Consultants - Asset & Wealth Management

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.

We deploy consultant teams seamlessly across our international locations in London, New York, Amsterdam, Zurich, Milan, and India.

Responsibilities

• Working 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.
• Designing and proposing potential solutions identifying various pros, cons and risks.
• Building and executing 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.
• Constructing and defining test scenarios and test data to ensure requirements are completely and accurately implemented.
• Implementation and post-go live support to ensure success of the developed solutions.
• Contributing to our internally built offerings as we build a collection of best-in-class solutions.
• Working 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

• Degree level qualification.
• Excellent problem solving skills and evidenced ability to break problems down into logical steps.
• Excellent organiser and evidenced ability to co-ordinate and deliver complex outcomes.
• Excellent communicator, both written and oral, to clearly communicate status, problems and requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Agile/ Flexible working.
• Professional training and accreditation.
• Central London location.

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

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.

Location:

You will be based in the NextWave London office; 100 Bishopsgate, however travel may be required for client based projects and some projects will be located fully at client office locations - usually in the City of London or Canary Wharf.