Management Consultant – Asset Management
Location: London
Career Level: Consultant (CL9)
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
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As a team:
In the UK, Accenture works with many of the leading firms in the asset management sector. Fast-changing regulation, changing direct and institutional investor expectations, and technology innovation are trends that are having a significant impact on the business and operation models of these firms.Accenture’s unique position, at the intersection of business and technology, means that more and more investment managers are turning to us for help with their most important business and technology investments.
As a consultant within Accenture’s Asset Management practice, there will never be a typical day and that’s why people love it here.
Here are just a few typical responsibilities:
- Deliver successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and create lasting value in disciplines such as:
- Defining and Implementing C-Suite strategic agendas
- Emerging products and services (e.g. ESG, GenAI, blockchain)
- Organisational re-design and operating model transformation
- Analytics and big data
- Core systems transformation
- Cost efficiency
- Enterprise agility
- Solve complex, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and rigorous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little management oversight
- Drive a rigorous and structured approach to solving business problems
- Build trusted relationships with client and Accenture teams in a dynamic and challenging environment
- Support building out Accenture’s thought leadership
- Support the development of Accenture’s Asset Management practice through people development and mentoring of more junior team members
- Drive, identify and support business development and sales, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of Accenture to our clients
- Take accountability for developing offerings within the UK Asset Management practice. Play a key role in driving the growth agenda for clients - identifying emerging trends in customers and the market and driving sales as a result
- Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative and action-oriented information, insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant strategy topic and drive improved market presence in external forums
- Develop and manage within high performing multidisciplinary consulting teams, leading by example, actively mentoring others and contributing to performance management and recruitment activities
- Prioritise diversity and inclusion across teams and champion change that brings added value to the business.