Consulting - Senior Consultant - Enterprise Technology & Performance

  • Full-time
  • Service Line: Consulting

Company Description

Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has approximately 456,800 professionals all committed to becoming the standard of excellence of professional services firms.

Deloitte’s professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities, and enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging experiences, and enriching career opportunities. All our professionals are united by our shared values, a set of core principles that guide our collective behavior. They set the expectations we have for one another and define how we, as stewards of Deloitte, should behave. They provide common ground to unite us across cultures and geographies. And, importantly, they help us to earn the trust and respect of our key stakeholders. Our shared values are lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises, and the public sector; with offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and in the process of expanding our operations by re-opening an office in Ethiopia.  

A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Kenya and within the East Africa market.

Deloitte East Africa currently has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to join our Consulting department as a Senior Consultant. This position will be based in our Dar es Salaam office in Tanzania.

About the department

Deloitte’s Consulting is about making positive change happen. If you’re ready to innovate and transform, Deloitte can help you imagine, deliver, and run your future. Consulting helps guide clients to the best possible business decisions. Whether they’re facing a specific problem or grasping new opportunities, from technology innovations to operational transformation. You’ll help them shape the ideas, strategies and actions they need to succeed, now and for an ever-more-digital future. You’ll work collaboratively on every project. And have opportunities to work with all kinds of organizations, from start-ups to government departments to major international brands. Developing a wide set of skills and knowledge, your career will be as fascinating and rewarding as it is impactful.

About Enterprise Technology & Performance (ET&P)

Deloitte is an industry leader in our clients systems enabled transformations. We recognize that the backbone enabling our clients highest aspirations is driven by enterprise technology. From Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations to cloud consulting, and ongoing managed services we offer a full scope of services and solutions. We want talent who is ready to innovate and empower our clients to leap frog forward in their technical capabilities. Building your career at Deloitte offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology to deliver next-Gen solutions. We embrace the tech pioneer mindset and always enable our talent to keep their skills evolving at the speed at which the technology marketplace is evolving.

What impact will you make?

At Deloitte we have a clear purpose, to make an impact that matters to our clients, our colleagues and our communities while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. From professional development to leadership opportunities and career advancement, we empower our people to be their very best - because that’s how you make an impact.

Job Description

  • Provide business analysis support to Engagement Manager on technology advisory projects, including high quality research, analysis and report writing;

  • Support clients in providing technical advisory support for technology strategy & architecture and systems integration projects;

  • Provide project coordination support to Engagement Managers as part of project management;

  • Demonstrate ownership and results management of deliverables;

  • Ensures that client issues are identified and addressed appropriately in accordance with Deloitte policies while leveraging on firm resources; 

  • Anticipates client needs and keeps in touch with senior client management to address them without compromising the interests and integrity of Deloitte;

  • Provides business thought leadership in technology services;

  • Develops new and innovative approaches to analyzing raw data to help draw meaningful conclusions;

  • Takes a lead role in coaching and providing performance feedback to the team and inspires others to do the same;

  • Fosters an environment of continuous learning and development;

  • Develops the technology advisory business by leveraging own network to build and strengthen the network of others with the aim of winning new business;

  • Coaches others on how to communicate the business case for change and respond to challenges;

  • Makes budget, scope and staffing decisions to ensure quality, maximize profitability and sell the work;

  • Oversees work plan and resources to deliver projects within established budget and timeline;

  • Leverages team to maintain own focus on the client relationship, critical issues and key decisions;

  • Promote practice economics by ensuring billing and collections are done expeditiously;

  • Keep abreast of technology trends and how they affect business;

  • Use judgment to identify risk and apply global and local quality processes and risk procedures to each client;

  • Defines the broader business objectives to guide the work of others;

  • Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field from a recognized university;
  • At least 3 years' experience in technology projects in one or more of the following areas;
    • ERP Implementation
    • Cloud Transformation
    • Technology Strategy and Architecture
  • A professional certification in one or more of the following areas;
    • SAP
    • Oracle
    • AWS
    • TOGAF
    • PMP
  • Prior experience providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement;
  • Ability to demonstrate experience in developing quality deliverables through strong communication skills; and
  • Previous experience in Consulting with a professional services firm is an added advantage.

Additional Information

Your role as a leader

At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.

Leadership Capabilities

Living our Purpose - Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact.

Influence - Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills.

Performance drive - Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track.

Strategic direction - Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.

Talent development - Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value difference, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities and thinking styles.

Our Purpose

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world. #Makinganimpactthatmatters

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Closing date: 8 September 2024

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

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