Job Description
About NextWave NextWave is an award-winning Digital Acceleration Consultancy for Financial Services with a particular focus on rapidly driving business outcomes and modernising Financial Institutions through technology. Clients come to NextWave because they have key integration, business growth, efficiency and control objectives and seek a more future-focused alternative to the big-name consultancies. Strategy, Innovation, Complex Transformation, FinTech Solutioning and Social Enterprise are at the heart of what we do.
By combining deep industry expertise with the innovative deployment of business solutions built on market-leading technology, we enable clients to realise business outcomes better, faster and safer. We help our clients to define their strategies and partner with them to execute, often deploying fintech and low-code solutions which can typically be delivered 5x faster than traditional approaches, resulting in processes automated from weeks to minutes and data decision accuracy improvements of up to 90%.
The NextWave team comprises high-calibre Financial Services industry change leaders, including ex-MDs from top-tier firms and new talent. We are the consulting partner of choice for leading FinTechs, Banking, Asset & Wealth Management, Insurance, and Market Infrastructure clients.
Responsibilities - Work with our clients to understand their business challenges and problems - undertaking requirements gathering, client interviewing, documentation of processes and process assessment, and effectively communicating these to various audiences.
- Design and propose potential solutions identifying various pros, cons and risks.
- Build and execute project plans co-ordinating status, issues, risks and providing clarity to everyone involved of their responsibilities to effectively deliver successful business outcomes under an Agile framework.
- Construct and define test scenarios and test data to ensure requirements are completely and accurately implement them.
- Implementation and post-go live support to ensure success of the developed solutions.
- Contribute to our internally built offerings as we build a collection of best-in-class solutions.
- Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
- Actively get involved in the new consulting community.
Candidate Profile - Previous operations experience
- Previous experience in delivering change within asset management
- Ability to deliver projects using Agile delivery method
- Ability to work effectively and dynamically on multiple projects
- Strong technology, analytical and communication skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of an organisation
- Excellent Stakeholder management
- Excellent problem-solving skills and evidenced ability to break problems down into logical steps
- Organised and evidenced ability to co-ordinate and deliver complex outcomes.
- Exemplary communication skills, both written and oral, to clearly communicate status, problems and requirements.
Benefits - Competitive salary
- Agile/ Flexible working
- Professional training and accreditation
- 401k match
- Health Insurance Plan
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Our commitment to you: We will provide mentoring, training and guidance (technical skills, soft skills and Finance business skills) from our leadership team who have many years of practical experience delivering business outcomes in the Finance arena.
Work pattern: This is a permanent role with a potential for flexibility for agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.
What we do: We provide Consulting expertise and delivery services with a focus on a select group of progressive technology platforms which are helping to change the FS Industry.
The evolution of today's digital business landscape requires firms to reinvent to stay relevant and succeed in the new market, at a pace not seen before. Opportunities and threats are emerging from traditional and non-traditional sectors, driving new strategies across the dimensions of clients, competition, data, innovation and value. A new stack of FinTech platform technologies are enabling firms to reinvent their value proposition to collaborate and compete on customer experience, data insights, operational resilience and time to market.
Location: You will be based in the NextWave Americas New York office, however, travel may be required for client based projects and some projects will be located fully at client office locations. NextWave Consulting Ltd
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