Associate Manager – Finance & Risk Management

Company Description

Sia Partners is a next-generation management consulting firm. We offer a unique blend of AI and design capabilities, augmenting traditional consulting to deliver superior value to our clients. Counting 3,000 consultants in 19 countries, we expect to achieve USD 420 million in turnover for the current fiscal year. With a global footprint and expertise in more than 30 sectors and services, we optimize client projects worldwide. Through our Consulting for Good approach, we strive for next-level impact by developing innovative CSR solutions for our clients, making sustainability a lever for profitable transformation.

Why Join The Sia Village?

Excellence | Entrepreneurship | Innovation | Teamwork | Care & Support | Employee Wellbeing

These are the six core values that guide all our actions. As an expression of our values, our Sia Village concept describes our commitment to fostering a sense of community within and among our offices. We believe that knowledge sharing is the key, not only to innovation, but to the growth and development of our people.

Your experience at Sia Partners will be enriched by a(n):

• Entrepreneurial journey
• Career advocacy program that supports achieving professional development goals through guidance, and real-time feedback
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs with an ever-growing list of global affinity initiatives

Job Description

Consulting Skills

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables 

• Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both them and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties 

• Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coaches teammates in preparing 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

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

• 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

• Manages internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve 

• Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship 

• Defines the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments

• 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 

• Maintains a deep understanding of business concepts, issues and challenges and key knowledge to master a business expertise

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

• Contribute to the development of new solutions in own areas of expertise 

• Takes a leading role within internal firm knowledge-share activities and organizations, ensuring complete knowledge and competency transfer to other consultants 

• Collaborate with clients’ leadership to improve processes and procedures in areas such as banking governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, treasury transformation, stress testing, and internal audit 

• Advise and provide clients with strategic recommendations on Risk Management issues facing the financial services sector, focusing on the identification, measurement, and management of Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity Risks, etc. 

• Help clients understand and quantify risk exposures, evaluate risk strategies, and build and maintain risk models. This includes gathering and analyzing information, formulating, and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations 

• Help build tools that enable our clients to efficiently utilize capital and liquidity resources, consistent with regulatory expectations. 

• Focus on financial risk identification, measurement, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of exposures to interest rate, commodity, equity, credit, and foreign exchange movements 

• Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients. 

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 in Finance, Business Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university is required 

• 5-7+ years of recent client facing management consulting experience 

• 5-7+ years relevant experience managing or creating project deliverables in a consulting environment, with broad experience in management consulting and/or 

• 5+ years spearheading projects related to Financial Services industry broadly and/or; 

• Banking products and services (e.g. Capital Reporting/Capital Planning / Stress Testing (CCAR / DFAST), CAR( Capital Adequacy Ratio)/CRAR, MCT Ratios, BCAR-OSFI, Traded Products Risk, Market Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Foreign Exchange Risk, Treasury, etc.) 

• Business process design, modeling, and automation 

• Experienced in delivery of a wide range of Financial Services solutions, maintains deep understanding of the industry and its challenges 

• You possess strong client relationship development and client management skills 

• Excellent communication (written and oral) accompanied by strong interpersonal skills 

• Solid organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills 

• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to know when to escalate and when not to 

• Eagerness to be involved with internal initiatives and interest in guiding and leading.

• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting 

Bonus points if you possess any of the following: 

• Master's degree in finance, Financial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics & Finance, Accounting & Finance, Business Analytics, etc. 

• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word )

• Experience in, or exposure to, risk and regulatory issues across multiple areas in consumer-facing financial services, payments, commercial banking, investment banking, sales and trading, risk management in banking, emerging areas of regulation or regulatory dialogue (e.g., climate, ESG, digital assets) 

• Exposure to front office systems and market data and understanding of data flow between multiple systems including reporting tools 

• Ability to obtain, process, and analyze large data sets, including through the usage of SQL, SAS, and other data analysis tools 

• CFA / FRM / CAIA / CPA Certifications 

Additional Information

Sia Partners is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.