Financial Services

Our clients, including Niche Financial Services firms, the leading Management Consultancies and Professional Services firms, offer an extensive range of consulting to financial institutions to bring about strategic transformation and change.

Despite some concerns in the financial markets, 2008 is still seeing a demand for high quality Banking and Insurance professionals and experienced consultants. This demand stretches across the key capabilities (Strategy, Delivery, Project Management, Risk and Process Improvement).

Our clients are keen to see, not only experienced Financial Services Consultants, but also top professionals from industry that can bring deep sector knowledge and understanding with them into consulting.

So, whether you are an experienced consultant looking for your next challenge, a Financial Services industry professional looking to make your first move into consulting, or to return to consulting, now might be a good time for you to look at what opportunities are currently available.

Briefly, you will need to have:

• Good industry, products, services and processes knowledge
• Experience of applying one or more of the above specialisms
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Academic background with rapid career progression

There are fantastic opportunities for high achieving and experienced candidates who are keen to either join, or further their career within, blue chip consulting.

Procurement and Supply Chain

Procurement and Supply Chain is about helping organisations to achieve their strategic and corporate vision and objectives at both a company-wide and operational level throughout their end-to-end supply chain. It remains one of the areas of increasing growth and profile within consultancy.

We work with the largest global consultancies and advisory firms within this space and demand has been growing rapidly for high calibre candidates with proven experience of identifying and implementing innovative ways of working within Procurement. There are opportunities at Consultant, Senior Consultant and Manager level.

Hot skills & experience:

• Strategic sourcing
• eProcurement
• Category management
• Supplier management and evaluation
• Private and/or public experience (key industries are Retail/FMCG and Government)
• Programme and project management skills within procurement transformation
• Direct and indirect expenditure

The work is varied and is complimented by the professional development required to stretch and grow your skills. The career pathways, opportunity to work with unrivalled peer groups and some of the UK’s and the world’s largest businesses are superb.

Strategy

Strategy consulting professionals work with corporate executives, developing innovative strategic operational and transformational solutions to maximise shareholder value.

A strategist must be able to carry out complex strategic analyses, such as a company’s current business situation, market and competitor trends, translating this insight to help identify growth opportunities and develop implementable solutions.

Not only does this require excellent analytical and commercial skills, but also the ability to be able to converse credibly and persuasively with senior corporate executives. Therefore, experience of having worked in strategic roles prior to consulting is generally essential, as is an excellent academic background.