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Sia · 2 months ago

Manager - Finance & Risk Management

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group that helps clients navigate transformation through strategy and management consulting. The Manager in Finance & Risk Management will lead projects related to business transformation, regulatory governance, and technology transformation, focusing on delivering solutions to financial institutions.

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Responsibilities

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, coach 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

Manage 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

Define 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

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

Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities

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

Lead business development and proposal efforts

Drive sales efforts and lead internal corporate initiatives

Lead major projects and manage relationships with flagship and key accounts

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

Collaborate with engagement team to deliver high-quality work products

Apply strategic and critical thinking to develop recommendations that address client challenges

Manage team of resources to ensure deliverables are provided on time

Provide guidance and mentoring to team

Qualification

Management ConsultingFinancial ServicesRisk ManagementCapital ReportingLiquidity ReportingBusiness Process DesignData AnalysisClient Relationship ManagementMulti-taskingLeadershipTeam CollaborationPresentation SkillsAttention to DetailMentoringCommunication Skills

Required

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

7+ years of management consulting experience

5+ years spearheading projects related to Financial Services industry broadly and/or; Banking products and services (e.g. Capital Planning / Stress Testing (CCAR / DFAST), Traded Products Risk, Market Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Foreign Exchange Risk, Treasury, etc.)

Business process design, modeling, and automation

Previous experience and background in Capital and/or Liquidity reporting

Ability to manage client relationships and networks, present to senior audiences, and work day-to-day with senior and mid-level clients

Ability to multi-task competing priorities while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail

Demonstrated leadership experience

Preferred

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