Partner | Financial Services
Guidehouse
US - CA, Los Angeles
Full-Time
$5
OfficeExecutive
Job Family:
Risk & Regulatory Compliance Consulting
Travel Required:
Clearance Required:
What You Will Do:
Guidehouse is an advisory-led management and digital consulting firm serving the public and commercial markets in financial services, healthcare, sustainability, and national defense. Our mission is to help clients solve their most complex and important challenges. Our vision is to build relationships, advance knowledge, insight, and capacity to implement solutions that increase trust in society.
We act as partners with our clients and industry: we work together with clients to develop and implement measurable, meaningful, and sustainable improvements that position them, and their organizations, for success. We connect leading practices with deep industry insight: Our professionals leverage experience gained from work with the government and in commercial industry, bringing the insight, capabilities, and cultural acumen required to develop well thought-out, sustainable solutions.
The Commercial Financial Services practice works with financial industry leaders, including banks, life insurance companies, hedge funds, and nonbank financial institutions. With new competitors entering the marketplace, razor-thin margins, and shifting administration regulatory focus, financial companies are exploring new business models, grappling with modernizing their processes and technology to remain competitive.
Guidehouse offers a challenging high-profile career working closely with prestigious clients at senior levels to deliver real value. Guidehouse is a flourishing company built on trust, teamwork, and enthusiasm that values and respects its employees and clients.
As a Partner, you will be responsible for sustaining and growing Guidehouse’s relationships with regional banks in our west region. You will advise clients at the highest strategic level on both big-picture and tactical matters - showcasing how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes. You will collaborate with Delivery Partners and others to bring the best solutions to our clients that result in measured profitable sales for Guidehouse:
Risk, controls, and compliance
Security and operational risk management
Operational strategy and effectiveness
Data management and governance, big data, and analytics
Digital acceleration and transformation
Applications rationalization, cloud strategy, enterprise enablement
Managed services
This position will be responsible for:
Primary focus is to be a leader and build upon the power of Guidehouse’s unique assets in Financial Crimes, Risk and Compliance to drive unmatched value to client and firm
Recognized expert at strategizing, designing, marketing, and selling high-impact solutions while employing highly effective client relationship management
Thought leadership/knowledge capital development
Leadership in solutioning and selling across clients to secure profitable growth targets and ensure execution of client engagements
Client relationship management across client C Suite and their immediate support team to grow the Guidehouse Brand and reputation and to ensure profitable, high impact wins for client and firm
Leadership, mentoring and growth of more junior members of the Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets team, including recruitment
Solution development and marketing
Emphasis in developing and leading relationships with current and prospective clients – both externally and internally, establishing credibility and collaboration with senior Guidehouse colleagues to be recognized as a market leader.
Spearheading the development of key go-to-market strategies for existing and new Financial Services portfolio of offerings including new client development and existing client expansion with personal pursuit
Manage executive level relationships at your key clients to ensure that there are the optimal range of solutions to ultimately meet client needs as well as to maximize revenue generation and profitability of the firm.
Developing collaborative relationships with the other related specialty practices and non-specialty practices across the firm to cross-sell relevant products and services.
Playing a vital role in managing and developing team members in the Financial Services practice, as well as recruiting new team members as part of this strategic initiative to aggressively growing the Financial Services Segment
Evaluating internal control structures to help identify weaknesses and associated risks.
Developing, performing, and supervising detailed financial, economic and statistical analysis.
What You Will Need:
To be successful at Guidehouse, you will need be sales savvy and capable while at the same time have the substance and leadership experience in Banking/Payments required to catalyze sustainable growth for the Financial Services Segment and drive high valued digital payment solutions clients seek. You will oversee critical client and firm relationships to ensure maximum client value and maximum profitable, firm growth is achieved. The incoming Partner will have:
A passion and demonstrated track record in business development (8M+ credited annually), client management and year-of-year measurable results at Financial Services clients (specifically Commercial Banking) focused on Guidehouse type services
Bachelor’s Degree
A minimum of 15+ years of increasing responsibility in financial services industry and consulting combined with clear credibility in the industry as a transformation leader within the largest Commercial Financial Services clients. 5+ yrs. with heavy index directly to ‘Key Client’ P&L growth accountability.
Deep Banking/ Payment related experience, including a minimum of 5+ yrs. successful years in consulting
Demonstrated leadership experience within the Financial Crimes, Risk and Compliance consulting practice including Fraud, AML, and Remediation and Transformation Solutions
Broad content expertise in financial services transformation projects with a demonstrated ability to develop leaders that embrace change to get results.
Proven experience developing client relationships including current and prospective clients, ability to assess and define their needs, position relevant products and services to address their requirements and play a key role in securing new business for the firm
Proven ability to develop senior-level relationships across the Commercial Financial Services Ecosystem.
A high level of intelligence, strategic, analytical and conceptual skills; a practical approach to problem solving and business growth
Able to oversee large, complex, multi-work stream, client service delivery teams ($5M+) or manage multiple projects to ensure the highest quality consulting engagement deliverables
Outstanding written and oral communication skills including public speaking for large and small groups, the ability to leverage the written word in a clear, concise and compelling manner as a tool for communication and persuasion
Ability to travel up to 60%
What Would be Nice to Have:
Master's Degree
Several years of consulting experience in large, matrixed, consulting organizations (preferably with large IT presence)
Presence and credibility to successfully collaborate and work with Guidehouse’s own highly regarded business development team.
Intellectually adept with superior negotiation and influencing skills and ability to relate to range of senior level internal and external stakeholders.
High level of business acumen and commercial awareness.
Extremely driven, energetic, and able to thrive in a result-oriented, entrepreneurial, analytical environment.
Additional deep subject matter expertise in Technology Modernization preferred
The ideal candidate would be local to the Los Angeles metropolitan area
What We Offer:
Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.
Benefits include:
Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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