EY - GCC Strategy Consultant - Financial Services (3-8 yrs)

Strategy, Design & Innovation Profile Requirements

The candidate will be advising leaders with multi-year transformational agendas, providing structure, planning and input to transformation strategy. Also, the candidate will be driving design and mobilization effort on strategic programs, adding speed, certainty and accuracy to the structure and the delivery of programme benefits.

The consultant will be aligned to a business domain and/or function. The purpose of the role is to manage and execute business efforts across a portfolio of consulting projects or play a key role in global priority programs.

Your key responsibilities:

Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

- Understanding wide array of approaches to information gathering that supports effective problem solving

- Able to navigate through unclear problems and develop structure and definition

- Applying structured thinking in presenting analysis and conclusions

- Taking ownership of solving problems end to end, solving discrete problems systematically and independently

Business Analysis and Design:

- Understanding the end to end process of designing, developing and deploying target operating models

- Articulating the use of basic level business models and operating models and participating in their development

- Domain experience in the area of Global Capability Centre operating model design and deployment is a plus

- Key contributor within an engagement team to test and refine designs with stakeholders

- Performing effective analysis and gap assessment to the required level of granularity based on different stakeholder needs / views

- Analysing the current state, identifying the future state and then validating assumptions with stakeholders to align with business requirements

- Experience working with global stakeholders across Lines of Business working on complex business transformation initiatives is a plus

Innovation and Idea Management:

- Demonstrating confidence in putting forward new ideas, and testing new ideas with colleagues and peers

- Supporting requests to develop thought leadership and methodology collateral

- Identifying opportunities to bring new and efficient ways of working in the project

- Participating in activities to improve design thinking methodology

- Keeping abreast of industry trends to bring innovative ideas to the business solutions / engagements

Delivery at Pace:

- Building and maintaining a reputation for reliable, efficient and effective delivery of business solutions

- Understanding the importance of managing own time and workload

- Immediately highlighting/escalating any off-track activities and bottlenecks slowing the success of delivery

- Identifying the opportunities to accelerate the delivery of the projects and acts on them

- Promoting pace and energy within the team

Resource and Team Management:

- Understanding the resource and scheduling process

- Clearly understanding own role and the role of others

- Endorsing team engagement initiatives, fostering learning and collaboration

- Promoting and demonstrating self-development (e.g. training)

- Providing ongoing visibility of project timings and commitments

Planning and Plan Management:

- Identifying necessary steps for the completion of discrete sets of activities with some appreciation of stakeholder perspective

- Supporting the team and coordinating with stakeholders to facilitate the documentation of scope, quality, cost and effort

- Proactively monitoring plan execution and provides comprehensive updates, taking ownership of any assigned plan

Commerciality:

- Understanding the purpose and priorities of the organization, both now and in the future

- Thinking commercially to identify opportunities to develop business from new/existing internal customers

- Considering impact and dependencies of the group priorities for the project and its deliverables

- Challenging business decisions based on domain knowledge

Leading Self and Others:

- Understanding expectations of their role on each engagement

- Investing time to understand the needs, ambitions and expectations of others

- Training/coaching the use of frameworks to less experienced colleagues

- Listening to developmental feedback from line management and making a conscious effort to address these

Impactful Communication:

- Being open, honest, clear and inclusive in communication

- Actively listening

- Using appropriate communication tools

Major Challenges (The challenges inherent in the role that require a continual test of the role holder's abilities) :

- Managing the complexity involved in consulting projects that span multiple stakeholders

- Maintaining a trusted adviser status and managing scope while maintaining an internal objective view to challenge the business solutions

Role Context (The environment and operating conditions of the role including the extent of guidance and authority) :

- Work relatively independently and have the gravitas and acumen to consult with business management.

- Be self-motivated and driven but able to manage and work in a team whenever required

- Be easily accessible and available to support business stakeholder and consulting leadership needs