senior manager - banking transformation & strategy.

A leading consulting firm is looking for an entrepreneurial Senior Manager to steer their financial services modernization division. In this executive-level role, you will champion strategic growth, architect complex technology and operating overhauls, and act as a trusted strategist to banking boardrooms navigating change.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Delivery & Advisory: Oversee complex, multi-workstream modernizations from conception to value realization. Provide high-level counsel to executive stakeholders (CIOs, COOs, and Business Heads) on roadmap sequencing, architecture shifts, and risk management across key verticals (including Retail/Corporate Lending, Payments, Deposits, Risk, and Treasury).

• Commercial Growth: Expand the firm's market footprint by identifying emerging client needs, quarterbacking high-stakes RFP defenses, and closing major consulting engagements. Build strategic alliances with software vendors and fintech pioneers to co-create market-ready solutions.

• Practice & Talent Cultivation: Inspire and upskill a high-caliber consulting team. Elevate delivery standards by developing proprietary methodologies, frameworks, and thought leadership that reinforce the firm's market positioning.

Requirements

• 10+ years within a management or technology consulting firm, strictly serving banking and financial services clients.

• Proven success delivering large-scale core banking modernizations, digital banking overhauls, or complex target operating model (TOM) designs.

• Deep structural understanding of key banking functions (Payments, Corporate/Retail Lending, Trade Finance, Deposits, and back-office Operations/Risk/Finance).

• Strong background in opportunity origination, proposal shaping, and facilitating executive steering committees with conflicting stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business, Finance, Engineering, or Computer Science preferred).

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