Senior Consultant - Business Consulting PI - FS - CNS - BC - Mumbai

The opportunity

: Senior Consultant-FS-Business Consulting PI-CNS - BC - Marketing Sales & Service - Mumbai, Delhi

FS :

As a Senior Consultant in Payments team, you will be in a client facing role on strategy and operating model, transformation and implementation projects. You will combine domain expertise in payments with consulting skills to solve complex challenging problems in retail and commercial payments for financial institutions, payment system operators, payment service providers and fintechs.

• Key Responsibilities :
• Be responsible for assisting clients on various initiatives such as business strategy, operating model, business plans, market assessment, market entry, regulatory approvals, new product development, SOPs, campaign management, migration, gap analysis and process improvement, implementation, program management and others.
• Deliver exceptional client service by understanding engagement objectives, business needs, critical outcomes, and timelines.
• Builds positive and credible working relationships with client stakeholders.
• Be a single point of contact for a workstream / module of the engagement
• Actively participate in client workshops, discussions, and meetings
• Prepare high-quality deliverables / work-products for assigned workstream of the engagement in timely manner and inline with EY’s quality standards.
• Provide a recommendation that addresses the customer’s objectives, articulates the value proposition & eliminates obstacles. Map requirements with EY solutions to design a best fit approach.
• Lead program management activities including preparation of updates for SteerCo meetings, RAID logs, escalations and change management.
• Assist EY Partner / Director on preparation of sales collaterals such as RFP response, client proposals decks and pitch presentations
• Collaborate seamlessly with multiple EY teams on proposals and engagements
• Be up to date on recent developments in payments industry, including regulations and leverage that knowledge and insights for engagements and proposals
• Be a strong contributor to knowledge sharing efforts within the team and the firm as a whole, actively contribute to thought leadership publications.
• Coach junior team members and help in their areas of improvement
• Skills :
• In-depth understanding of payments ecosystem, especially retail payment systems in India
• Familiarity with regulatory compliance, business and operating models, and technology platforms
• Must be proficient one or more areas in payments and have ability to learn on the job to build expertise in other areas
• Structured thinking and problem-solving skills
• Detail oriented, data driven and analytical approach
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Excellent in building presentations under guidance of senior team members
• Time management and prioritization of important tasks
• Ability to quickly adapt to diverse ways of working across clients
• Ability to quickly understand new developments in payments sector and their implications
• Must Have :
• 3-6 years of experience business, product, or portfolio management roles across cards, merchant acquiring, real time payments and cross border payments.
• Full-time MBA from top-tier institution and good academic background.
• Experience at a top-tier consulting firm in the payments sector will be considered as a plus.
• Flexibility to adapt to fast changing environments and managing multiple clients
• Willingness to travel and deliver engagement from client locations, within and outside India

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach.

What we offer

With more than 200,000 clients, 300,000 people globally and 33,000 people in India, EY has become the strongest brand and the most attractive employer in our field, with market-leading growth over compete. Our people work side-by-side with market-leading entrepreneurs, game- changers, disruptors and visionaries. As an organisation, we are investing more time, technology and money, than ever before in skills and learning for our people. At EY, you will have a personalized Career Journey and also the chance to tap into the resources of our career frameworks to better know about your roles, skills and opportunities.

EY is equally committed to being an inclusive employer and we strive to achieve the right balance for our people - enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing our people to build their career as well as focus on their wellbeing.