Cedar Management Consulting - Engagement Manager - Management Consulting - FinTech Practice - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

Position : Engagement Manager FinTech, Management Consulting

Job Profile :

About Cedar Cedar is a global management consulting firm operating in 16 countries, having assisted over 1000 clients since 1985. A global firm, Cedar's heritage includes being part of the $1 Billion Renaissance Worldwide, whose leadership team included developers of Balanced Scorecard. The focus is clearly on providing strategic advice and executing change across Strategy, The process, HR, and IT. www.cedar-consulting.com will tell you more. Cedar has been the winner of the prestigious - Best Advisory Firm- award in 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2106 from Banker Middle East, and has been responsible for over 5 large banking integrations. Its division, IBS Intelligence (www.ibsintelligence.com), is a global leader recognized for its independent perspective on financial technology.

Position Designation : Engagement Manager

Location: Mumbai (with extensive international travel)

The key description of Role :

- The role includes managing consulting projects as part of FinTech practice. While the primary focus is to work on IT Strategy / Application Selection / Program management engagements, CIO Advisory, Program Assurance/ Health checks, there will also be significant opportunities to work on engagements across strategy formulation, process and business transformation areas.

- Engagements involve building business ownership and coordinating with client team - business & technical, and with vendor personnel. Cedar's practice has rich experience in Evaluation, selection and project management across leading vendors of Core banking, Treasury, Trade Finance, Enterprise GL, Cash management, Credit Card, Risk Management, Data Warehousing systems and other applications.

- The job involves extensive use of office applications - PowerPoint, Excel & Word. We have offices in global cities and a large number of projects presently executed in the Asia/Middle East region.

- Primary responsibility includes consulting engagement delivery, client relationship, team management and assistance in identifying cross-sell opportunities within existing relationship.

Position Competencies :

- 7 to 10 years of relevant experience

- Good academic track record plus a Masters or a Post-Graduate degree from a premier B-school

- Rich experience in project lead / PM roles

- Good Understanding of BFSI segment

- Core banking experience would be a plus, PMP/ Prince certification will be an advantage

- Good Leadership skills and an enterprising personality