Manager, Banking & Payments, Monitor Deloitte, Strategy, SAMA, Consulting
Job Description
Job title: Manager, Banking & Payments, Monitor Deloitte, Strategy, SAMA, Consulting
Company: Deloitte
Job description: Connect to your Industry
Join our market-leading Banking & Payments strategy consulting team, widely recognised by our clients for original insight and deep sector expertise.
Create impactful strategies: our work is highly varied, advising on some of the most ambitious strategic programmes in the sector, including:
- Commercial analysis and business case construction
- Strategy input to digital transformation or delivery programmes
- New product development and market entry analysis
- Customer and business unit strategy
- Strategic operating model design
Work in a growing practice with leading clients: our team has a strong and growing client network across the industry, including the UK’s largest banks, building societies and payments firms.
Learn from world-class experts: As well as being strategy experts, bridging the gap between strategy and execution is at the heart of what we do. We work closely with Deloitte experts in digital, marketing, risk, product and M&A, learning from each other and bringing the best of Deloitte to our clients.
Build a brand: Everyone in our team brings unique skills and experience. We take time to help each other develop a domain of expertise, building what we are known for as individuals and in the market.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
As a Strategy Manager you will be the day-to-day lead on strategy engagements with our clients. You will be highly motivated and skilled in your field and have a passion for addressing the challenges in the industry. While no two projects are the same, you will typically manage a team of analysts or consultants with support from senior colleagues as needed. You’ll play a vital hands-on role in designing the analysis approach, distilling insights and constructing strategic recommendations.
At times this will include being the bridge from strategy into delivery, and we particularly welcome applications from candidates with experience in digital transformations, alongside core strategy skills.
The nature of the work we do includes:
- Working with clients to understand and define strategic choices ahead of key investment decisions
- Traditional evidence-led analysis to identify market development opportunities to support client strategies
- Determining the optimum business or commercial model to effectively deliver client objectives
- Helping our clients configure effectively and develop their ability to deliver operational excellence in specific areas
- Identifying new ways of working that will stimulate innovation and growth, and lead to better decision-making
- Guiding and supporting clients through imagining, defining and delivering their digital journey to enable competitive advantage
The team: The role sits within the Banking & Payments Strategy team, part of Deloitte’s Financial Services Strategy Consulting team. You will learn from a group of experienced strategists and industry from a diverse range of backgrounds. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Monitor Deloitte Strategy community in the UK and globally, with opportunities to learn best practice strategy techniques across industries. Beyond the Strategy team, you will build a network with Banking & Payments experts across Deloitte Consulting, in digital, marketing, M&A, regulatory and operations.
Development: We offer a structured career path and invest in continuous development and learning, which matter greatly to us. Our growth in recent years has been strong and we have ambitious plans for the future: you will find that there is no lack of opportunity for you to develop your career, wherever you may choose to take it.
Responsibilities: As a Strategy Manager your responsibilities will include:
- Independently leading engagements from scoping through delivery by managing engagement teams and working with Deloitte Partners and other internal teams to help clients solve their most significant strategic challenges
- Leading execution of rigorous and insightful analysis to build an evidence base to support strategy development and change
- Mastery of strategy tools and frameworks to solve client problems, and sharing best practice within the team
- Managing and mentoring junior colleagues to ensure successful project delivery
- Working closely with clients and internal stakeholders, taking the lead in developing strong professional relationships and liaising with teams to deliver seamless client experience
- Proactively developing your own skills, seeking feedback, building knowledge, and sharing your insight with colleagues
- Taking a leadership role in the management of the practice and business development with clients
- Mentoring junior colleagues, helping them to build technical as well as soft skills and coaching them to achieve their career aspirations
Connect to your skills and professional experience
We are looking for people who enjoy addressing complex problems in an analytical manner, with a proven record of delivery in a project environment and a strong background in the Banking & Payments sector. We particularly welcome applications from those with experience working closely with digital and technology teams.
Essential:
- Extensive experience of leading strategy development in one of the following environments:
- Management or strategy consultancy
- Corporate strategy development within industry (e.g. traditional and digital retail/commercial banks, building societies, payments firms)
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage teams in a project-based or client-facing environment and managing stakeholder relationships
- Strong understanding of the UK Banking (retail and commercial/SME) and/or Payments landscape, trends, and drivers of change
- Good understanding of how to construct and evidence strategic arguments, structure analysis and ability to understand market challenges and opportunities
- Strong academic track record
- Flexibility to travel
Desirable:
- Postgraduate or professional qualification (e.g. MBA or equivalent)
Connect to your business – Consulting
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors.”
-Sophia, Consulting
Connect to your agile working options
Location: London
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the London team. You’ll have the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You’ll also have access to a number of local collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon.
The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way, by enabling flexibility for our people, and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
