Deloitte
Strategy Consultant, Financial Services, Strategy & Business Design
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Join our market-leading Financial Services strategy consulting team, widely recognised by our clients for original insight and deep sector expertise.
Create impactful strategies: our work is highly varied, advising on some of the most ambitious strategic programmes in the sector, including:
- Growth, corporate and business unit strategy
- New product development and market entry analysis
- Commercial analysis, modelling and business case construction
- Strategic operating model design and transformation
- Strategy input into and mobilisation of complex transformation programmes
- Senior executive and Board level problem solving and facilitation
What sets us apart:
- End-to-end impact: we go beyond strategy design to shape and deliver transformation; working alongside clients through execution, not just recommendation.
- True cross-functional integration: seamless collaboration across Risk, Technology, Operations, Actuarial and M&A to deliver strategy grounded in real-world constraints and opportunities.
- Deep sector specialism: a focused industry practice across banking, insurance, payments, with credibility across all sub-sectors. Learn from world class experts and work with UK’s leading FS companies.
- AI-enabled strategy and delivery: we help clients identify where AI can create measurable value; from proposition design and customer journeys to operational efficiency, risk management and scalable transformation.
- Entrepreneurial platform: opportunity to shape propositions, build relationships, and contribute directly to growth.
- Build your brand: we invest in developing distinctive expertise, supporting you to grow a personal market profile while contributing to the continued growth of the practice.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values.
Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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As a Strategy Consultant you will be delivering strategy work for our clients day-to-day. While no two projects are the same, you will typically be supporting a workstream within a larger engagement, with oversight and support from a Strategy Manager or senior colleagues as needed. You’ll play a vital hands-on role in designing and executing the strategic analysis required, conducting research and assembling evidence, distilling insights and constructing strategic recommendations.
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The nature of the work we do includes:
- Working with clients to understand and define strategic choices ahead of key investment decisions
- Traditional evidence-led analysis to identify market developments and opportunities to support client strategy formation, including hypothesis based approaches
- Determining the optimum business or commercial model to effectively deliver client objectives
- Helping our clients develop and deliver operational excellence in specific areas, identifying new ways of working that will stimulate innovation and growth, and lead to better decision-making
- Guiding and supporting clients through imagining, defining and delivering their journey to establish competitive advantage
The team: The role sits within the Financial Services Strategy team, part of Monitor Deloitte's Strategy Consulting practice. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Financial Services community, building a network with FS experts across Deloitte, in M&A, Technology & Transformation, Data & AI, and operations consulting lines.
Development: We offer a structured career path and invest in continuous development and learning, which matter greatly to us. Our growth in recent years has been strong and we have ambitious plans for the future: you will find that there is no lack of opportunity for you to develop your career, wherever you may choose to take it.
As a Senior Consultant your responsibilities will include:
- Executing rigorous and insightful analysis to build an evidence base to support strategy development and change, including with the use of approved AI tools
- Being accountable for the analysis and insight for a workstream or small project
- Structuring a component of the ‘problem’, developing hypothesis with direction from senior team members
- Independently completing research and analysis to support quality deliverables, demonstrating strong critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills
- Owning sections of client deliverables and preparing them to a high standard
- Clearly communicating analysis approach and results to team leaders and clients
- Proactively developing your own skills, seeking feedback, building knowledge, and sharing your insight with colleagues
- Supporting development of the Financial Services Strategy community and team, and supporting business development with clients
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We are looking for individuals who are trained in strategy and want to build a career in financial services consulting.
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Essential
- Experience of strategy consulting within a consulting firm or an in-house strategy role
- Experience of working directly in Banking, Insurance and / or Payments, with a desire to build a career in these areas
- Good understanding of at least one sector across Banking, Insurance, Payments and the underlying customers, propositions, economics
- Good understanding of how to construct and evidence strategic arguments, and creativity in identifying evidence sources
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including strong judgement in materials for senior stakeholders.
- Strong time management skills to manage competing priorities across client service, practice development and business development responsibilities
- Strong academic track record
- Flexibility to travel
Desirable
- Any sector specific qualifications (e.g. CFA or other courses or relevant certificates)
- Experience in proposition design, delivery and customer strategy
Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory
In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.
Strategy and Business Design
The experts in our teams in Strategy and Business Design are trusted advisors to CEOs and their wider organisations. Whether that’s launching a new arm of a business, anticipating new and emerging risks or collaborating with other teams, we work on a huge range of varied projects.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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