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Senior Consultant, Investment & Wealth Management, Technology & Transformation, Engineering

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Connect to your Industry

Deloitte provide premium quality and test engineering services to a wide range of global clients, solving the most complex testing challenges on their most significant and highest profile IT change programmes. Our team has grown rapidly over recent years, and continues to do so, combining a wealth of deep industry knowledge with both business advisory experience and technical expertise.

Our proposition differs from our competitors as we are not purely delivery focused, we pride ourselves on providing a more consultative and strategic approach to quality engineering which results in our clients experiencing a premium service and gaining higher value outcomes.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

Want to work with the latest technologies, as part of a team helping international organisations transform their core business capabilities? Whether you're working with on-premise systems, Cloud technology, or custom-developed solutions (to name just a few), your expertise will help clients deliver continuous improvement and innovation, from initial design right through to implementation and optimisation.

As part of this role you will be responsible for helping our Investment & Wealth Management clients to identify and implement the most appropriate and efficient testing solutions for their needs, drawing upon our wide range of expertise and experience. You will have opportunity to work with a range of top tier clients providing high quality test advisory and delivery services. This an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly growing team that has a unique position in the test consultancy market.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Executing testing for large and complex investment and wealth management transformation programme
  • Providing advice to clients on testing toolsets and leveraging them effectively on engagements
  • Reviewing test practices and processes and coaching the team on improvement opportunities
  • Working closely alongside key stakeholders at the client, building strong and trusted relationships
  • Supporting the development of client bids and proposals

Connect to your skills and professional experience

To qualify for the role Senior Consultants must have:

  • Investment or wealth management industry expertise gained in complex client-facing environments, ideally with exposure to the CRD or FNZ technology suites
  • Experience in some or all of; functional system testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing and non-functional testing including test automation
  • A strong awareness of the role that testing tools play in the software development lifecycle, the types of tools available and ability to assess when it is appropriate and useful to apply them
  • ISTQB certified (or equivalent)
  • Test management tool expertise (e.g Xray for Jira, Zephyr, ALM)
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Proven technical ability combined with strong business acumen
  • Acute attention to detail
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment
  • Strong academic record

Additional desirable experience includes:

  • A proven track record in a top tier consultancy
  • Exposure to Investment Management & Wealth industry platforms such as State Street CRD, BlackRock Aladdin, Avaloq, FNZ and Sonata
  • Exposure to test automation tools
  • Ability to design and implement test automation frameworks
  • ISTQB Certified Agile Tester qualification
  • Experience in administering a test management tool (e.g. ALM, Xray for Jira, Zephyr)

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Engineering, AI and Data

We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients' organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"It is really great to work for a company which is so highly respected and has great ambition to grow; we get to grow with it." - Peta, Technology & Transformation

"I am constantly surrounded by smart and innovative people. Deloitte has an obvious strategic focus on products and innovation so there are tremendous opportunities here." - Nia, Technology & Transformation

"Joining Deloitte, it's an opportunity to work with some of the biggest names in the world and do all sorts of different things. We get asked to solve some of the most complex and challenging issues these organisations face." - Greg, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK locations with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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Senior Consultant, Investment & Wealth Management, Technology & Transformation, Engineering

Deloitte
Edinburgh, UK
Full-Time

Published on 22/10/2024

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