Client Background and Role Summary:

Our client, a global professional services Organisation is looking for Partners / Directors to provide strategy consulting services in the marketplace. They work with multi-disciplinary  teams  from  around  the  world  to  deliver  a  global  perspective, and aligned   to   key   industry   groups   including asset   management,   banking   and   capital markets, insurance and private   equity,   they also   provide   integrated   advisory, assurance, tax, and transaction services. The Financial Services practice provides a broad range of integrated advisory services in the banking and capital markets, insurance, private wealth and asset management sectors and assist clients in defining their functional strategies and operating models. They consult with clients across Asia-Pacific to ensure they anticipate and respond to rapidly changing consumer needs, transform efficiency and effectiveness for sustainable competitive advantage, effectively respond to regulatory changes, and enhance people capability and culture.

The Consulting team is known for its capability in the following areas:

• Productivity improvement: Improving operations through workforce planning, KPI alignment and process improvement through reengineering and automation.
• Operational transformation: Helping their clients drive their front office strategies into their middle and back office operations to ensure a seamless end to end client experience.
• Simplification: Reducing business model complexity to increase efficiency and agility, delivering benefits for customers, employees and shareholders.
• Cost optimization: Reducing cost through organizational change, offshoring, outsourcing, and shared service creation/evolution.

Main Responsibilities:

The Financial Services business domain is rapidly evolving, due to regulatory and accounting changes and must demonstrate real added value to their business. The Partner/Director will use his/her experience and knowledge to help deliver greater insight and utilize technology to deliver functional efficiencies as well as transforming the role of business in their clients’ businesses. He/She will be developing innovative, sustainable ways to improve the management of people, processes and systems, working alongside other professionals in high-performing teams.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and more than 10 years of related work experience in the financial services industry; preferably with 8-10 years in a business consulting role.
• Deep understanding of Financial Services businesses and technologies (e.g., business models, channels, typical structure, industry terms and issues) with experience in developing strategies, product roadmaps, digital initiatives, new markets and transformation agenda.
• Knowledge and understanding of regulatory and accounting changes (e.g. BASEL, IFRS 9, IFRS 17, RBC2) impacting the Financial Services industry.
• Strong experience in project / program delivery lifecycle (e.g., requirements, analysis, design, build, test, deploy).
• Experience in financial modelling, FS KPI’s, market trends, access to data and key global trends and leading views.
• Experience in project management and methods (e.g., steering committee communications; risk and issues register; status reporting; financials, resource and schedule tracking).
• Experience in presales and sales activities, generating business through a network of contacts.
• Ability to translate strategy and market data into business case.
• Able to effectively engage with C suite.
• Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry.
• Effective communicator, confident team player that collaborates with people from various teams.
• Business analyst and consulting skillsets with experience in to achieve business outcomes.

If you are interested, kindly email your updated resume to Wai Ling at wailing.goh@mindmerge.com.my or click “Apply Now”. Regretfully, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you!