Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve USD 420 million in turnover for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Why join the Sia Village?

Excellence / Entrepreneurship / Innovation / Teamwork / Care & Support / Employee Wellbeing

These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.

Your experience at Sia Partners will be enriched by a(n):

• Entrepreneurial journey
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives
• Annual seminar, an in-person value-add experience, that allows you to network with colleagues throughout North America

Job Description

Our talented consultants enable our Financial Services Industry (FSI) Business Unit to deliver a myriad of business transformation solutions to our clients. The FSI Business Unit has led and managed projects for top-tier, global clients ranging from strategy, target operating model design, regulatory governance and remediation to technology transformation, program & project management, and business analysis. We have experience providing these solutions to clients within their Sales & Trading, Risk Management, Finance, Treasury, and Operations & Technology functions.

Our Sia Village makes an immediate impact for our firm and clients. At all levels and varying scales, our consultants execute upon client delivery, business development, business expertise, team collaboration and leadership. We support your professional development and career growth through on-the-job training, internal trainings & learning pathways, in addition to opportunities to ideate, build, promote and deploy best-in-class and convincing IP/Solutions that bring a distinctive added value to our customers. Through our firm's career pathways and collaborative global teams, you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop as a consulting professional.

Responsibilities

Consulting Skills

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables
• Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both them and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties
• Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coaches teammates in preparing client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables
• Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
• Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data
• Manages internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve
• Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship
• Defines the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
• Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects
• Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information

Business Expertise Skills

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
• Maintains a deep understanding of business concepts, issues and challenges and key knowledge to master a business expertise
• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain
• Contribute to the development of new solutions in own areas of expertise
• Takes a leading role within internal firm knowledge-share activities and organizations, ensuring complete knowledge and competency transfer to other consultants
• Design and implement business changes that drive transformation, functionality, and performance
• Partner with our clients to help them develop high performance solutions to advance their operational performance industry standing

Business Development Skills

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities
• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders

People Management Skills

• Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment
• Embody the firm's values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into their management style

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university is required
• 5-7+ years of recent client facing management consulting experience managing or creating project deliverables and managing a delivery team
• 5+ years relevant experience managing or creating project deliverables in a consulting environment, with broad experience in any of the following:
  • Financial Risk Management
  • Financial Planning & Analysis, Budgeting & Forecasting (experience in driver-based planning, zero-based budgeting, etc.)
  • Financial & Regulatory Reporting
  • Procurements (Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, etc.)
  • Model Risk
  • ERP / EPM Implementation
  • Regulatory Compliance (CCAR, BASEL, FRTB, etc.)
  • Treasury & Capital Management
  • Legal Entity Management
  • Expense & Profitability Management
  • Financial Controls, Processes and Procedures
• Experienced in delivery of a wide range of Financial Services solutions, maintains deep understanding of the industry and its challenges.
• You possess strong client relationship development and client management skills
• Excellent communication (written and oral) accompanied by strong interpersonal skills
• Solid organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to know when to escalate and when not to.
• Eagerness to be involved with internal initiatives and interest in guiding and leading.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
• Flexibility in approach and a willingness to adapt quickly and take initiative when working in unstructured environments with limited supervision

Bonus points if you possess any of the following:

• Master's level degree from an accredited college/university or other additional certifications warmly welcomed
• Experience with ERP and EPM tools (NetSuite Anaplan, Kyriba, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP, etc.)
• Experience using Robotics Process Automation (RPA) tools (Automation Anywhere, Pegasystems, RedHat, BluePrism, UiPath, etc.)
• Experience using Power BI and preferably other visualization tools (Tableau, etc.) to enable dynamic dashboarding
• Experience and knowledge of Project Management principles and methodologies
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• A certification in one of the following strongly preferred: CPA, CFA, Finance Risk Manager (FRM), Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Series or other additional related certifications warmly welcomed

Additional Information

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual Salary + Annual Discretionary Bonus
• Personal Sales Bonus
• Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
• Generous vacation/sick
• Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents regardless of gender
• Building Healthy Families Program
• 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
• 401(k) Plan - 4% matching on day 1
• College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan
• Cell phone stipend
• Commuter Benefits
• Gym Reimbursement through firm medical plan

Compensation for this role is between $126,000 and $132,000.

Hybrid Workplace Guidelines

Sia Partners maintains its hybrid workplace arrangements and provides a flexible workplace environment that is driven by client and business/market needs. At this time, in person requirements are issued by departments (Business Unit/Business Line) and vary by office location. Consultants are expected to have the ability to be flexible with work location depending on business needs and live within a reasonable distance to the office.

Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).

Our Commitment To Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners' DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We're confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.

Our global network, DEIB[redacted] Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:

• Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
• LGBTQ+
• Race & Ethnicity
• Working Parents
• Disabilities

To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.