Consultant - Financial Services Business Consulting - Transformation Execution Practice (80% - 100%)

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The EY Business Consulting team offers a broad range of functional and cross-country services dedicated to providing trusted advice to clients in the Financial Services industry across Wealth & Asset Management (WAM), Banking and Capital Markets (BCM)  and Insurance sectors. The Financial Services industry is experiencing tremendous change and new challenges. This is an exciting time to join an evolving team and help our clients to navigate the changing market and customer needs. As a Consultant in our Transformation Execution Practice, you will help and support challenging transformation in WAM, BCM and insurance initiatives and design, plan and deliver solutions for our clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Pursuing exciting business-led, tech-enabled transformation initiatives across the Financial Services sector

• Collaborating with key stakeholders, business partners, and multi-disciplinary teams to help shape ideas, design solutions and deliver measurable, sustainable improvements in business performance

• Applying storytelling skills and presenting recommendations to our clients in a clear and analytical manner

• Leveraging and further developing our global EY methodologies, frameworks, tools, accelerators, and enablers for a range of transformation goals

• Developing your skills, through on-the-job client experience as well as internal training opportunities

• Facilitating internal- and external topic roundtables and thought leadership sessions

• Supporting go-to-market and business development initiatives to continuously provide valuable solutions for our clients

What we look for:

• Excellent academic record from a leading university or university of applied sciences

• Strong motivation to join a dynamic consulting environment and to work in the financial services sector

• Experience in team-based projects (either at university or internships)

• A curious mind with the ability to structure problems in a systematic and organized fashion

• Strong presentation skills and a highly client-oriented attitude

• Strong team player, willing to proactively support solutions within highly motivated and diverse teams across functions and geographies

• Fluency in English and German is mandatory, Swiss German and any other language is a plus.

Ideally you will also have:

• Initial work experience in consulting and / or Financial Services (e.g., internships, working student, entry-level position)

• Experience and /or interest in TOM (target operating model) design and process improvements

• Experience and /or interest in Agile and Design Thinking methodologies

• Experience and /or interest in ESG