Consultant, Delivery PMO – Investment Management & Wealth, Operations Industry & Domain Solutio[...]

Deloitte’s Investment Management & Wealth Operations and Domain Solutions (IM&W ODS) team offers end-to-end transformation services to clients in the Investment Management & Wealth sector. We combine deep knowledge of the industry and its challenges with technology and vendor platform capability, operations expertise and delivery excellence in order to support our clients through the full transformation lifecycle; centered around the core of their business and enabled by technology.

As a Delivery Consultant, you will be responsible for supporting a team of IM&W specialists in delivering our most challenging projects. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring project success and driving business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal teams and clients to establish technology strategy and implementation roadmaps.
• Support clients throughout the whole project lifecycle activities across discovery, data analysis, solution design and build, end-to-end testing, integrations and change and go-live.
• Support your team in addressing potential pitfalls throughout the project lifecycle, implementing preventive measures and solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
• Liaise with vendor partners to facilitate communication and ensure projects stay aligned with client objectives.
• Provide clear visibility of progress made to clients through MI/reporting.
• Support addressing one or more implementation challenges by collaborating with stakeholders to ensure thorough assessment and resolution.
• Work within diverse teams to deliver measurable business outcomes to quality and timescales.
• Build effective client relationships with peer-level stakeholders across all business and technical domains including IT, Operations and Risk.
• Support the definition and implementation of accelerators and standards and promoting adherence to these standards within internal and external programmes and projects.

Qualifications:

• Strong consulting experience, preferably in the wealth management, pensions and/or insurance domains.
• Good understanding of vendor management best practices and the ability to endure complex vendor landscapes.
• Experience in supporting complex delivery programmes and transformation projects.
• Been a key part of wealth platform transformation projects and demonstrated ability to support in a team of technology and business advisors through all phases of the technology life cycle, including requirements definition, architecture, design, development, implementation, migration, and testing.
• Supported delivery teams to successful project outcomes by managing and monitoring progress, mitigating risks, communicating effectively with stakeholders, and adapting to changing circumstances.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to communicate complex information clearly and build relationships with clients.
• Ensure delivery standards are followed and deviations from any defined standards are properly addressed and communicated.
• Experience in delivering through various ways of working, including waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with modern software delivery tooling, e.g. JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Appreciation of emerging technology and trends in wealth management.
• Industry certifications such as PMP, Agile, Scrum Master, Prince2 among others are non-essential but desirable.

Our hybrid working policy:

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy.

Connect to your return to work opportunity:

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break? For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more.

Our commitment to you:

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

Connect to your next step:

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see.