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Consulting Point  have a dedicated team of Financial Services (FS) recruiters that specialise in recruitment of management consultants into the Financial Services Sector and providing candidates to the Financial Services vertical within management consultancies. Our clients range from Investment banks, Retail Banks, Insurance Houses, Life & Pensions, Professional Services and leading Management Consultancies and Regulatory bodies who advise leading Financial Institutions.


Our team focus in the following areas:

• Management Consulting
• Risk & Regulation
• Operations
• Technology
• Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
• Strategy


Management Consulting


We currently work with a number of Tier 1 Global Strategy firms, Big 4, medium sized consultancies with a FS sector offering and specialist boutique consultancies that work predominantly in Financial Services consulting.

The skills we cover tend to be in Strategy, M&A Advisory and Due Diligence, Performance Improvement, Finance Effectiveness, Risk & Regulation, Change Management, Project Management, Technology, Human Capital, Quantitative Analytics, Business Intelligence, Customer and Outsourcing


Risk & Regulation
 
Our focus is around all aspects of Risk – Risk Strategy, Market Risk, Operational Risk, Credit Risk, Capital Risk, Regulatory Risk, Liquidity Risk, Technology & Security Risk, Risk Analytics/Quantitative and Counterpart Risk.  We cover all phases of the Risk lifecycle from Risk Strategy through implementation encompassing risk framework and architecture, programme management, architecture, risk technology, risk quantification, and meeting regulatory requirements (Basel III, Solvency II). Our regulatory offering is generally around sourcing consultants who keep up-to-date with emerging regulatory obligations (FSA, BoE) to help deliver front to back implementation of regulatory requirements across all asset classes and includes Regulatory Compliance, Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Regulatory Audit.


Operations

Our focus is around Documentation, Reconciliation, Settlements, Trade Support and typically we work on  roles such as business analysis, change management, project & programme management, process re-engineering (lean/six sigma) and outsourcing across all asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Exchange Traded Derivatives, OTC Derivatives etc.


Technology
 
Our focus is around providing banking or insurance specialists with experience of defining and delivering end-to-end technology solutions for major change programmes. Our candidates have sound working knowledge of leading vendor packages in Insurance, Capital Markets, Retail Banking and Asset Management, as well as major Finance system packages and also have relevant technology related qualification, such as TOGAF or ISEB.

Our expertise includes the following: 
 
1. Programming Languages – Java, C#, Microsoft.Net, C++, Unix

2. Databases – DB2, Sybase, SQL, UDB

3. Architecture – Enterprise, Solution, Application, Infrastructure and Technical Architecture including SOA

4. Business Intelligence and Modelling/Quants - SPSS, SAS, Advanced Excel (VB/VBA), SQL, MS Access, Hyperion Essbase, Cognos, Business Objects

5. Technology Project Managers and Business Analysts (Bas)and System Business Analysts (SBAs)

6. Software Specialists - Murex, Calypso, Misys, SAP Banking, iflex, Temenos, Finacle, Hyperion, Cognos

7. Risk System - Strategy and Architecture, System Integration and Delivery. We cover development of logical, conceptual, and physical data models, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams in financial markets, particularly related to credit, market, or liquidity risk.
 

Finance

Our candidates are likely to be a qualified accountants (ACA, ACCA, ICAEW, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent) with  post qualification experience in a finance function, audit or consultancy within Financial Services. Typically our candidates have experience in some areas specific to Financial Services such as Product Control, Basel II, Solvency II and Actuarial but overall have a good understanding of accounting procedures and processes within banking or insurance including O2C, P2P, Budgeting, Consolidation, Management Information, shared services, outsourcing and experience in supporting decision making at a senior level (CFO).



Mergers & Acquisitions

 

The Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team deliver recruitment solutions which cover the entire spectrum including synergy reviews, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, leveraged buyouts, takeover defence, carve outs, post-merger integration and commercial and financial due diligence.


Strategy


Normally we look for candidates with previous strategy consulting experience, ideally combined with some commercial financial services sector experience from either:


• A deal-focused consulting firm

• A pure play strategy consulting firm
• The strategy department of a leading financial services company

The types of skills we recruit for include corporate strategy/implementation, market entry, growth strategy, pricing strategy, operating models, operations strategy and M&A deal strategy.


 


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