Associate Manager

Job Description

Consulting Skills   

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team   

• Demonstrate the capacity to plan assigned work and identify priorities/interesting parties of the project/assignment, conducts regular points of progress  

• Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management   

• Manage, organize and prioritize work activities & assignments to achieve deadlines while communicating effectively with clients, internal stakeholders and leadership   

• Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data   

• Utilize higher-level methodological concepts to prepare client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables   

• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups  

• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks and overall program health   

• Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects   

• Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information  

Business Expertise Skills  

• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide  

• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain  

• Share experiences related to business issues and demonstrate a capacity for knowledge transfer amongst peers and junior staff   

• Help contribute and support Sia’s growing U.S. Wealth & Asset Management practice 

• Be a great teammate 

Business Development Skills  

• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously   

• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities   

• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders  

People Management Skills  

• Supervise a project team internally and on client assignment  

• Embody the firm’s values of excellence, entrepreneurship, innovation, teamwork, care and support, and employee wellbeing into their management style  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required preferably in a Business or related field  

• 6+ years of recent client-facing management consulting experience (FS background preferred) 

• Leadership and mentorship experience

• Moderate knowledge and skill in consumer banking and payments  

• Trained to moderate knowledge and skill in project management 

• Experience supporting client interview sessions - taking accurate notes, providing meeting minutes, scheduling client meetings, etc. 

• Experience supporting the construction of executive presentations 

• Proven communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills 

• Act as a supportive team player who actively develops relationships and is eager to share knowledge with colleagues and our clients 

• Flexibility in approach and a willingness to adapt quickly and take initiative when working in unstructured environments with limited supervision 

• An ability to transform your domain knowledge and project experiences into published content for Sia Partners Insights