senior manager - banking transformation & strategy.
Job Description
A leading consulting firm is looking for an entrepreneurial Senior Manager to steer their financial services modernization division. In this executive-level role, you will champion strategic growth, architect complex technology and operating overhauls, and act as a trusted strategist to banking boardrooms navigating change.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Delivery & Advisory: Oversee complex, multi-workstream modernizations from conception to value realization. Provide high-level counsel to executive stakeholders (CIOs, COOs, and Business Heads) on roadmap sequencing, architecture shifts, and risk management across key verticals (including Retail/Corporate Lending, Payments, Deposits, Risk, and Treasury).
- Commercial Growth: Expand the firm's market footprint by identifying emerging client needs, quarterbacking high-stakes RFP defenses, and closing major consulting engagements. Build strategic alliances with software vendors and fintech pioneers to co-create market-ready solutions.
- Practice & Talent Cultivation: Inspire and upskill a high-caliber consulting team. Elevate delivery standards by developing proprietary methodologies, frameworks, and thought leadership that reinforce the firm's market positioning.
Requirements
- 10+ years within a management or technology consulting firm, strictly serving banking and financial services clients.
- Proven success delivering large-scale core banking modernizations, digital banking overhauls, or complex target operating model (TOM) designs.
- Deep structural understanding of key banking functions (Payments, Corporate/Retail Lending, Trade Finance, Deposits, and back-office Operations/Risk/Finance).
- Strong background in opportunity origination, proposal shaping, and facilitating executive steering committees with conflicting stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science preferred).
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Key Skills
core banking modernizations
Retail Lending
Risk Finance
digital banking overhauls

