Senior Director - Financial Markets Infrastructure
Location: Atlanta, GA, United States
Date Posted: May 17, 2024
Alvarez & Marsal's Financial Services Industry group partners with financial services firms and private investors to drive results, create value and unlock business opportunities at every stage of their growth strategies. Through deals, disruption, and distress solutions, we join forces with clients to catalyze growth and profitability, navigate the complex industry challenges, and harness rapid technological changes that drive market advantage.
We provide end-to-end portfolio and M&A services; deliver innovation, revenue growth and efficiency through business transformation; and execute rapid solutions to turn around businesses. Clients can expect bottom line results through action-oriented leadership and success-aligned fee arrangements, delivered by our global team of turnaround experts, industry operators, digital leaders, and regulatory specialists. Visit us here to find out more about A&M's Financial Services Industry group.
You are:
A respected leader and a trusted advisor to clients within the Financial Market industry ecosystem (Exchanges, Clearing & Depositories, Service Providers, Market Data), with deep expertise in technology, operations and markets. You are excited to leverage your experience to transform Financial Services organizations; working across the C-suite to capitalize on disruption, enable competitiveness, and drive growth and profitability via continuous innovation. T his is an in-office hybrid role; you will be located in our New York, Dallas or Atlanta office.
The work:
Lead business development and client development activities collaborating with Managing Directors and the broader firm, including the development of proposals, conducting presentations and being a partner to our clients.
Lead complex projects and ensuring successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement, including:
Own the project planning, risk, budget, process management, and communicating progress to clients and A&M leadership.
Drive development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis).
Manage the client relationship on a day-to-day basis.
Managing project scope and maintaining an acceptable pace of work.
Oversee multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization in order to understand their needs and help to influence the client agenda.
Identify opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
Leading senior client presentations and meetings.
Identify and develop new client opportunities to advise companies on transformational change and capability building.
Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
Lead and contribute to other A&M projects, for example by sharing expertise or best practices.
Contribute to the development of intellectual property within the Financial Services Industry including improving methodologies, tools, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches.
Engage with Financial Markets Infrastructure (FMI) macro industry trends, competitive dynamics and disruptors (fintech, digital, AI, etc.) to generate thought leadership and innovative new ideas to respond to evolving industry challenges.
Provide mentorship and coaching to Director through Analyst level employees to help develop their consulting skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback, and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow.
Here's what you need:
Minimum 12 years Strategy Consulting OR a combination of Strategy Consulting and industry experience supporting Asset and Wealth Management trading & operations, FMIs (Exchanges, service providers, data providers, etc.) or Private equity clients with one or more of the following areas:
Growth Strategy and Business Model Transformation
Performance Improvement/Cost Re-engineering
Pricing and Revenue Optimization
Data, Platform and Technology Modernization
Operations and Risk Controls Design, Deployment, Right-sourcing, Right-shoring
Innovation, Data & Analytics, Digital and AI
Seasoned leader with strong entrepreneurial drive, who thrives on intellectual challenge and understanding clients' unique circumstances and needs to support their initiatives.
Proven track record of developing new client relationships and generating business development opportunities that leads to successful client engagements.
Experience leading cross-functional teams and in-depth of knowledge/defined involvement in helping frame, design and execute solutions for challenging business situations.
Sophisticated executive demeanor, comfortable functioning at the highest levels of client organizations; excellent presentation skills, including strong verbal and writing capabilities.
Bachelor's Degree.
Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
The salary range is $175,000 - $275,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.
Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings' fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined from time to time as well as a 401(k) retirement plan. Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive a discretionary contribution to their 401(k) from Alvarez & Marsal. Click here for more information regarding A&M's benefits programs.
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