Asset & Wealth Management - Alternative - Manager - Birmingham, United Kingdom - PwC

Description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Asset and Wealth Management

Specialism

Advisory - Other

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

In support of unprecedented growth, PwC's Consulting practice currently has a vacancy in its FS Enterprise Transformation team for a Manager in its Asset Management & Asset Servicing sector team, working with leading players within Private Investment Markets.

Enterprise Transformation (ET) is at the centre of designing and implementing multi competency changes at the heart of our clients' organisations through designing and implementing the right enterprise operating model or supporting them on their most complex of change programmes.

As part of a specialist team, within the wider Financial Services cluster, you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas. Our highly motivated team has an excellent track record of delivering high quality work to major international clients and has ambitious growth plans.

Our Clients / The Market

As a Manager you are expected to primarily work on client engagements, contributing to and leading transformation projects. However, we pride ourselves in bringing the very latest thinking to our clients and so you will also be expected to be a part of developing our ET solutions, and growing your own ideas, within the Asset Management and Servicing area.

Our client base covers a breadth of organisations spanning: Traditional & Alternative Fund Managers, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Fund Service Providers (Administrators, Transfer Agents, Depositaries), Prime Brokers and Custodians. These are primarily large multinational organisations who are leaders in their respective markets.

Our engagements are consistently part of the global asset management agenda, supporting our clients through fundamental changes in their businesses and positively affecting the lives of people all over the world. Sample engagements include:

• Design and build of the world's largest Private Equity Fund (awarded the Management Consulting Association's Change Project of the Year)
• Current state operating model review for a leading global Private Equity Fund, leading to the implementation of workflow automation through their deals process
• Design and build of a target operating model for a newly established Sovereign Wealth Fund, with the objective of diversifying state wealth away from depleting oil and gas revenues
• Strategic review of a leading Private Equity firm's fund operating platform, to support them to define their fund operating platform of the future
• Review of the operational procedures of a start-up alternative asset manager

Responsibilities

• Client
• Manage/lead workstreams within engagements to design enterprise operating models and deliver enterprise transformation change projects to a high standard
• Build relationships with our key clients
• Identify client needs and help propose solutions to them
• Manage the financial aspects core business KPIs of the engagement
• People
• Be a role model/coach for more junior consultants and for our clients' people
• Be mindful of your own, and support colleagues' well-being
• Build strong relationships within the firm
• Firm
• Support and manage business development activities
• Support the development of propositions we bring to our clients
• Support the quality and risk procedures in the firm
• Personal Development
• Maintain an up-to-date skillset and a consistently high and leading-edge market profile
• Maintain your knowledge of developments in the Asset Management industry
• Become a subject matter expert in at least 2-3 areas within asset management and asset servicing

Requirements

Joining our team as a Manager, we would expect you to have very strong experience of operating model design and large change projects preferably within a consulting environment or leading asset management focused business. You will have been able to demonstrate a track record of high-quality design and delivery success in the work you have undertaken to date and be able to articulate the business benefits of the work.

• Workstream Lead with good business knowledge across the Asset Management value chain - Front Office, Middle Office as well as Back Office within the context of Private Investment Markets.
• Strong track record of >5 years within Operating Model Design and Implementation as a Programme/Project Manager or a Workstream Lead for large complex asset management projects involving market-leading asset management core systems as well as Stakeholder Management.
• Target Operating Model Design and Implementation in relation to Alternative Asset Managers, including structured business analysis, functional decomposition, sourcing model, data model, organisational model as well as high level technical architecture
• Excellent business and technical knowledge of Private Markets platforms - such as eFront, Mercatus, Yardi and MRI (including strengths & weaknesses of platforms, data solutions and current market trends)
• Robust knowledge of Private Markets platforms - such as eFront, Mercatus, Yardi and MRI (including strengths & weaknesses of platforms, data solutions and current market trends)
• Strong knowledge of the PMO function, for example, planning, status reporting, SteerCo reporting.

Favourable additional areas of experience

• It is likely that your work will be part of wider transformational programmes and hence experience in delivering other competencies (Digital Services, Cloud Transformation, Regulatory) is helpful.
• Experience working in a program management role on a large transformation project in Asset Management such as outsourcing middle/back office to a third party.
• Attaining additional professional qualification, for example, CAIA or PRINCE2.

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