EY - Senior Consultant - Strategy/Design & Innovation (8-15 yrs)

- The candidate will be advising leaders with multi-year transformational agendas, providing structure, planning and input to transformation strategy.

- Also, the candidate will be driving design and mobilization effort on strategic programs, adding speed, certainty and accuracy to the structure and the delivery of programme benefits.

- The consultant will be aligned to a business domain and/or function.

- The purpose of the role is to manage and execute business efforts across a portfolio of consulting projects or play a key role in global priority programs.

Business Analysis and Design:

- Understanding the end to end process of designing, developing and deploying target operating models

- Articulating the use of basic level business models and operating models and participating in their development

- Domain experience in the area of Global Capability Centre operating model design and deployment is a plus

- Key contributor within an engagement team to test and refine designs with stakeholders

- Performing effective analysis and gap assessment to the required level of granularity based on different stakeholder needs / views

- Analysing the current state, identifying the future state and then validating assumptions with stakeholders to align with business requirements

- Experience working with global stakeholders across Lines of Business working on complex business transformation initiatives is a plus

Innovation and Idea Management:

- Demonstrating confidence in putting forward new ideas, and testing new ideas with colleagues and peers

- Supporting requests to develop thought leadership and methodology collateral

- Identifying opportunities to bring new and efficient ways of working in the project

- Participating in activities to improve design thinking methodology

- Keeping abreast of industry trends to bring innovative ideas to the business solutions / engagements

Delivery at Pace:

- Building and maintaining a reputation for reliable, efficient and effective delivery of business solutions

- Understanding the importance of managing own time and workload

- Immediately highlighting/escalating any off-track activities and bottlenecks slowing the success of delivery

- Identifying the opportunities to accelerate the delivery of the projects and acts on them

- Promoting pace and energy within the team

Resource and Team Management:

- Understanding the resource and scheduling process

- Clearly understanding own role and the role of others

- Endorsing team engagement initiatives, fostering learning and collaboration

- Promoting and demonstrating self-development (e.g. training)

- Providing ongoing visibility of project timings and commitments

Planning and Plan Management:

- Identifying necessary steps for the completion of discrete sets of activities with some appreciation of stakeholder perspective

- Supporting the team and coordinating with stakeholders to facilitate the documentation of scope, quality, cost and effort

- Proactively monitoring plan execution and provides comprehensive updates, taking ownership of any assigned plan

Commerciality:

- Understanding the purpose and priorities of the organization, both now and in the future

- Thinking commercially to identify opportunities to develop business from new/existing internal customers

- Considering impact and dependencies of the group priorities for the project and its deliverables

- Challenging business decisions based on domain knowledge