The Role: The purpose of this role is at a senior level, deliver a project end-to-end to the customer, starting with the customer engagement, analyzing the requirement, being part of the project resourcing and then ensuring that the team delivers according to the agreed specification. To architect solutions for clients in a specific industry/service lineSkills and Experience: Essential Qualifications:
- Degree in Business/IT (for example Business Science, BCom) &/or relevant specialist qualifications (example, Cyber Security)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Honours degree in Business/IT, &/or relevant specialist qualifications (example, Cyber Security)
- MBA
Function related experience: Consulting experience : 4 ?? 5 years (previous in house training and background in Consulting advantageous)Leading teams: 2 Years?? experienceOther experience:
- Effective Communication skills ?? both written and verbal
- Experience in design and building Finance and Budgeting Models
- Good analytical and troubleshooting ability
- Multiple industry experience
- Ability to work within a team and take the technical lead if required
- Business analysis and requirements gathering expertise as well as documenting a requirement
- Have the ability to delegate tasks to team members and lead large project teams
Key Accountabilities:
- Assisting in delivering the Advisory strategy/vision across the customer base
- Architecting an Advisory solution based on the customers?? requirements
- Ensure the BU is applying Advisory Best Practice across projects
- Requirements Gathering/Business Analysis (incl. writing proposals, project charters and quotations)
- Crafting/designing, and presenting a proposed solution to a customer
- Ensuring that Advisory methodologies are being adopted
- QA of work being delivered by peers and team members reporting to the senior consultant
- Have the ability to manage a medium team of consultants to deliver an Advisory solution
- Developing others through mentoring and presenting of Knowledge Sharing sessions
- May be required to present formal training courses to consultants and users
- Formulate project documentation templates
- Ensure that through the project lifecycle a customer is kept informed through good verbal and written communication
- Provide a pre-sales service to the account managers to present demos of tools and solutions
- Play an architect role in delivering a solution to a customer
- Take ownership and accountability in delivering the solution on-time and within budget
- We would expect a senior consultant to have expert knowledge of at least one of our core service offerings
- Assist in putting the right mix of skills together for a project team to ensure success
- Be in a position to comfortable influence others to work towards a common project goal/outcome (including delegation while remaining responsible)
- Contribute to the career growth of colleagues by encouraging development
- Give input into the Advisory strategy and approach to delivering solutions
- Be attuned to customer challenges or opportunities, where one can add value
Personality and Attributes:
- Achievement orientation, Concern for order, quality & accuracy, Continuous learning / information seeking, General knowledge, Initiative, Analytical thinking / analysis & judgement, Conceptual thinking, Client focus / client service orientation, Flexibility, Integrity
- Technical / Specialized Expertise
- Managerial / Leadership
- Communication skills