Sr. Associate – Consulting Analyst

Sr. Associate – Consulting Analyst

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience: Business, Economics, Accounting, Statistics or equivalent field. – Required.
• 9+ Years Experience in Change Management with significant direct business analysis experience in technology or financial services. – Required.
• 9+ Years Experience managing project teams executing cross functional projects with technology -based teams – Required.
• 2+ Years in a Management Consulting role – Required.
• Outstanding written and oral communications.
• Ability to understand and articulate the “big picture” to executive and leadership teams, while maintaining exceptional attention to execution details.
• Excellent organizational skills, highly analytical, and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Capacity for advanced problem solving and critical thinking.
• Experience in driving stakeholder relationships, to ensure alignment across broad cross-functional teams.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, experience with MS Project or equivalent an advantage.
• Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Excel, including but not limited to data transformation, functions/expressions, VBA, Macros.
• Ability to effectively facilitate complex meetings with executives and leadership business partners across multiple functions in an organization.
• Structure and package your work into compelling presentations and communications that influence various audiences including executives.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, investigative-thinking, prioritization, and program management skills.
• Self-directed and able to flourish in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as an ‘owner’ and a cross-functional subject matter expert that will help guide multiple functional groups as we continue to launch our digital bank throughout our physical network.
• Define, prioritize, structure and execute strategic and operational initiatives which includes develop work plans, gather and synthesize data, lead analyses and develop and implement recommendations.
• Drive operating excellence for the organization, including optimizing resource allocation, measuring/reporting progress against key objectives and manage business updates/quarterly reviews.
• Assess, develop, and execute a plan to implement a business transformation solution.
• Analyze business processes to identify potential issues and uncover/prioritize levers for improvement, influence executive stakeholders to implement suggested improvements.
• Leads teams to conduct analysis of client business processes and functional requirements; Oversee preparation of appropriate documentation to communicate and validate the findings.
• Provides leadership and direction to team members to ensure that the business requirements are appropriately defined and that an enhancement or project is warranted.
• Leads cross-functional task forces to identify and document functional requirements, work flow, information sources and distribution paths, and system specifications.
• Reviews the development of business cases to ensure the cost, service, and benefit dimensions of proposed large, complex projects are appropriately reflected.
• Analyzes the strategic profile of the organization and its environment, advising senior management on suitable policies, and the effects of policy decisions.
• Manages complex, often global, stakeholder alignment and issue resolution using sophisticated executive influence skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Established work history or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.