Senior Consultant - Strategy & Business Design

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 000 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Strategy Consultant to manage projects, lead teams, and deliver client solutions in strategy engagements. The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of experience within a tier-one professional services firm, strong client management skills, and the ability to navigate complex challenges. This role offers opportunities to drive growth and enhance industry performance.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of working experience in a client-facing consulting role.
• Experience within a tier-one professional services firm.
• Strong report writing skills and good financial knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Scope projects and lead all aspects of analysis.
• Manage project end-to-end across a range of clients.
• Provide guidance and feedback to team members.

Skills

Client relationship management

Data-driven decision making

Problem-solving

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's qualification in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related

MBA or Masters in relevant field

Job description

Company Description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

About the Division

Innovation, transformation and leadership occur in many ways. At Deloitte Consulting, our ability to help solve clients’ most complex issues is distinct. We deliver strategy and implementation, from a business and technology view, to help lead in the markets where our client's compete.

Our professionals help clients identify and solve their most critical information and technology challenges, including strategy, procurement, design, delivery and assurance of technology solutions.

Our professionals need to have the acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously, balancing long term projects with the urgency of immediate operational demands. We are committed to establishing and empowering the firm by establishing an environment of continuous learning and enriching career opportunities.

Job Description

Discover your future career in Deloitte Consulting’s Strategic Advisory business. Our multidisciplinary team spans across the continent and combines strategic foresight with rigorous analysis to drive growth, manage risks, and enhance industry performance.

We empower our clients to navigate complex challenges and uncover opportunities to create value and competitive advantage while also building organisational trust and resilience for the long run.

We look for the best talent to co-create dynamic Strategy & Business Design that enables strategy-led transformation, we help clients build, transform and protect value, be it financial, economic, social, environmental, or cultural.

Our specialists' harness deep insights on market size, competitive landscape and evolving of the dynamic trends on our continent, responding to the client’s business growth.

Main Purpose of Job

As a Senior Strategy Consultant, you will be responsible for scoping projects, leading all aspects of analysis, including managing project end-to-end, and owning the delivery across a range of clients. With the support and oversight of team members, you will take a leadership role on your projects, overseeing teams to produce client deliverables and coaching team members.

You will have significant and demonstrated experience in facilitation, evidence-based and data-driven approaches, client relationship management skills and business development.

Key to your role is leading your project team(s), providing guidance and feedback to your team members at Consultant(s) and Analyst(s) level.

Roles and responsibilities:

Client Delivery for Strategy Engagements

• Supports the Engagement Manager in delivery of engagement / project, in specific area of competency
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder, cross-functional engagements to present and evaluate these opportunities and explore potential interventions to realise them
• Conceptualise and/or execute effective change management frameworks and processes to ensure commitment from a variety of busy stakeholders
• Execute initiatives efficiently and effectively, whether it be facilitating a strategy session, presenting key findings, modelling a business case, building a dashboard, optimising a process flow or researching global best practice
• Problem-solve in unstructured environments where the diagnosis and solution may not be clear and lateral thinking is required
• Raises issues with manager as identified in area of focus that may affect the quality of delivery or timelines of the engagement
• Identifies opportunities for follow-on work and works with management to win the business
• Assists in development of client presentations / discussion documentation
• Actively builds business relationships that generate leads
• Gathers information to understand broader offerings of Deloitte and seeks opportunities for cross-selling
• Raises solutions to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance / renew service offerings to client
• Under guidance, supports the Engagement team in delivery to client in area of competency
• Builds business relationships with clients/ staff
• Raises ideas to address issues in area of expertise that may enhance / renew service offerings to client

Experience Required

• Experience within a tier-one professional services firm working across Strategy projects with multi-disciplinary teamsof the industry domains of Consumer Business, TMT or FSI
• Advantageous to have some team leadership opportunities in a project engagement
• 5-8 years working experience in a client facing consulting tole
• Soundly skilled in providing vision and strategy for client proposals
• Excellent report writing skills
• Good financial knowledge

Qualifications

• Bachelor's qualification in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or related
• MBA or Masters in the relevant field of study is a definite advantage

Additional Information

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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