Experienced Associate - Organization Strategy - BFSI - IIM/MDI/ISB/FMS

Work with client engagement teams executing organization strategy projects and independently lead workstreams to help develop and execute strategies for business 

- Build relationships and communicate effectively in order to positively influence peers and stakeholders 

- Be responsible for understanding the client's growth vision, business model, resources, strategy and planning, and risks. 

- Evaluate client's business model, value chain, competition, operating model, cost structure and identify opportunities for sustainable cost reduction, headcount and footprint optimization, process excellence 

- Expertise in organization redesign, functional transformation, cost transformation, organization structure and operating model design, diagnostics and benchmarking, business case analysis 

- Understanding of outsourcing/ shared services strategy including vendor management and contract assessment 

- Experience working on Digital Strategy, RPA/ Intelligent automation CoE and operating model design, automation opportunity assessment, industry benchmarking, automation business case, digital proof of concepts/ pilot design 

- Experience with process improvement and process mining (e.g. Working with tools such as Celonis) 

- Ability to synthesize complex information and generate meaningful insights based on analysis of client's data and information from primary and secondary research 

- Ability to marry quantitative and qualitative analysis into meaningful storyboards and insights

- Ability to support business and practice development efforts (e.g: proposals, thought leadership, case studies, work plans and internal team metric trackers)

Skills Preferred: 

- Demonstrate proven industry and management consulting skills while working collaboratively with business stakeholders and project teams to deliver measurable results 

- Synthesize complex information and generate meaningful insights based on analysis of client's data and information from primary and secondary research 

- Experience in analysis and modeling using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Visual Basic, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, UI Path or other similar tools 

- Firm understanding of one or more typical SG&A functions 

- Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology preferred 

- Structured verbal and written communication skills, strong facilitation and presentation skills 

- Willingness and ability to take initiative and drive engagements independently

Professional and Educational Background: 

- MBA or equivalent post-graduate degree from a Tier-1 business school 

- Past experience in the management/ strategy consulting domain and exposure to the multinational environment will be an added bonus