Job Description

Senior Consultant Capital Markets Operations and Technology

Our Enterprise Operations & Risk practice empowers leading Capital Markets institutions to growth and gain a decisive edge by optimizing the mission-critical operations that fuel their business. With a sharp focus on front office and middle office execution, we partner with clients to streamline trade lifecycle management, enhance client onboarding, transform pricing and risk analytics, and improve regulatory reporting. Leveraging our deep domain expertise across trading, investment management, and risk functions, we help clients build resilient and agile operating models that accommodate rapid change, mitigate risk, and accelerate remediation. Our professionals deliver sustainable value across the organization, leverage emerging technology, impacting trading strategy, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, performance, and market reputation. Join us to shape the future of capital markets operations where technology, talent, and transformation converge.

Work you'll do:

• Serve as primary client contact or workstream lead on complex projects, liaise with client counterparts, and actively participate in discussions on project management and work delivery needs
• Lead the development of quality work products with throughout development lifecycle from initial conception to implementation
• Serve as subject matter advisor on client projects, including providing recommendations to improve or transform processes to gain efficiencies or scale or reduce risk for our clients
• Engage with industry participants on market trends, competitive activities, and topic-specific discussions impacting the industry, potentially including with clients, industry consortiums, or trade groups or committees
• Lead internal business development initiatives and sales opportunities, including the creation of external-facing industry perspectives, lead generation materials, or sales proposals
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize business, operational, regulatory, and technology risks as well as risk mitigation strategies for our clients
• Support and jointly own internal business initiatives, including the management of resources and project economics to meet business objectives with prescribed timeframes and within budgets
• Understand the impact of key technology trends and workforce changes impacting our clients through engagement with innovative and emergent technologies, including cloud computing, big data and analytics, process automation, artificial intelligence / machine learning, and other digital strategies

Qualifications:

Candidates will have exceptional records of professional achievement, experience working in a relevant financial services industry sector, and a demonstrated capacity and enthusiasm for self-paced development. Candidates will be expected to motivate others, build constructive relationships with clients and colleagues, and work both independently and as part of a team. Successful candidates will demonstrate an aptitude for complex problem-solving and analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively across a variety of strategic, operational, technological, and risk management matters.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or higher
• A minimum of 5+ years working in the financial services or consulting industry related to any of the following Financial Services/capital markets industries: investment banking, broker-dealer, prime brokerage, wealth management, or related technology service provider
• Ability to travel up to 75%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or in the future
• Strong working knowledge of a range of financial services and / or securities-related business models, products, and services particular to the applicable industry

Preferred qualifications:

• Direct hands-on experience with order management, trade capture, matching/confirmation, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, corporate actions, margin/financing, and collateral management
• In-depth understanding of financial services products; equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX, structured products, and alternative assets
• Familiarity with upcoming requirements and emerging industry trends such as 24x5 trading, treasury clearing, CSDR, settlement acceleration, and other global mandates
• Experience using, implementing, or supporting systems for trading, settlements, recordkeeping, compliance monitoring, regulatory reporting, risk or case management, operations, or data management
• Direct experience with process design and mapping, workflow development, user acceptance testing, data mapping, migration, visualization/ analytics, system configuration and testing, status monitoring and issue resolution
• Experience with risk management, controls design and oversight, compliance monitoring, and exception handling within capital markets operations
• Exposure to or previous work with major financial services regulators (e.g., SEC, FINRA, MSRB, FRB, OCC) or industry utilities (e.g., NSCC, Options Clearing Corporation)
• Candidates joining our firm should possess an entrepreneurial drive, intellectual curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking in addition to the qualifications below:
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to support or lead business proposal development and sales presentations
• Strong relationship management skills, particularly the ability to build constructive and product working relationships with clients and among Deloitte practitioners
• Strong project / program management skills, particularly possessing a strong work ethic, a commitment to excellence in work product delivery, and the ability to independently manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Advanced aptitude with Microsoft Office products, particularly Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio

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