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About Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 6,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC].

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What makes us a great place to work

As part of our global, entrepreneurial team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll do meaningful work from day one. We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for individuals who challenge the norm, and constantly strive to build something new for the firm and the world around us. With our careers, there\'s no "one size fits all." We hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, extensive training curriculums, and no artificial barriers to advancement. We work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where creativity and ideation meet efficiency and implementation. We invite you to bring your full, authentic self to work. Enjoy collaborating with diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don\xe2\x80\x99t take themselves too seriously.

Practice overview

Oliver Wyman\'s Financial Services practice helps the world\'s leading financial institutions address their most significant challenges to shape the future of the industry. We have an unparalleled understanding of the evolving market structures, economics, and strategic and regulatory trends across all segments of the financial services sector. Our distinct approach is characterized by deep specialization and rigorous fact-based analysis.

To support its ongoing growth, Oliver Wyman is seeking extraordinary individuals with deep expertise in finance and experience in team management to become Principals in its Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) Practice. This is an industry leading practice with clients containing the majority of Top Tier Investment Banks.

The CIB Practice advises senior executives in investment banking, capital markets, large corporate banking, asset management, hedge funds and exchanges on a wide range of strategy issues. Macro- and micro-analyses are combined to provide a unique perspective on these evolving businesses. Oliver Wyman is widely recognized as an influential thought-leader in the commercial and institutional banking segment. Drawing on our deep knowledge of our clients\xe2\x80\x99 businesses, as well as our own in-depth industry research and analysis, we focus on developing sustainable strategies for our clients to support their businesses in their ongoing evolution.

What you will do

Principals are experts in particular content areas and provide day-to-day leadership of complex client projects and aspects of the client relationship and commercial process, teaming with Partners. They ensure on-time delivery that meets or exceeds agreed upon goals, leveraging Oliver Wyman best practice, their own expertise and the firm\xe2\x80\x99s technical competence. They become trusted advisors to senior clients, with the ability to guide and influence their thinking, and to be viewed as experts in particular content areas.

Oliver Wyman Principals are seen as Partners of the future and, as such, are fully engaged in building business through identifying new and expanded opportunities; they create exciting and additive intellectual capital through thought leadership and are knowledgeable on a broad range of adjacent topics. Principals develop others and build a strong personal brand both within and outside the firm.

• Managing the execution of individual project modules. This typically includes developing hypotheses, managing data collection, model creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, creatively tackling information limitations, and surfacing insights.
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality case execution
• Owning and developing executive client relationships, presenting to a wide range of audiences, and working day-to-day with clients and other stakeholders.
• Managing and developing the capabilities of junior consulting staff.

What you will bring:

The Principal position offers excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals with significant prior experience.

• A minimum of 8-10 years, ideally with a top-tier investment bank, strategy consulting firm or project-based, team-oriented environments.
• Track record of leading and managing teams or work streams and delivering against tight deadlines in fast paced and demanding environments
• Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills
• Financial services industry knowledge, breadth across or depth within one of our practice areas is preferred.
• Ability to apply content knowledge for thought leadership in project execution, develop new intellectual capital to support business development activities, and for Manager and Principal hires to lead these activities
• Outstanding communication skills; confidence in presenting to senior executives
• Undergraduate and/or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to travel

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation & performance-based bonuses
• 25 days of vacation leave, plus recharge days and free time
• Support for flexible working arrangements and hybrid working models
• Commitment to work life balance through various wellbeing initiatives
• Employee assistant program with access to free counselling and wellbeing coaching
• Extensive learning and development programs
• Inclusive and diverse workplace culture with various employee resource group

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