Senior Manager - Wealth & Asset Management, Business Transformation | London, UK

EY; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Manager - Wealth & Asset Management, Business Transformation

Senior Manager

Wealth & Asset Management

Do you want to drive and transform the UK and European top Asset and Wealth managers?

The opportunity

This role offers the opportunity to transform asset managers, in response to the industry inflection point. We are looking for energised, motivated leaders with experience helping asset managers to transform the front, middle and back office of our clients. Working closely with our clients in large organisations; we understand what is really important, offering points of view and advice, supporting them to make change decisions, navigating the implementation of these and bringing teams along with us.

Our insights into industry good practice and how the asset and wealth management industries are evolving mean that we are the heart of strategic changes with our clients across:

• Digital transformation
• Customer experience
• Growth and scalability, including into new clients, products and distribution channels
• Strategic cost transformation and operational efficiency
• Transforming to address market opportunities in Alternatives and ESG

Our engagements span from strategic assessments, health checks, target operating model designs, system/vendor selections and implementation of these initiatives.

Your key responsibilities

As a valued leader you will be:

• Leading the delivery of a range of client assignments, often managing diverse, multi-disciplined EY project teams or workstreams
• Driving the build of EY solutions and methods
• Identifying opportunities for new business and owning the submission of client proposals for support
• Developing strong trusted advisor relationships with our clients
• Developing thought leadership
• Viewed as a team leader across EY practice and people development through activities such as recruitment, mentoring and counsellor programmes

Skills and attributes for success

• Bring Asset Management industry knowledge and experience to the client which they may not have access to internally.
• Proven delivery leadership and people leadership roles in Asset Managers
• Team player with exceptional interpersonal skills who can build rapport with the client and prove credibility
• Highly flexible with a willingness to 'get their hands dirty' as well as strategic thinking and leadership
• A structured approach to critical problem solving
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
• The ability to learn new subject matter rapidly
• Motivated and shows willingness to move career forward quickly through a variety of client interactions and assignments that will push and challenge you on a daily basis

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A successful track record leading project work in Asset or Investment Management industry, gained through experience working at an Asset Manager, a top tier consultancy (Big 4, IBM, Accenture, or strategy firm), a specialist financial services consultancy, or an Asset Management technology or service provider
• Experience of leading sales collateral such as proposal responses
• Strong business writing, presentations and stakeholder management skills
• People coaching and mentoring experience
• Extensive experience of project and programme delivery.
• Deep understanding of current market trends in the Wealth & Asset Management industry and subject matter expertise in Asset Management.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Industry recognised business, finance, IT or project management qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE 2, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, BPR, CIMA or CFA
• A good understanding of one or more of the following: Buy-Side front and middle office, Operations, product development, new fund set up, client service transformation, outsourcing, process excellence
• A good understanding of the end-to-end process flows and functional areas of Asset Management participants

What we look for

As a valued member of the team and leader, we're looking for applicants that are keen, dynamic and flexible - who enjoy a variety of challenges and who offer different experiences and diverse insights.