Risk & Compliance - Associate Manager

About the position

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We're optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes. Sia's Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy. A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. The Sia Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions.

Responsibilities

• Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables.
• Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both themselves and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties.
• Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coaches teammates in preparing client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables.
• Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management.
• Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Manages internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve.
• Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship.
• Defines the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments.
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health.
• Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects.
• Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information.
• Support practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide.
• Maintains a deep understanding of business concepts, issues and challenges and key knowledge to master a business expertise.
• Cultivate knowledge related to a specific business challenge, issue, or deepen understanding within a sector and function domain.
• Takes a leading role within internal firm knowledge-share activities and organizations, ensuring complete knowledge and competency transfer to other consultants.
• Be a thought leader for Compliance initiatives and help to guide the team's direction.
• Project manage and/or support on a range of client delivery, as part of an on-site or remote project team.
• Conduct effective meetings, liaising with Compliance, Operations/Management teams, and Data and technology teams.
• Collaborate with internal and client project team members, and contribute to internal communications and readiness activity within the program team and with client groups.
• Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health.
• Design and assist compliance systems and develop data requirements, working with Compliance teams.
• Use analysis to identify trends and opportunities for improvements and efficiencies across compliance programs and systems.
• Create and maintain documentation on pipelines, tools, and data sets to demonstrate program soundness.
• Write business proposals and presentations autonomously.
• Detect, trace, and qualify business opportunities.
• Relay information relevant to new business activities and prospects to manager, team, and business unit/line leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in Technology, Finance, Business Management, Mathematics, or a related field from an accredited college/university.
• 5 -7 years of recent client facing management consulting experience.
• Experienced in delivery of a wide range of risk and compliance, maintains deep understanding of the industry and its challenges.
• You possess strong client relationship development and client management skills.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) accompanied by strong interpersonal skills.
• Solid organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to know when to escalate and when not to.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Eagerness to be involved with internal initiatives and interest in guiding and leading.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting.

Benefits

• $126-132K + Annual Discretionary Bonus.
• Healthcare coverage that includes 3 medical plan options: Anthem - EPO HSA, EPO HSA MERP, and PPO; dental and vision through MetLife; and life insurance policies through Mutual of Omaha.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Paid Time Off.
• Parental leave paid at 100% of base pay for all new parents.
• 9 Company Holidays + 1 Floating Holiday.
• 401(k) Plan - 4% matching and vested on day 1.
• College save-up plan & college loan repayment plan.
• Monthly cell phone stipend.
• Pre-tax account for Parking and Mass Transit.
• Sia provides several wellness and incentive programs free of charge through the firm medical plan - Anthem - such as Gym Reimbursement, LiveHealth Online, Well-being Coach, Building Healthy Families Program, and much more.