Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

Banking & Finance

Management Level

Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in management consulting focus on helping clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. They work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. These individuals help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. Management consultants help the world’s most significant organisations, public and private, quickly become more effective. They improve the way organisations operate; manage costs; better align people, process and technology initiatives; support business growth to maintain or improve competitive edge and complete market and regulatory risk assessment.

As an industry focused management consultant at PwC, you will play a vital role in helping clients within your particular industry specialty optimise their operations, improve performance, and achieve strategic objectives. You will leverage your industry relevant knowledge to analyse business data, develop strategies, support management teams, collaborate across teams, optimise tools and technology, improve organisational performance, monitor compliance, and/or manage change.

Your Impact

Work alongside project managers primarily within Core and Digital Banking transformations, migrations and business change projects in the financial service industry. You will advise the project management and sponsorship on core and digital banking and project management tasks.Apply your skills in advising financial services clients on global transformation and change projects within PwC's Core Banking services within the Strategy & Transformation platform in Zurich.Your work will cover all areas of transformations including advising, reviewing and assessing all major phases of a transformation.Manage key stakeholders and support the delivery of key transformation benefits including advise and review of the strategy, design and implementation of core and digital banking platforms.You may also have the opportunity to support in M&A activities, like IT and Operations due diligence assessments, post-merger integrations and carve-outs.Work closely in interdisciplinary teams both internally and from our clients in Switzerland and abroad.Deliver your tasks in scope, time and budget and adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements for financial institutions.

Your Skill Set

You hold an excellent Master’s degree in Business Information Systems, Business Engineering, Information Technology or an adjacent field that enables you to work with banks and technology service providers in the financial services industry.You have 3-5 years of work experience in technology roles within the banking sector, such as IT project management, solution architecture, IT business analysis, systems analysis, or software development for financial institutions.As a plus, you have already been exposed to core and digital platform modernizations and implementations (i.e., Avaloq, Temenos, Finnova or similar core banking systems).You can demonstrate a track record of working in core and digital banking programs from initial assessment through the design & build, including planning as well as execution and calibration.You can read code and scripting languages (SQL, python, R, .NET) but you are just as confident working with the Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, etc.).You like to be challenged and work independently with a pragmatic and hands-on approach but also excel as a team player, with the ability to collaborate effectively.You possess very strong analytical skills and can operate in a well-structured manner.Fluency in both German and English is required. You must be able to communicate complex technical concepts effectively in both languages at a business level.

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Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Budgetary Management, Business Analysis, Business Development, Business Process Improvement, Business Transformation, Change Management, Communication, Customer Relationship Management, Customer Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Management, Inclusion, Industry Trend Analysis, Intellectual Curiosity, Management Consulting, Market Trends, Optimism, Organizational Development (OD), Organizational Management, Process Improvement {+ 7 more}

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Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

No

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