Oliver Wyman - Principal – Private Capital, Singapore

Company:

Description:

Who we are

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation.

The firm has 7,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC].

For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on X @OliverWyman.

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What makes us a great place to work

As part of our global, entrepreneurial team, you’ll do meaningful work from day one. We’re looking for individuals who challenge the norm, and constantly strive to build something new for the firm and the world around us. With our careers, there's no "one size fits all." We hire exceptional people and help them thrive through a built-in support network, flexible career paths, extensive training curriculums, and no artificial barriers to advancement. We invite you to bring your full, authentic self to work. Enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don’t take themselves too seriously.

Practice Overview:                    

Private Capital is a specialized capability within the Oliver Wyman consulting business. It helps our clients achieve amazing results, both on deals and post-transaction. We serve private equity firms and their portfolio companies with a focus on delivering a differentiated return on investment across the investment cycle. We also support Corporations with mergers and acquisitions by providing value through all the transaction stages: opportunity identification and valuation, project management office (PMO), negotiation support and sale process management. Our team works across industry sectors spanning Infrastructure, Financial Services, Telco, Transportation, Consumer, Technology, Business Services and many others.

We are searching for highly qualified Principal candidates, for strategy consulting roles working broadly across financial services for our business and are looking for candidates with relevant work experience preferably in Financial Services and/or Management consulting. Experience could be from working at financial institutions or supporting them in consulting capacity.   

What you will do:

Principals are experts in particular content areas and provide day-to-day leadership of complex client projects and aspects of the client relationship and commercial process, teaming with Partners. They ensure on-time delivery that meets or exceeds agreed upon goals, leveraging Oliver Wyman best practice, their own expertise and the firm’s technical competence. They become trusted advisors to senior clients, with the ability to guide and influence their thinking, and to be viewed as experts in particular content areas.

Oliver Wyman Principals are seen as Partners of the future and, as such, are fully engaged in building business through identifying new and expanded opportunities; they create exciting and additive intellectual capital through thought leadership and are knowledgeable on a broad range of adjacent topics. Principals develop others and build a strong personal brand both within and outside the firm.

• Managing the execution of individual project modules. This typically includes developing hypotheses, managing data collection, model creation and analyses, conducting primary and secondary research, creatively tackling information limitations, and surfacing insights.
• Supporting our Partner group in project delivery through accurate and high-quality case execution
• Owning and developing executive client relationships, presenting to a wide range of audiences, and working day-to-day with clients and other stakeholders.
• For Manager hires, managing and developing the capabilities of junior consulting staff.

What you will bring:

The Principal position offers excellent career and growth opportunities for talented, highly motivated professionals with significant prior experience.

• A minimum of 7-10 years, ideally with a top-tier strategy consulting firm or project-based, team-oriented environments.
• Track record of leading and managing teams or work streams and delivering against tight deadlines in fast paced and demanding environments
• Strong background in strategic problem solving with demonstrable analytical skills
• Financial services industry knowledge, breadth across or depth within one of our practice areas is preferred.
• Ability to apply content knowledge for thought leadership in project execution, develop new intellectual capital to support business development activities, and for Manager and Principal hires to lead these activities
• Outstanding communication skills; confidence in presenting to senior executives
• Undergraduate and/or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to travel