background in the space of commercial banking, corporate banking, trade finance, core banking, credit, payments, or digital banking operations experience and expertise, along with corresponding banking systems.

3. Experience leading a team and managing resources.

4. A Bachelor's degree and equivalent.

Bonus Points if:

1. You’ve got an advanced degree or financial industry certification.

2. Banking systems certifications.

3. You’ve got experience in sales and delivering banking projects on time.

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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