Strategy – Financial Services

The nature of our work

The nature of our work varies greatly, but chances are your engagement will involve some of the following over time: corporate strategy; customer, product and channel strategy; market entry/growth; new business development; portfolio analysis and investment decisions; financial modelling to quantify a strategy or investment; implications of business strategy for a client's business model, their operations or the supporting technology; cost and activity analysis; due diligence and deal advisory work.

The names of our clients would come as no surprise to you: they are the leading players in their sector across retail banking, building societies, payments, investment banking, exchanges, and insurance.

Our strategy team of over 150 professionals is part of a consulting practice that employs over 2,200 staff in the UK. Our overall consulting revenues were over £400m in the year ending May 2010. This performance is a reflection of our client list and the nature of the work we do. The strategy practice plays a unique and critical role in this business and our client proposition, and we are continuing to invest in growing the breadth and depth of our strategy team as a key part of Deloitte's long term plans for consulting.

Financial services is our strongest sector in the UK, and represented over £130 million in consulting revenues last financial year, making it one of the largest financial services consulting firms in the UK.

 

What you will be doing

As part of Deloitte's strategy consulting team, you will work closely with outstanding, experienced business intellects, both inside Deloitte and on the client side. Our financial services clients are led by highly professional, energetic and forward-looking management teams, and represent the leading firms across capital markets, retail banking, payments and insurance.

The analytical thinking and understanding of real-world strategy application that you will develop in your engagements will be central to your own personal development; the industry contacts you will make, and the experience of working with the wider Deloitte network across all of our competences and lines of business - within Consulting and across the firm - will prove invaluable to your future career, at Deloitte or anywhere else. Finally, new joiners value the warmth and collaborative nature of our working culture.

While most of our work is focussed on addressing specific strategic issues for senior management, we always seek to serve our clients holistically.  Often this means bringing in expertise to investigate adjacent issues that are not always apparent at first sight. Indeed, sometimes our client asks us to carry out work that spans a range of business issues holistically - in breadth, depth and across time from issue identification through implementation.

Our strategy team has a unique place in these wider projects of keeping all eyes on the final objectives and the reasons for taking a certain course of action; such projects are often the true test of the analysis and intellectual work leading up to a critical business decision.  This makes the Strategy practice a key element of the success of our firm.

Bringing together like-minded professionals - from areas as diverse as strategy, operations, technology, risk, corporate finance, tax, regulation or human capital - in order to deliver an unmatchable client service capability is what we refer to as "One Deloitte".

What Deloitte could mean for you

As an experienced hire, you would join Deloitte in a position that reflects the balance of your sector knowledge, professional track record and current or previous consulting skills. More senior hires will also be expected to have experience in managing teams to address strategy and business issues in an analytical and focussed manner, often working to challenging deadlines.

We would look to you, as a high quality professional joining our team, to share your own experience and capabilities with us, whatever your educational background or length of work experience. In return, you will learn from us and expand your knowledge base and skill set as you tackle a wide range of strategic and business challenges. While the Deloitte brand stands for much more, our team competes successfully against all of the leading strategy consulting firms on a client by client, and project by project basis.

We offer a structured career path and invest in continuous development and learning, which matter greatly to us. Our growth over the last decade has been very 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 choose to take it.

We are seeking high quality professionals with experience appropriate for two different roles; the following outline the minimum selection criteria for each role:

Manager/Senior Manager (Engagement Manager):

November 7, 2012 • Posted in: General

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