Management Consulting - Financial Services Strategy Manager San Francisco, CA

Management Consulting - Financial Services Strategy Manager

• Company

  PwC

• Location

  San Francisco, CA

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  Feb 13, 2013

• eFC Ref no

  1167381

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The Financial Services industry is operating in a challenging environment due to global economic pressure, increasing regulatory demands and capital requirements as well as significant operational and technology changes. Our growing Financial Services Advisory practice provides management, technology and risk consulting services to help major financial institutions around the world respond to their most complex business challenges. The Financial Services Advisory practice is composed of three industry sectors: Asset Management, Banking & Capital Markets and Insurance.

Our Strategy consultants help clients optimize their business. This high performing team helps with strategy growth and development, strategy transformation, analytics and strategic decision making, M&A strategy, and commercial and market due diligence.
Position/Program Requirements
Knowledge Preferred:

Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge of the business strategy consulting field with experience acquired at large, global, complex organizations, and/or successful, fast-growing innovators.

Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge of consulting in core, enterprise-wide business issues from achieving rapid growth to defining a path to cost leadership, while achieving it through an effective management of all strategic risk elements. This includes extensive knowledge in one or more of the following specific focus areas:

Corporate and Business Unit Strategy: Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management;

Innovation Strategy: Market Entry, Business Design, Growth and Social Strategies;

Deals Strategy: All front-end of Merger and Acquisition Strategy, including, but not limited to Inorganic Growth Strategy, Corporate Development/Venturing, Target Identification and Prioritization, and Commercial Due Diligence;

Enterprise Profitability: Cost Leadership Strategy, ROI Improvement, Ruthless Competitor Strategy.

MBA, Masters or Doctorate strongly preferred.

Consulting experience with a top tier strategy consulting firm is preferred.

Skills Preferred:

Demonstrates proven extensive abilities to engage successfully in complex, broad and often ill-defined business issues through deep understanding of both the particular enterprise and industry specific issues.

Demonstrates proven extensive ability to begin with a strong vision and manage a team to a successful conclusion through problem solving global, enterprise-wide strategy issues, with a clear line of sight to implementation activities.

Demonstrates proven extensive ability to deliver impact through effective listening and strong personal leadership that inspires the rest of the team, fosters productive teamwork, help develop and grow team members throughout the course of the engagement.

Demonstrates proven extensive ability and track record of managing and delivering significant business results through delivering strategic insights on the ability of a business to sustain growth and profit and assessing transformational improvements across operational settings while utilizing strategic and creative thinking, individual initiative and the following skills:

-Contributing to the development of a business vision and leading complex projects;

-Identifying and addressing client or management needs: build, maintain, and utilize networks of client or management relationships; manage resource requirements, project workflow and budgets;

-Communicating effectively in written and verbal formats to various audiences with the effective use of compelling visuals;

-Conducting and managing a broad range quantitative and qualitative research, applying the full suite of both primary and secondary analytical approaches from operational benchmarking to strategic voice of the customer.

Minimum Years of Experience Necessary:

5

Minimum Degree(s) and Certification(s) Required:

Bachelors Degree

Additional Requirements
Additional Information
This role will focus on the Insurance, Retail Banking or
Capital Markets Industries