Senior Manager / Director – Strategy & Transformation in Banking

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Banking & Finance

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Your tasks

• You join PwC Advisory to become part of our Financial Services Strategy & Transformation Team in Zurich.
• You will leverage your relationship, network and expertise to identify new opportunities in the market and to support business development activities with our banking clients
• You will lead large transformation programs with our banking clients and provide strategic advise when it comes to their core banking business while working with multi-disciplinary project teams
• You will advise our clients on their strategic change initiatives as well as operating model design projects
• You are part of a team that operates strongly in an interdisciplinary environment within PwC. You will be using and building bridges to our fellow teams that work at the technological edge in big data analysis, artificial intelligence and robotic process automation.
• You work in a global environment with the largest FS companies (banks, insurances, crypto companies, etc.)
• You will contribute to the firms success by driving your business development agenda and respond to client’s request for proposal
• You will be responsible to provide through leadership to the banking sector and generate new leads
• You will deepen your expertise and grow through tailored trainings and access to learning and development.

Your profile

• You have an excellent University / ETH Master's degree in Banking, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Information Technology or an adjacent field that enables you to work with asset managers and banks.
• More than 10 years of experience in Banking, Wealth Management, Asset Management and or Investment banking interacting in a global environment
• You have a deep understanding of the core banking business and banking operations as well as with the banking product and service offering
• Deep understanding of banking processes
• You have a proven track record in leading large banking transformations as well as working on the regulatory process to obtain a license from a financial services supervisory authority
• You have a solid understanding of the Swiss financial market place and the regulatory framework, preferably with an existing network in the banking sector
• Analytical thinking, high customer orientation and a high motivation to work in a dynamic team are your distinguishing characteristics.
• You work well in a team, and you are able to work independently when needed.
• You are a self-starter and fast learner, and can work well under tight deadlines.
• You are fluent in English, German is a significant plus and other languages are welcome (e.g. French, Italian, etc.)
• You are willing to travel to our client's international locations if required but are not disappointed if you are not needed to leave Zurich at all for a given time. 

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