Director, Financial Services Wealth Lead - Consulting

Job details

Location: London, Edinburgh

Capability: Consulting

Experience Level: Director

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Customer, Ops & Infr

Contract type: Permanent

KPMG are continuing to develop and grow their Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investments practice and are seeking to appoint Directors to support the ambition of quadrupling the size of the practice over the next three financial years.

The Role

You will be playing a crucial role in helping to drive growth in the Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investments sector.

Working closely with the Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investments leadership team to drive growth in the consulting practice, you will be responsible for the sale and delivery of consulting assignments and managed services to a range of firms, predominantly Wealth Managers, Life and Pensions companies, platform businesses, IFA Networks and firms that provide support and outsource services to the Wealth Management industry.

You will lead and deliver consulting engagements for Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investment clients, as well as supporting the wider Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investments Consulting team.

Managing relationships with senior clients, you will be responsible for growing and commercialising your c-suite and ‘heads of’ relationships across the industry as well as driving the development of our brand and presence in the market.

As part of the role, you will be responsible for identifying opportunities, developing relationships and furthering revenue streams from clients. You will leverage and develop your own network as well as developing relationships with clients to understand their issues and, from that, develop solutions and add value.

Working closely with the Insurance and Asset Management Sector teams and all FS Consulting Partners, you will ensure that the team optimises the ability to help clients and identifies opportunities for KPMG.

The Person

• You will have a proven track record of running large scale transformation programmes with multi-disciplined teams within the Wealth, Pensions and Retail Investment industry
• Significant experience in offering strategic advice around areas of change including; digital transformation, regulatory change, re-platforming, client experience augmentation, organisational re-design, target operating model design and programme delivery.
• Experience in developing, mentoring and supporting junior staff and teams. You will take a lead role in developing consulting skills amongst team members who have been hired for their industry experience who have limited consulting experience.
• Ideally, candidates will have experience in operating in complex global organisations and interfacing with multiple stakeholders with sometimes differing objectives.

KPMG Overview

KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues we bring our creativity, insight and experience to solve our clients’ and communities’ biggest problems. We’ve been doing this for more than 150 years.

We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.

Why Consulting at KPMG?

Technology is a critical focus for us. It underpins everything we do. We're investing in technology like never before – not least because the pace of technological change is disrupting organisations in new and challenging ways. Through advanced data analytics and emerging tech-enabled solutions like AI and machine learning, we're helping clients across diverse sectors to navigate that change. We enable them to avoid any unnecessary risks and to uncover new, transformative opportunities that could give them a competitive edge. A career here means stretching your skills and honing your expertise by solving complex problems as part of a collaborative, results-driven and supportive team. Whether we're helping our clients to reduce their costs, make better decisions, improve efficiencies or deploy the latest technologies, we bring together broad specialisms and talents to deliver robust, connected solutions.