AP Practice Area Senior Manager - Financial Institutions

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What You'll Do

As a Practice Area Senior Manager within BCG’s Financial Institutions Practice Area (PA), you will own, structure and drive the management and coordination of the regional PA agenda, business and people plan, ensuring that all PA activities in the region run smoothly. Working closely with PA leadership and senior stakeholders across the PA, you will be responsible for setting the strategic agenda and running the day-to-day operations and processes - this involves planning, pipeline monitoring, commercialization activities, marketing & communications for the region, meetings, budgeting & reporting, and support in people related topics such as developing and driving a clear view of talent pyramid and pipeline, affiliation and diversity.

You will act as a thought partner to Practice Area Leadership and support agenda setting, plan conception and execution, facilitating the implementation of the PA action plan to develop the region. You will support business development and provide inputs to marketing efforts, representing the PA and synchronizing efforts at the interface of regions and other industry and functional PA’s, and notably Risk & Compliance, GenAI, and TDA which are priority functional interfaces for FI. You will activate all AP priority topics to ensure commercial traction in AP, in collaboration with other FI sectors (e.g. Payments in AP, Global Asset managers in AP). You will plan and execute regional PA meetings and support global and regional PA projects as well as perform regular financial analyses and reporting.

You will also be an integral part of the FI PA Management & Operations team and lead and contribute to specific global initiatives such as global planning and global business analysis. Those efforts will be defined based on overall practice priorities and capacity.

What You'll Bring

• 8 - 10 years of relevant experience
• Master’s degree preferred
• Role related certifications preferred
• Ability to manage and drive area of accountabilities, contributing to higher level agenda setting
• Ability to lead more complex, broader sub functional teams or projects fully independently and provide direction to others
• Ability to resolve complex issues and non-defined problems autonomously, with full business acumen
• Strong interpersonal skills, credibility
• Ability to influence senior members of the PA and beyond
• Ability to respect sensitive client, BCG, and people related information as personal and confidential
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced knowledge in Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel

Who You'll Work With

Practice Area Management & Operations team members keep BCG’s industry and functional practice areas operating responsively and efficiently. As a member of this team, you will contribute directly to the success of our business through a number of roles, including content development, process management, marketing, meeting and conference management, and internal/external communications.

Additional info

YOU 'RE GOOD AT

• Managing ambiguity with a high level of comfort
• Self-starting with a strong work ethic, entrepreneurial drive to work autonomously and in a multinational team
• Earning the respect of a very senior cohort, all Managing Directors, that are remotely located, juggling the various priorities and viewpoints of the Leadership Team members, showing influence to compile inputs and opinions from the Leadership Team members, while still meeting demanding deadlines
• Operating effectively in a matrix organization with the ability to prioritize and make decisions
• Complex project management with the ability to multi-task and drive advanced strategic analysis (beyond data) and leverage results for impact
• Working closely to develop and enhance people initiatives – developing a plan to manage the people networks and support the success of consultants with the practice involvement
• Affiliation, communication and training - organizing internal/ external events and calls, develop agendas for meetings and preparing communication, coordinate calls, Virtual Trainings, LAB activities, own sector platforms, and develop all sector internal communications / newsletters on regular basis.
• Working independently to identify need for, scope, gain endorsement and drive implementation of commercially impactful initiatives
• Leading others including senior business leaders in clarifying problems and developing solutions by building cross-PA partnerships - building consensus, persuading and influencing.
• Motivating others to deliver highest standards, providing direction, mentoring and coaching.

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