Please review below for a selection of our key vacancies. To apply for any of thes roles or discuss these, or any of our other vacancies further, please contact William Laitinen.
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WEALTH AND ASSET MANAGEMENT - SENIOR ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
LONDON, ZURICH, GENEVA, PARIS, NORDICS and NEW YORK
Our client is seeking exceptionally qualified individuals to join their specialised and experienced team of professionals within their newly diversified Wealth and Asset Management Practice. This is an important appointment where the significance will be on contributing considerably to the development and value of the business.
Their dedicated Wealth and Asset Management (WAM) domain focuses on private banking, asset management, alternatives, family office and retail structured products. Within the last 12 months topics of the Wealth and Asset Management work have included; strategy, customers and distribution, profitability, value and efficiency, M&A and in house manager review.
Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience, academic achievements, and extracurricular responsibilities. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, including the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge, comfort with quantitative techniques, excellent communication and leadership skills and be willing to travel for business.
Location is flexible with positions in Zurich, Geneva, London, Paris, Nordics and New York.
Senior Engagement Manager Responsibilities:
Providing intellectual leadership for project execution, including planning, supervision and execution of analyses for individual projects.
Senior Engagement Manager Qualifications:
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CORPORATE RISK CONSULTING - ENGAGEMENT / SENIOR ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
LONDON
Our client’s Corporate Risk Consulting (CRC) practice helps their clients understand and proactively manage risks across their organization, aiming to both improve earnings performance and manage earnings volatility within acceptable levels. They work with clients to develop and implement practical tools and sustainable processes that enable more informed strategic decisions, improved risk mitigation, and increased transparency. Projects range from comprehensive risk assessments, which are designed to identify risk exposures and risk drivers across the organization to linking risk-adjusted performance metrics (i.e., earnings at risk, value at risk, economic capital) with key strategic decision making processes (i.e., budget planning, large project approval, M&A, business portfolio design).
Senior Engagement Managers typically work on one or two projects at a time, and can expect to be staffed on 5 or 6 projects in a year in various industries and across geographies.
Our client’s risk management specialists come from a range of backgrounds (strategy consulting firms, Big 4 consultancies and risk management advisors, to name a few). Candidates are likely to have experience in the areas of ERM implementation, strategy development, SOX implementation, Financial Risk Management (treasury / commodities), Performance improvement or Risk Framework development. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in the Aviation/Aerospace/ Defence, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals & Chemical, Telecommunications, Energy and Commodity industries.
Responsibilities include:
Qualifications:
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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Our client is seeking exceptionally qualified individuals to join their specialised and experienced team of professionals within their newly diversified Private Equity and Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. This is an important appointment where the significance will be on contributing considerably to the development and value of the business.
Our client’s private equity work focuses on investor, fund and banking clients providing world class idea generation, sourcing, investment analysis, due diligence, decision making, post acquisition and portfolio company value enhancement and exit/portfolio management for Private Equity funds in the F.I.G sector across Europe.
You will be undertaking detailed strategic and operational investigative due diligence analysis of Private Equity fund investments in the sector as mentioned above. Your duties will also include studies of investment strategies, design of business and organizational models, risk management processes and tools and general industry research. Furthermore, your role will entail quantitative analysis of track record and past performance, investment/strategic risk assessment as well as evaluation of the underlying management teams. Finally, your role will extend through to the post transaction management stage, including transaction process support, which is critical to the success of our client’s investment process.
Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience, academic achievements, and extracurricular responsibilities. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, including the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge, comfort with quantitative techniques, excellent communication and leadership skills and be willing to travel for business. Consultants are hired with the prospect of career progression to Directorship. While many staff have post-graduate degrees, an MBA degree is not required for promotion. Compensation package is competitive with other leading strategy consulting firms.
Senior Engagement Manager Responsibilities include:
Qualifications:
Engagement Manager Responsibilities include:
Qualifications include:
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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FINANCE AND RISK CONSULTANT
PARIS (OR LONDON)
Our client is seeking exceptionally qualified candidates for engagement manager positions within their Finance & Risk Practice in Paris. The position is directly responsible for the day-to-day execution of consulting engagements with financial services clients. Responsibilities include overall management of the engagements to deadlines, management of the consultant team, and communication with Directors on engagement status, acting as primary point of contact for client staff, and ensuring the highest level of quality in client deliverables. This position is directly responsible to Directors and the client for successful delivery of work. Due to the structure of client engagements, consulting teams are expected to travel frequently and conduct the majority of their work at the client site.
Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience, academic achievements, and extracurricular responsibilities. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, including the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge, comfort with quantitative techniques, excellent communication and leadership skills and be willing to travel for business. Consultants will be hired with the prospect of career progression to Directorship. While many staff have post-graduate degrees, an MBA degree is not required for promotion. Compensation package is competitive with other leading strategy consulting firms.
The Practice
The Finance & Risk Practice is the largest of our client’s highly specialized practice groups and is the cornerstone of their reputation as the pre-eminent finance and risk management consulting firm to the financial services industry. The Practice provides leading financial institutions with custom solutions for all aspects of risk management as well as its application to financial management.
Position – Qualifications
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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LONDON
Our client's Corporate and Institutional Banking practice include the leading:
Our client is widely recognized as an influential thought-leader in the commercial and institutional banking segment. The practice’s leaders and senior professionals have an exceptional depth of industry experience and several have worked directly in the industry. Drawing on their deep knowledge of clients’ businesses, as well as their own in-depth industry research and analysis, they focus on developing sustainable strategies for their clients to support their businesses in their ongoing evolution.
The Project Team Structure – Roles
A project team usually comprises two directors, a senior engagement manager/junior engagement manager and 1-3 consultants. The non-Director team members typically vary in level of experience, and work on only one project at a time. Your role will develop in accordance with your experience, maturity, and ambition and will not be limited by artificial barriers - a true meritocracy. Initially, you will focus on analysis, such as evaluating internal client data, performing financial analysis and projections, and interviewing participants in the client’s marketplace. As you demonstrate your skill mastery, you will assume broader responsibilities, including management of client relationships, determining the appropriate analyses required to address a client concern, and providing ‘thought leadership’ and creativity.
The Available Position: Job Manager
Responsibilities include:
Qualifications:
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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STRATEGIC IT ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
LONDON
We are seeking exceptionally qualified candidates for senior consultant and engagement management positions within our client’s Strategic IT Practice. Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience, academic achievements, and extracurricular responsibilities. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, including the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge, comfort with quantitative techniques, excellent communication and leadership skills and be willing to travel for business. Consultants will be hired with the prospect of career progression to Directorship. While many staff have post-graduate degrees, an MBA degree is not required for promotion. The compensation package is competitive with other leading strategy consulting firms.
The Position
Successful candidates will act as engagement managers leading client engagements involving the strategic analysis and applications of IT for financial institutions. They will manage cross-functional teams of consultants, ensure the highest quality of work delivery, and coordinate the relationship with client teams. From Day One, the successful candidate will be expected to assume broad responsibilities, including management of client teams, determining the appropriate analyses and approaches to address a client concern, and providing thought leadership and creative insight to client problems. Career advancement for high performers will be rapid.
Experienced Consultant & Engagement Manager – Qualifications:
In addition, the ideal candidate will have a variety of the following skills, with particular expertise in at least one area: IT strategy; IT value economics and real options; IT cost restructuring; IT organizational design or reconfiguration; technology renewal and program management; and/or expertise in specific technologies in the financial industry, such as CRM, risk metrics, or data warehousing.
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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RETAIL AND BUSINESS BANKING - ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
LONDON
Our client’s Retail and Business Banking Practice addresses the needs of financial services providers serving personal, private and small to mid-sized business customers. These providers typically have much in common: widespread distribution; large numbers of individual clients; complex support processes; and intense competitive pressures. Their clients include top universal banks, regional banks, monolines, finance companies, wealth managers, & insurers.
Our client’s consulting approach is distinguished by a combination of industry expertise, strategic orientation, analytical rigor, and implementation experience. It has become the ‘consultant of choice’ for senior executives of a select group of large, well-known financial institutions. They assist their clients with a wide range of issues which have the common thread of increasing institutional value. Beyond business line strategy and corporate development, they have distinguishing expertise in risk management, customer relationship management and business transformation.
Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity, and judgment, as demonstrated by their professional experience, academic achievements, and extracurricular responsibilities. Successful candidates must exhibit intellectual curiosity, including the ability to quickly assimilate knowledge, comfort with quantitative techniques, and excellent communication and leadership skills. Our client hires consultants with the prospect of career progression to Directorship. While many staff have post-graduate degrees, an MBA degree is not required for promotion. Their compensation package is competitive with other leading strategy consulting firms.
The Consultant’s Role
A project team usually comprises two directors, a senior engagement manager/junior engagement manager and 2-4 consultants. The non-Director team members typically vary in level of experience, and work on only one project at a time. A consultant’s first year will typically include work on three or four projects in different practice areas interspersed with specialized training. Your role will develop in accordance with your experience, maturity, and ambition and will not be limited by artificial titles or barriers. It is a true meritocracy in which each consultant is given as much responsibility as he or she can handle. Initially, you will focus on analysis, such as evaluating internal client data, performing financial analysis and projections, and interviewing participants in the client’s marketplace. As you become more experienced, you will assume broader responsibilities, including management of client relationships, determining the appropriate analyses required to address a client concern, and providing ‘thought leadership’ and creativity.
Senior Engagement Manager Responsibilities include:
Qualifications:
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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FINANCIAL SERVICES - CORPORATE STRATEGY CONSULTANT
LONDON - ITALY- PARIS - ZURICH - FRANKFURT OR MUNICH
Exciting opportunity to join one of the world’s leading specialist Financial Services strategy consulting firms.
The Position
This leader in financial services strategy and risk management consulting are seeking exceptionally qualified candidates for experienced Consultant positions in their Corporate Strategy Practice.
Interested individuals should have extraordinary intellectual capability, maturity and judgment, as demonstrated by their academic achievements, professional experience and extracurricular responsibilities. Strong candidates also should exhibit intellectual curiosity and have considerable technical, analytical and quantitative ability. Language fluency and an international outlook are highly desirable. Compensation package is competitive with other leading strategy consulting firms.
The Role
As an experienced consultant, you will have a demonstrated ability to work successfully in a corporate strategy environment. Successful candidates will have a minimum of 3 years proven track record of career progression and achievement, a distinguished academic record, and some history of managing people or other leadership positions, perhaps in university clubs or teams. You will be a self-motivated and results-oriented individual who excels at analysis and critical reasoning. From day one, you will be expected to assume broad responsibilities, including management of client teams, determining the appropriate analyses and approaches to address a client concern, and providing thought leadership and creative insight to client problems. Career advancement for high performers will be rapid.
Functional Skills
The ideal candidate will have a variety of the following skills, with particular expertise in at least one area: group strategy; corporate development and M&A; large-scale transformation and post-merger integration; top-down economic value management; organic growth strategies; external communications; and the management of strategic compensation and human capital.
Qualifications
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable
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We are looking for experienced Operational Risk executives to join our client’s globally renowned risk and strategy practice where you will add your understanding and expertise of the UK/European market to assist in the growth of the practice.
OPERATIONAL RISK - OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION
We have worked with a range of clients on operational risk projects across different industry players (insurance, banking, investment management, niche firms etc.) and within different functions in the institution (group risk, head of business, board reporting etc.). Our differentiating factor is abstracting from the standard ‘tick-the-box’ approaches, and producing senior management MIS which facilitate major operational decisions. Thus, as with other Finance and Risk Management work we conduct, we span the full spectrum of applications from Compliance, through operational and tactical efficiency, to strategic implications and Board level reporting.
Amongst recent engagements for leading financial services institutions we count the following:
We continue to be committed to the development of leading edge solutions for financial services institutions and have together with our clients moved the thinking in several operational risk areas significantly over the last few years and the candidate will join a dynamic environment with plenty of scope for contributing in the continued enhancements of our offerings as well as delivering solutions across the entire spectrum of operational risk management solutions.
The new consultants will focus on the management of Finance and Risk projects, with heavy specialisation in Operational Risk. It is envisaged that they will quickly expand this base to include broad execution support of the franchise, whilst helping to further the intellectual capital of the Firm in the Operational Risk area.
All candidates must exhibit the necessary focus on excellence and consistent track record of over performance that has helped the firm achieve its consistent growth in recent years. In addition they must be able to demonstrate the following:
Salary: Competitive + Bonus
Start Date: Negotiable