Commercial Financial Services Senior Consultant | Consumer Banking

What You Will Do:

Guidehouse is a next-generation advisory, technology, and managed services consulting firm serving the public and commercial markets in financial services, healthcare, sustainability, and national defense. Our mission is to help clients solve their most complex and important challenges. Our vision is to build relationships, advance knowledge, insight, and capacity to implement solutions that increase trust in society.

We act as partners with our clients and industry: we work hand-in-hand with clients to develop and implement measurable, meaningful, and sustainable improvements that position them, and their organizations, for success. We connect leading practices with deep industry insight: Our professionals leverage experience gained from work with the government and in commercial industry, bringing the insight, capabilities, and cultural acumen required to develop well thought-out, sustainable solutions.

Our Commercial Financial Services practice works with financial industry leaders, including banks, life insurance companies, hedge funds, and nonbank financial institutions. With new competitors entering the marketplace, razor-thin margins, and a shifting regulatory focus, financial companies are exploring new business models, grappling with modernizing their processes and technology to remain competitive.

Guidehouse offers a challenging high-profile career working closely with prestigious clients at senior levels to deliver real value. Guidehouse is a flourishing company built on trust, teamwork, and enthusiasm that values and respects its employees and clients.

As a Senior Consultant, you will have responsibility for client management, solution implementation and generation of project results. You will own project workstreams and interact with the client daily to ensure engagement success. This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with client sponsors and consulting leaders. As a Senior Consultant, you will be expected to prepare and communicate well-organized, effective reports and presentations to client and internal executives. You will lead, coach and mentor consultants and ensure quality deliverables.

We encourage career development and hiring for the long term. As a Senior Consultant, you will follow a clearly defined career path and continue to deepen your specialized industry knowledge and consulting skills. As you hone your project management skills, leadership abilities, and the aptitude for managing multiple workstreams, you will have the opportunity to progress to the Managing Consultant level.

What You Will Need:

• Minimum three (3)+ years of prior experience in consumer banking as a consultant and/or in the industry

• Bachelor’s degree

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced challenging client focused environment where priorities and scope may change quickly

• Knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

o Consumer Banking regulations and compliance

o Operational improvement and effectiveness

o Technology strategy, governance, and effectiveness

o Business architecture and operating models

o Business process improvement and robotics

o Change management

• Excellent presentation, facilitation, verbal and written communication skills, tailoring communications to both clients and coworkers

• The ability to travel up to 75% for client engagements, as required

• Proficient in all Microsoft Office products

• Creative problem-solving ability and a collaborative, consultancy mindset

• Focus on exceptional quality in all deliverables

• Proven ability to successfully lead client service delivery teams that deliver the highest quality work

• Demonstrated positive and productive client relationship skills

• Ability to generate a quality work product in a timely manner while maintaining a strong attention to detail

• Experience working on discrete, time sensitive projects

• Highly motivated, driven, and dynamic attitude towards work and career

• High-energy, positive, persuasive, and aptitude to lead by example

What Would Be Nice to Have:

• Prior management consulting experience highly preferred

• CPA, Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or other relevant certifications