Global Consulting Lead

January 12, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Global Consulting Lead

Company: Thought Machine

Job description: Description

Thought Machine’s mission is bold – to properly and permanently rid the world’s banks of legacy technology. To achieve this, we have developed the foundations of modern banking and built core and payments technology which runs natively in the cloud. What we are attempting is hard and means we need great people working together to build great technology.

We have grown rapidly in the past few years – growing our team to more than 550 individuals across offices in London, New York, Singapore and Sydney. We have raised more than $500m in funding and are now valued at $2.7bn. Our investors include Molten Ventures, Eurazeo, Intesa Sanpaolo, Temasek, Nyca Partners, JPMorgan Chase, Standard Chartered, and more.

We have created a culture enabling our team to produce the best work in the industry, ensuring we have fun along the way. We’re regularly cited as having a fantastic workplace culture and have been recognised by Sifted magazine as having one of the highest Glassdoor ratings for a UK fintech company and the most generous employee share package in the industry. We’ve been named AltFi’s B2B Fintech of the Year, placed in the FinTech50, and named one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies by the Financial Times in 2023.

We want to establish and build our Consulting practice across our major EMEA, APAC and AMER hubs. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting up, leading & driving the direction and outcomes of the consulting practice, aligned with the company’s strategic roadmap.

As the Global Consulting Lead, you will regularly engage with diverse stakeholder groups, including executives of large enterprises, fintech founders and a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team. A successful Consulting Lead utilises their relationship management skills and technical credibility to communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation and become a trusted advisor to our clients.

The consulting lead is responsible for creating a set of offerings that aim at getting our clients off their legacy core banking stacks as easily, quickly, safely and in the most cost-effective way as possible. The consultancy team will deliver the maximum amount of business value and act as partners in our clients’ transformation journeys.

Duties

Build a global Consulting Practice across our major hubs: London, New York and Singapore and lead teams globally across architecture, infrastructure and business consulting

Shape and drive the vision and strategy for the newly shaped team in line with the Thought Machine strategy

Launch a consulting service and develop propositions to help clients accelerate their core modernisation journey

Advise senior stakeholders on financial architecture, product and migration strategies that meet their business requirements

Work closely with all divisions within Thought Machine including Product Management, Engineering, Delivery and Client Success Management to enable fast and frictionless deliveries and transformation programmes

Grow and mentor the existing team and establish key requirements for new team roles and members

Requirements

Requirements

Essential

Effectively selling and delivering outcome-based professional services in enterprise organisations

Leading large multi-stream transformation projects end to end

Passionate and knowledgeable about next-generation cloud technology

A demonstrated history of building credibility and relationships with senior stakeholders

Proven track record of scaling a professional services function

Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to align on strategy, inspire, and execute

Experience in mapping business pain to technology solutions

Previous strategy consulting experience from either a strategy consulting firm or the strategy or business development function of a financial services or fintech company

Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements

Proactive and consistent engagement with multi-disciplined teams

Passion, dedication, and commitment

Desirable

Proven ability to build a professional services function from the ground up

Deep knowledge of the banking/fin-tech industry, products and services

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salary
  • Pension plan (match up to 7%)
  • Life insurance – three times annual salary
  • Competitive maternity (6 months fully paid) and paternity leave (4 week fully paid)
  • Shared parental leave (matched to our maternity leave for the same point in time)
  • 25 days holiday and bank holidays
  • Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
  • Health cash plan (including dental and optical)
  • Flexible working hours
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Electric car scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Access to outstanding learning materials and courses
  • Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
  • All the latest tech you need
  • Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
  • Huge range of healthy (and not-so-healthy) snacks, smoothies and drinks
  • A talented and experienced team as your colleagues
  • An environment where we encourage learning and progress
  • Two charity days a year
  • Weekly food pop up

Thought Machine are committed to making a measurable positive impact on people’s everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description.

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Location: London

Job date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:37:24 GMT

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