Project Leader, Capital Markets

Location:

Boston, New York, Washington, D.C.

Geography:

North America

Capabilities:

Big data & advanced analytics, Strategy, Technology & digital

Industries:

Financial institutions

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital venturesand business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Practice Area Profile

BCG's Financial Institutions Practice Area (FIPA) aims to be the consultant of choice for leaders in the financial industry. We seek to achieve that goal by helping clients find their way amid the ever-evolving, ever-shifting competitive landscape. By focusing on the fundamental economics of their businesses and the underlying needs of their customers, we help banks, brokerages, asset managers and other financial- services organizations rethink their strategic assumptions, identify winning business propositions, and seize new opportunities in the expanding digital environment.

What You'll Do

BCG is looking for Project Leader and Principal consultants to help financial institutions address their most difficult challenges within capital markets using strategies that maximize growth, transform business models and create sustainable competitive advantage. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in capital markets and in strategy consulting.

Project Leaders play a key role on client engagements, managing studies to define client needs and supervising research activities to obtain relevant data. Project Leaders oversee the formulation of hypotheses for research and investigation, and the advanced financial analysis of client, competitor, and industry data. They apply knowledge of business principles and industrial organization, develop actionable recommendations, and supervise work including strategic due diligence, product development studies, change management plans, and the evaluation of long-term investment opportunities. Project Leaders are also responsible for managing client contact and play a key role in the development and maintenance of high-level client relationships.

As the senior person most frequently at the client site, Principals interact with the client lead on a day-to-day basis to ensure that expectations are aligned. Principals provide the project management oversight required to meet client expectations. Responsibilities may include the development of presentations, managing of external relationships and consultant work progress, providing status reports, and overseeing budgets.

Projects vary based on client needs, but the importance of seeing possibilities where other people find limits will be a constant. Project Leaders and Principals go deep to unlock insight, challenge established thinking, drive transformation, improve performance, and deliver bottom-line impact.

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

As a senior consultant working in Capital markets, you will have:

• Knowledge and experience with one or more asset classes including equity, fixed income, derivatives, structured products, securities financing, etc..
• Knowledge and experience of front to back trading lifecycle of one or more asset classes (above)
• Knowledge of financial market infrastructure and ecosystem of one or more asset classes (above)
• Knowledge of regulatory environment (market, self-regulation, and prudential requirements) covering global markets activities
• Experience in market and/or counterparty risk management covering global markets
• Experience in client and product strategy, client service models, digital platforms,
• Knowledge of key industry technology / digital trends (distributed ledger, AI/ML, cloud computing, etc.)
• 4+ years experience gained either as a management consultant, strategy roles at a bank, or business line client relationship

BCG's Capital Markets practice focuses on helping banks, nonbanks, exchanges and technology firms face an unprecedented set of challenges and opportunities in driving high performance and shareholder returns. Our approach enables transformational change by applying innovative thinking and rigorous fact-based analysis to clients' most critical challenges. Our industry and technical expertise addresses a wide range of issues for capital markets institutions, including cost reduction, growth and profit improvement, coverage models, operating models, risk, and industry trends and analyses.

Date Posted:

09-Feb-2021

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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