Agile Strategy and Transformation Consultant Financial Services

Company description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.  

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. 

Job description

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
• Location - This role will be based in Victoria, London.
• Application deadline: ASAP

Are you passionate about helping businesses to deliver better outcomes, faster? Do you specialise in driving commercial performance and operational excellence? If you match this description and are passionate about what you do, we would love to hear from you.   

We are a leading consultancy and thought leader in organisational agility. We are looking for experts with the experience to lead clients through an exciting journey to fundamentally transform their business to accelerate the creation of value.  You will bring your expertise in strategy, business design and operating models, agile ways of working, product management, lean, and change management.

You will be part of an inspiring global team that leads the way in driving organisational agility across some of the most exciting brands in financial services across Banking, Payments, Wealth and Asset Management, Pensions, and Insurance.  Our clients span the UK, US, Nordics and increasingly in Australia where we are looking to build our team out. So, with an increasing number of overseas assignments, there is plenty of opportunity to travel. 

We are looking for exceptional strategy and transformation experts to join our growing team. Candidates will have the opportunity to:    

• Bring their passion, purpose, insight and impact to design and embed solutions that drive tangible outcomes within our clients 
• Fundamentally re-wire a client’s business to build a vibrant and dynamic place to work, accelerate the pace of change and delivery of value 
• Focus on changing the skills and behaviours of organisations and their people at scale, enabling clients to ensure they achieve their goals, working in blended teams (doing it “with clients” not “to clients”) 
• Ensure we connect our client’s organisational strategy to the practical work of portfolios and teams to deliver the right change at pace 
• Be part of an exceptionally vibrant agile community, and work with Operational Excellence, Growth Strategy, Digital, People and Change practitioners to grow your broader skillset.  

Qualifications

You will have some, if not all, of the following: 

• Market sector knowledge:  You will know the financial services market sector well and create solutions that are specific to a client’s market context (e.g. banking, insurance, asset management and payments) 
• Transformation Management:  You will be experienced in shaping and leading (or being part of a transformation team) all facets of an agile transformation at scale, such as driving quantitative and qualitative benefits tracking 
• Business Design and Operating Model:  Applying your experience of business design and agile operating models, to build lived structures that work end to end across a business to build compelling solutions  
• Agile ways of working : Experience in helping executives and senior leaders understand, embrace and adopt agile ways of working to inspire their teams, leading from the front to make organisational agility persistent, pervasive and able to continuously evolve   
• Shared Services and Operations : An understanding of how to drive at scale the interlock between engineering, shared services and operations to more effectively and efficiently link strategy to production   
• Executive enablement : Applying your exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to bring senior leaders on a transformation journey and its constituent parts  
• Education : You will have experience in shaping, creating and implementing agile content to educate, upskill and enable organisational agility to come to life and continuously evolve 
• Lean Portfolio Management (LPM):  Applied expertise in LPM practices to help clients overcome challenges as they move from projects to products (e.g. budgeting and funding), defining OKR frameworks, implementing portfolio Kanbans, creating work and tooling taxonomies and demand intake and prioritisation techniques  
• Product Management : Experience in Product Lifecycle Management, showing clients how to move through each stage of a product lifecycle from market analysis, design-thinking workshops, work breakdown techniques  
• Stakeholder Management:  Experience in helping critical enabling functions (e.g. HR, Finance, Risk) understand organisational agility and their role in helping its sustainable adoption 

In order to be successful in this role you will be able to demonstrate typical attributes gained either through your consulting experience or gained through applied industry roles. You will display applied analytic thinking, client centricity, collaboration, communication and stakeholder management.  

Also desirable: 

• Training qualifications such as SAFe (including SPCT accreditation),  LeSS or Scrum@Scale, Certified Kanban Management Professional   
• Experience of introducing new regulatory focuses innovatively and improving quality, for example the consumer duty  
• Experience of leading and running consulting assignment teams  
• Experience in Change Framework design and evolution as an organisation introduces or moves more fully to agile ways of working   

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here .

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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