Advisory Services: Business Consulting - Consultant / Senior Consultant

Grant Thornton is a global leader in Finance Transformation, Outsourcing, Insourcing and Shared Service Centres. We are seeking talented, skilled and experienced individuals who can contribute to our success in Finance Transformation.

Job purpose:

Our Finance Transformation team helps clients across a dynamic range of industries transform every aspect of their operations to deliver dramatic improvements in efficiency, productivity, quality and flexibility thorough analyses and practical recommendations. We incorporate our knowledge, skills and abilities to help top management strategically plan and implement by providing distinctive support to ensure our clients realise the full benefits of recommendations that sustain long-term results.

Key differentiators in Grant Thornton’s engagements are: commitment to the client experience, operational and service excellence, management excellence and a culture of continuous improvement and training.

Accountabilities/Major Responsibilities:

• Perform research as assigned.
• Support the preparation of proposals to prospective clients.
• Support flowchart and report preparation, present and draft executive summaries.
• Formulate meeting minutes.
• Contribute to the evaluation of current processes to identify opportunities to eliminate non/low-value added work, automate or streamline value-added work to increase efficiencies or source work to optimise the capacity of staff and scalability of the operating model.
• Facilitate process goal-setting to determine the degree of change required and align an appropriate method for process improvement.

Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s degree(s) in Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.
• Previous experience working in management consulting services is highly advantageous.
• New graduate highly motivated to learn a new frontier, flexible and willing to take challenges in a dynamic environment with enthusiasm.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with clients individually and as a member of an engagement team.
• Ability to work independently or with a team
• Competence in developing presentations required (MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)).
• Highly motivated and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy and demanding team-oriented environment (both with clients and within the organization).
• Desire to work in an information systems environment.
• Strong desire to work in the management consulting industry and deep interest in the financial services industry.

Key Competencies

• Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to work under pressure and can work independently.
• Detail-oriented, analytical thinking, assertive, influential.
• Time-management.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Able to think logically and out of the box.
• Flexibility and information seeking.
• Objectivity, accuracy, patience, meticulous attention to detail, goal-orientation and quality output.