Managing Consultant - Process Optimisation (Financial Services)

6w1 month ago

PA Consulting

London, GB · Full-time · £120,000 – £180,000

About this role

PA Consulting seeks an accomplished Consulting leader to develop, lead and drive Operational Excellence and Process Improvement capabilities in Financial Services, focusing on Banking and Wealth and Asset Management clients. Leverage deep expertise in Process Design & Optimisation, Operational Excellence Transformation, Process Digitisation and Service Optimisation. Our interdisciplinary teams combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies for enduring results.

Build core capabilities for Operational Excellence and Process Improvement in FS while ensuring a steady pipeline of opportunities to meet revenue and sales targets. Contribute to tailored proposals for client needs and close deals effectively. Develop, lead and oversee implementation programmes with methodologies like Lean Six Sigma and process digitisation using Celonis and AI.

Join over 4,000 strategists, innovators, consultants, digital experts and technologists with deep expertise in financial services. Operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics and Netherlands. Collaborate in teams that create opportunity from complexity as strategies, technologies and innovation collide.

Demonstrate leadership in large project teams, influence senior stakeholders and deliver creative solutions. Achieve high client satisfaction for follow-on projects, extensions and referrals. Progress further, faster in a firm bringing ingenuity to life for positive human futures.

Requirements

Experience of delivering operational improvement across front, middle and back-office service areas
Proven experience of leading assignments and teams
A track record of realising business benefits and outcomes
Experience deploying advanced techniques such as digital technologies, cost improvement, and change management
Ability to demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams
Confidence to work across multiple levels of an organisation and influence senior stakeholders
Aptitude for delivering creative as well as innovative solutions
Expertise in Process Improvement (Lean Six Sigma Green/Black Belt), Operational Optimisation (Lean/Kaizen), Process redesign/governance and digitization (Celonis, AI), Project & Programme Delivery (PMP, Prince2, Agile), Automation (AI, RPA), and Operational Excellence Transformation

Responsibilities

Play a key role in building core capabilities for Operational Excellence and Process Improvement in FS
Ensure sufficient activity to produce a steady ongoing pipeline of opportunities for Operational Excellence services in FS
Contribute to the development of Operational Excellence and Improvement proposals specific to client needs
Close and win deals for Operational Excellence and Improvement services
Develop, lead and oversee Operational Excellence and Improvement implementation programmes
Deliver operational improvement across front, middle and back-office service areas
Lead assignments and teams to realise business benefits and outcomes
Deploy advanced techniques such as digital technologies, cost improvement and change management