Director - Asset Management

Alvarez & Marsal’s Financial Services Industry group partners with financial services firms and private investors to drive results, create value and unlock business opportunities at every stage of their growth strategies. Through deals, disruption, and distress solutions, we join forces with clients to catalyze growth and profitability, navigate the complex industry challenges, and harness rapid technological changes that drive market advantage.

We provide end-to-end portfolio and M&A services; deliver innovation, revenue growth and efficiency through business transformation; and execute rapid solutions to turn around businesses. Clients can expect bottom line results through action-oriented leadership and success-aligned fee arrangements, delivered by our global team of turnaround experts, industry operators, digital leaders, and regulatory specialists.

You are :

A respected leader and a trusted advisor to clients within the Asset Management industry ecosystem (Investment Products and Solutions, Public and Private markets, Front / Middle / Back Operations and Technology Platforms, Risk and Regulatory). You are excited to leverage your experience to transform Financial Services organizations; working across the C-suite to capitalize on disruption, enable competitiveness, and drive growth and profitability via continuous innovation.

The work :

• Lead the day-to-day execution of consulting projects and ensuring successful delivery of client requirements within the scope of the engagement, including :
• Own the project planning and process management and communicating progress to clients and A&M leadership.
• Drive development of the content, either directly or by providing guidance to the consulting team (for example, by sharing ideas, frameworks or providing input on research and analysis).
• Manage the client relationship on a day-to-day basis.
• Managing project scope and maintaining an acceptable pace of work.
• Manage multiple client and stakeholder relationships and networking within the client organization in order to understand their needs and help to influence the client agenda.
• Leading senior client presentations and meetings.
• Lead and contribute to other A&M projects, for example by sharing expertise or best practices.
• Contribute to the development of intellectual property within the Financial Services Industry including improving methodologies, tools, techniques and developing new ideas and approaches.
• Contribute to business development efforts, including preparation of proposal documents, and attending pitch presentations.
• Engage with Asset Management macro industry trends, competitive dynamics and disruptors (fintech, digital, AI, etc.) to generate thought leadership and innovative new ideas to respond to evolving industry challenges.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to Managers, Consultants and Analysts to help develop their consulting skills, including sharing knowledge and experience, giving frequent feedback, and creating opportunities for team members to learn and grow.

Here’s what you need :

Outstanding problem-solving acumen leveraging strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills; proven ability to derive insights from large volumes of unstructured information to solve complex, ambiguous problems.

Proven experience leading projects and / or teams.

Exceptional Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel skills.

Bachelor’s Degree.

You’re a pro when it comes to engagement – plus business, practice, and people development.

Good leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.

You’ve got an MBA after your name or another type of advanced degree.

Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

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