Assistant Director, Value Creation Services (Financial Services), Performance Improvement

Are you looking for a move into Value Creation Services (VCS)? We are keen to hear from you! VCS is a hands-on, delivery focused performance improvement team. We support Private Equity backed Financial Services focused businesses. We assist them to accelerate their performance, delivering improvements to their cash & EBITDA position. Our team is pragmatic in its approach and helps businesses overcome challenges by supporting management (and owners, where appropriate) to drive sustainable operational change. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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Connect to your opportunity

You will have the opportunity to work closely with our Private Equity and corporate clients in delivering performance improvement initiatives and turnarounds. Successful candidates will benefit from a demonstrable strong track record in delivering performance improvement initiatives, experience in navigating senior stakeholders and strong analytical skills, including Excel/PowerPoint capability.

You will be responsible for:

• Assisting Financial Services clients in assessing the value creation potential within their business, and developing action plans to deliver against performance improvement initiatives.
• Working hands-on with management teams to get buy-in across the business and implement agreed initiatives within an accelerated timeframe to maximise value.
• Supporting corporate, private equity and financial investors across the full M&A lifecycle.
• Working with FS-focused colleagues from Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SRTA), Technology & Transformation, and the broader Deloitte network to provide our clients with a coherent overview of the business operations, performance gaps and the potential for rapid improvement.
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

This is an opportunity to leverage your performance improvement and turnaround experience in a stimulating new environment. Our VCS practice is experiencing rapid growth and we now have multiple opportunities across the team to recruit high calibre delivery individuals.

• Demonstrable track record of successfully delivering performance improvement programs or delivering an operational turnaround at an accelerated pace within a consultancy or corporate background.
• FS sector focus, ideally across a range of FS sub-sectors.
• Proven experience in the implementation of either cost reduction, cash and working capital or liquidity management initiatives.
• Credentials in pre-deal operational due diligence and/or pre/post-deal carve out and integration.
• Track record in business development, including generation of new leads and building out existing projects.
• Experience with private equity portfolio companies is desirable.
• Senior stakeholder and project management capability.
• Experience in managing and developing talent.
• Very strong analytical skills and experience in Excel and/or other BI tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI etc ).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Flexibility for international travel.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.