Sr Analyst - Strategy Consulting - BFSI

Company : Our client is a US based organization offering Financial Services to Global Clients.

Position :- Senior Analyst/Specialist

Location: Bangalore

Internal Job Code – 0054

Experience: 2-8 years

Job Description:

- This role would support and build key relations with senior business partners in Personal Investing, the retail business of our Client. The ask being partnering with the business to help answer strategic business questions through research and integrated insights and deliver these in the best consultative way possible to senior leaders.

Skills/Competencies

- Consulting role- Banking and finance domain

- Market Research

- Go to strategy expertise.

- Market Entry strategy

- End to End consulting role

- Internal and stake holder strategy.

Flair for quantitative/ qualitative data analyses and interpretation

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Independently leading and project managing research oriented projects and developing subject-matter expertise as a customer and competitive intelligence professional

- Build a reputation with direct clients as a solutioner, consultant and recommendations-driven person

- Use analytical tools, frameworks and methods (competitive benchmarking, SWOT, Five Forces, Strategic Competitor Profiling etc.) for generation of insights from available data and information

- Interact with US team to understand their analysis requirements and also throughout the life of the project (kick-off, interim review, final review etc)

- Synthesise data out of multiple data sources to perform analysis about industry/companies/products

- Supervising and quality control, following best practices in project management

- Effectively communicate findings, concerns, ideas, project management elements to multiple stakeholders in an offshore-onshore environment

- Adept at knowledge management

- Competent with managing client relationships

Skills/Competencies

- Comfort with various techniques of secondary research such as looking up right sources, understanding source credibility, keyword usage, etc

- Demonstrated above-par analytical ability

- Flair for quantitative/ qualitative data analyses and interpretation

- Ability to process data to draw insights, answering “so what” questions about data

- Able to synthesize large volumes of data into comprehensible and insightful information

- Comfort with unstructured data and niche industries/ products/ services

- Comfort with making intelligent assumptions to estimate not-so-easily available data points

- Comfort with making conclusions based on limited data, as available

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with specific focus on “persuasive, influencing” communication style

- Adept in Word, Excel and PowerPoint with special focus on error-free formatting

- Understanding of known industry analysis tools such as Porters’ Five Forces, SWOT analysis, Competitive Metrics, Quadrant Analyses such as BCG or GE matrix etc;

- Also able to generate coherent and intelligent frameworks to convey own insights

- High level of intellectual curiosity

- Professional attitude on service quality

- Attention to detail, especially in all aspects of report making from research to preparation of presentation and client interaction

- Driven, self-starter, go-getter, solution-oriented

- Would typically be in the top 10% of his/ her organization, performance-wise

Education and Experience

- Bachelor’s and post-graduate qualification from top-tier institutions. MBA or equivalent qualification preferred.

- Meaningful experience in strategic secondary research, value-added knowledge services analysis, insight-building, consulting

- Experience in third-party KPOs, financial services, information technology, management consulting, biotech and healthcare industries is also valued

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