Associate Manager – Finance & Risk Management
- Full-time
Company Description
Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve USD 420 million in turnover for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.
Why Join The Sia Village?
Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing
These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.
Your experience at Sia Partners will be enriched by a(n):
- Entrepreneurial journey
- Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
- Continuous learning & development opportunities
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives
Job Description
Consulting Skills
Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables
Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both them and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties
Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coaches teammates in preparing client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables
Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data
Manages internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve
Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship
Defines the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments
Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects
Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information
Business Expertise Skills
Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
Maintains a deep understanding of business concepts, issues and challenges and key knowledge to master a business expertise
Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain
Contribute to the development of new solutions in own areas of expertise
Takes a leading role within internal firm knowledge-share activities and organizations, ensuring complete knowledge and competency transfer to other consultants
Collaborate with clients’ leadership to improve processes and procedures in areas such as banking governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, treasury transformation, stress testing, and internal audit
Advise and provide clients with strategic recommendations on Risk Management issues facing the financial services sector, focusing on the identification, measurement, and management of Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risks, etc.
Help clients understand and quantify risk exposures, evaluate risk strategies, and build and maintain risk models. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations
Help build tools that enable our clients to efficiently utilize capital and liquidity resources, consistent with regulatory expectations.
Focus on financial risk identification, measurement, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of exposures to interest rate, commodity, equity, credit, and foreign exchange movements
Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
Business Development Skills
Write business proposals and presentations autonomously
Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities
Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders
People Management Skills
Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment
Embody the firm’s values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into their management style
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university is required
5-7+ years of recent client facing management consulting experience
5-7+ years relevant experience managing or creating project deliverables in a consulting environment, with broad experience in management consulting and/or
5+ years spearheading projects related to Financial Services industry broadly and/or;
Banking products and services (e.g. Capital Planning / Stress Testing (CCAR / DFAST), Traded Products Risk, Market Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Foreign Exchange Risk, Treasury, etc.)
Business process design, modeling, and automation
Experienced in delivery of a wide range of Financial Services solutions, maintains deep understanding of the industry and its challenges
You possess strong client relationship development and client management skills
Excellent communication (written and oral) accompanied by strong interpersonal skills
Solid organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to know when to escalate and when not to
Eagerness to be involved with internal initiatives and interest in guiding and leading.
Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
Bonus points if you possess any of the following:
Master's degree in finance, Financial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics & Finance, Accounting & Finance, Business Analytics, etc.
Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Experience in, or exposure to, risk and regulatory issues across multiple areas in consumer-facing financial services, payments, commercial banking, investment banking, sales and trading, risk management in banking, emerging areas of regulation or regulatory dialogue (e.g., climate, ESG, digital assets)
Exposure to front office systems and market data and understanding of data flow between multiple systems including reporting tools
Ability to obtain, process, and analyze large data sets, including through the usage of SQL, SAS, and other data analysis tools
CFA / FRM / CAIA / CPA Certifications
Additional Information
Compensation & Benefits
- $126-132K + Annual Discretionary Bonus
- Healthcare coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance policies
- Generous time off
- Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents regardless of gender
- Building Healthy Families Program
- 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday
- 401(k) Plan – 4% matching on day 1
- College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Commuter Benefits
- Gym Reimbursement through firm medical plan
Actual compensation within that range will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and market location.
Our Commitment to Diversity
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are part of Sia Partners’ DNA. Thanks to our expertise in several sectors and our international growth, our teams include a variety of experiences and cultures. We’re confident that promoting DEIB creates an environment in which everyone can reach their full potential.
Our global network, DEIB@Sia Partners, brings together our people worldwide to facilitate local and global progress, focused on the following areas:
- Gender equality (global Gender Equality Index score of 91/100 for FY19-20)
- LGBTQ+
- Race & Ethnicity
- Working Parents
- Disabilities
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
Work Authorization & Sponsorship
At this time, Sia Partners does not intend to pursue employment with applicants who will require now or in the future visa sponsorship by our company for work authorization in the United States (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa, or any other non-immigrant status).
Workplace Guidelines
Sia Partners maintains its hybrid workplace arrangements and provides a flexible workplace environment that is driven by client and business/market needs. At this time, in person requirements are issued by departments (Business Unit/Business Line) and vary by office location. Consultants are expected to have the ability to be flexible with work location depending on business needs and live within a reasonable distance to the office.
To learn more about our mission, values, and business sectors, please visit our website.
Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.