Strategy Senior Consultant/Manager/Senior Manager (Financial Services) | Monitor Deloitte

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Core Experience Requirements

• Financial services strategy, preferably with a focus on banking, payments, digital banking, wallets or FinTech
• GCC banking market exposure, including understanding of regional banks, regulators, customer segments, product dynamics and competitive landscape
• Development of market entry, growth, product, segment or digital financial services strategies
• Assessment of banking and payments revenue pools, including the ability to size opportunities by customer segment, product and channel
• Preparation of business cases and financial projections for banks, digital banks, wallets, FinTechs or financial services platforms
• Understanding of key banking products and their economics, including deposits, lending, payments, cards, remittances, SME banking, wealth or Islamic banking products
• Ability to translate strategic opportunities into clear investment cases, including revenue potential, cost implications, key assumptions, risks and implementation priorities
• Awareness of technology and platform cost implications in digital financial services, without needing to be a technology implementation specialist
• Ability to develop practical strategy to execution roadmaps, including sequencing of initiatives, dependencies, investment requirements and key decision points
• Experience supporting senior client discussions, workshops and executive-level presentations

Skills And Capabilities

• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to structure ambiguous strategic questions
• Commercial judgement, with the ability to connect market opportunity, customer needs, product economics and investment requirements
• Strong quantitative skills, including market sizing, revenue modelling, business case development and scenario analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create senior-level storylines, presentations and client ready outputs
• Ability to work with cross functional teams across strategy, operations, technology, regulatory, risk and product teams
• Comfort working in fast paced proposal and delivery environments across multiple GCC markets
• Ability to independently own workstreams, manage team members and engage senior stakeholders

Preferred Background

• Strategy consulting experience with a focus on financial services in GCC
• In-house strategy, digital, product or corporate development roles within banks, FinTechs, payment companies or digital financial services platforms
• Prior work on digital bank, wallet, payment, FinTech, market entry, revenue pool, product strategy or business case projects
• Exposure to GCC markets, especially UAE, KSA, Qatar or broader Middle East financial services
• Understanding of Islamic banking, remittances, SME banking, wealth, cards, payments or digital lending propositions