Strategy Manager - Banking

Posted:
12/13/2024, 2:31:52 PM

Location(s):
Toronto, Ontario, Canada ⋅ Ontario, Canada

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

We Are:
Accenture Strategy. We empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now, and the unknown through deep industry expertise, analytics, and insights. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously driving the total reinvention of its business. Accenture Strategy enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

You Are:
A Strategy Consulting guru with tons of experience setting growth and transformation agendas within the Banking Industry.  Your expertise includes working with the management team and senior leadership to advise clients on strategies to transform their business operations or business model so they can crush their strategic, financial, and operational goals. As a manager, you’re a natural at building and bringing out the best in teams. You thrive in solving complex problems, thanks to your prodigious analytical skills and structured approach. You have excellent communication and people skills along with a strong desire to work in a fast-paced environment.

The Work:

  • Run delivery of projects to get the lay of the land of clients’ position in the Banking industry to make sure they are positioned for long-term success with practical road maps for carrying out strategy, managing change, and delivering value

  • Lead teams to deliver world-class business, operations, and technology strategy solutions that meet the needs of clients

  • Build relationships with senior leaders at client organizations and partner with them to create strategic solutions that sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner

  • Provide overall guidance on quantitative analysis and research to generate recommendations and insights and drive outcomes

  • Fortify Accenture’s Strategy practice and role as a thought leader by creating content and taking part in professional forums, both internal and external

  • Mentor junior members of the Strategy team

  • Travel Monday – Thursday may be required based on client demand. Accenture promotes a client-centric, flexible work environment

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Here’s What You Need:

  • Minimum 5 years of Strategy consulting experience from a Tier 1 consulting firm, or

  • Minimum 4 years of experience working with Banking, Capital Markets, and Payment institutions at the intersection of Business and Technology (for example: Operating Models, digital disruption)

  • Practical knowledge and understanding of Analytics and Digital Technologies

  • Understanding of what is takes for a strategy to be executed

  • High-level understanding on how ecosystems fit into the digital world, and how digital technology is changing business 

  • Well-networked with client executives in the Canadian Corporate landscape

  • Experience running large complex transformative programs

  • Excellent leadership and management skills to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment

  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills 

  • Ability to prioritize the issues and present solutions to Senior Leaders

  • Ability to hold conversations with C-suite level clients

Bonus Points if:

  • You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree from a top business school

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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Accenture

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Headquarter Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1989

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Grant

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