Senior Manager — Client Reporting

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is the leading consultancy to the asset and wealth management industry. Over the past 20 years, we have grown to become a team of 1,500 industry experts working across all of the major financial centres globally, partnering with 80 of the top 100 managers by AUM, and all of the top 20. We are proud that many of our team have established long and fulfilling careers with us, with many having stayed for well over a decade, playing central roles in building the business that we are today. 

We hope that you will join us to shape the next chapter of our growth story.

• →Leading delivery of our large programmes or workstreams, and owning the plan, the governance, the risks and the outcome
• →Designing the target state client reporting offering for our clients, and the processes and target operating models which can deliver it efficiently
• →Acting as the senior business-side lead on client reporting technology platform implementations such as Kurtosys, SimCorp, Vermillion, working closely with technology on design and sequencing
• →Running mixed teams of our people and client staff, which includes setting the quality standard, delegating properly, and developing the people below you
• →Handling the day-to-day relationship with client sponsors and senior stakeholders, including the difficult conversations
• →Acting as a sparring partner to the practice leadership on where our proposition should go, bringing your own ideas, arguing for them, and then building the ones that land
• →Coaching and mentoring the consultants around you, and taking a hand in how we hire and who we hire
• →Being restless about how the practice itself works, so what we should stop doing, what we should be better at and what we are missing

• Strong consulting experience is essential. We will also consider candidates whose experience has been genuinely consultative within industry, but the shape of that experience needs to be recognisable.
• Experience in asset management, wealth management, or a closely related area of financial services.
• A strong track record of leading large-scale change as a programme manager, lead project manager, or design lead, with clear ownership of delivery, governance, and outcomes.
• Experience of large technology-enabled transformation programmes, including design and strategic work at the front end, not only the execution.
• Strong people leadership experience, including managing teams and being accountable for the quality of their output.
• The confidence and credibility to operate independently with senior client stakeholders and lead discussions in senior forums.

• Experience developing or refining propositions, segment strategies, or service models.
• Experience supporting pitch processes, including defining team shapes, workplans and delivery approaches.