Senior Consultant (Financial Industry)

Our client is a boutique consulting firm of top-notch Financial Services technology professionals.They have expert knowledge in the Capital Markets, Wealth & Investment Management, and Retail Banking sectors, offering their clients a winning combination of business and technical expertise.Their hands-on approach combines the rigor of business-driven frameworks and methodologies with the flexibility of a senior team, giving clients a superior level of customization.They have engaged ROSS (www.getROSS.com) to search for a Senior Consultant (Financial Services).

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The Senior Consultant (Financial Industry) will be responsible for either leading or being a senior member of a project team, facilitating JAD sessions/ requirements gathering.This includes understanding business processes, managing requests for improvement to applications or processes, and documenting requirements for solution to the business needs.

You Will:

• Execute consulting engagements, such as:
  • Conducting planning initiatives to define the target IT architecture (applications, data bases, technologies) to support business objectives.
  • Articulating and evaluating trade-offs among alternative approaches for meeting business objectives and recommending a specific course of action.
  • Defining transition strategies and release plans, and scoping delivery projects against the target architecture.
  • Acting as an advisor to system delivery projects to ensure alignment with the target architecture and long term business objectives.
  • Working with business area and IT subject matter experts to develop requirements for new/enhanced system solutions.
  • Organizing and conducting RFI/RFP processes to identify and assess package applications and solutions.
  • Preparing and delivering management-level presentations to convey the key results from our client’s engagements.
  • Guide and mentor more junior resources in the above.
  • Assist with the preparation of proposals for new engagements
• Contribute to the ongoing growth of our client’s consulting business by representing our client at industry conferences and enhancing/extending our client’s intellectual property (e.g., evaluative frameworks, industry business models, whitepapers).

You Have:

• Degree in Science, Math or Engineering-related principles or a Degree in Business with strong experience in the areas outlined below.
• 10 years experience within the Financial Industry, Capital Markets, and/or Wealth/Investment Management enterprises and familiarity with the types of systems used within these types of businesses.
• 10 years experience with business analysis, business system analysis or IT.
• Prior experience working within a consulting environment is an asset.
• Experience applying structured approaches for business and systems analysis.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills,
• Ability to work comfortably at varying levels of abstraction and uncertainty.
• Bias towards detail oriented, rigorous approach to problem solving.
• Background in logical level data and/or process modeling.
• Familiarity with typical considerations/issues associated with enterprise architecture planning, data management, and system integration.
• Sound understanding of systems development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of capital markets and/or wealth management business areas and the types of systems used to support them.
• Highly organized with the ability to organize the work of others.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, diplomatic and professional, and able to quickly establish effective working relationships with new people.
• Service oriented team player.
• Confident and enthusiastic attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain trust with clients.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to adapt “style” to the client environment.
• Independent thinker and problem solver with the ability to maintain an objective point of view and apply sound judgment under pressure of time with limited information.
• Ability to manage issues, changes and problems including the ability to ascertain and communicate what is important to do, delegate or drop.

Travel:

The head office is located in Toronto and there will be additional travel to other Canadian cities as required (usually day travel).

Competencies:

• Organizational Awareness
• Customer Empathy and Focus
• Tenacity and Resilience
• Passion for Excellence and Integrity

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