Associate Manager - Finance & Risk Management

Overview

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. We were founded in 1999 and are driven by data science, creativity and responsibility. We help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation, with optimism for change and a broad sector and services footprint. We serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries with about 3,000 consultants.

Our Strategy & Management Consulting practice operates across more than 40 sectors and services, guiding projects in strategy, business transformation, and IT & digital strategy. The Financial Institutions focus area provides a comprehensive suite of capabilities to address evolving client needs in a dynamic business environment.

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

Experience in Capital and/or Liquidity Reporting is strongly preferred.

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, and produce complex deliverables
• Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for themselves and their team, identify priorities and workflows for stakeholders
• Coaching teammates in preparing client deliverables using tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio; design key deliverables and support others
• Present complex ideas and decisions to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
• Perform research and business analysis to solve client challenges and present tailored solutions using quantitative and qualitative data
• Manage internal team by promoting teamwork and helping consultants improve
• Demonstrate credibility with client, challenge approaches when needed, and help evolve the client relationship
• Define project framework and organization, manage one or multiple projects, and ensure follow-up
• Provide status reporting on progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and program health
• Lead work streams on complex projects and oversee simple projects
• Maintain program sites as repositories for project information

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
• Maintain a deep understanding of business concepts and key knowledge to master a business domain
• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge or sector and function
• Contribute to development of new solutions in own areas of expertise
• Lead internal knowledge-share activities and ensure knowledge transfer to other consultants
• Collaborate with clients’ leadership to improve processes in banking governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, treasury transformation, stress testing, and internal audit
• Advise clients with strategic recommendations on risk management issues in the financial services sector
• Help clients understand and quantify risk exposures and build risk models
• Help build tools to utilize capital and liquidity resources in line with regulatory expectations
• Focus on risk identification, measurement, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of exposures
• Develop a point of view on global trends and their impact on clients

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities
• Relay information about new business activities to managers and leaders

• Supervise a project team internally and on client assignments
• Embed the firm’s values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university
• 5-7+ years of…