Principal

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Oliver Wyman Group Full time

Principal – Non-Financial Risk, Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance

Who we are:

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 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 more than 5,000 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 wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies [NYSE: MMC]. Twitter @OliverWyman.

To find out more about us, please visit here.

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.

Job Specification

Practice Group: Financial Services

Area/specialty: Non-Financial Risk, Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Platform

Location: Sydney/Melbourne

Role: Principal

Finance & Risk Practice Group Overview

Oliver Wyman is shaping the future of the financial services industry by helping the world's top financial institutions address their most significant issues. We have an unparalleled understanding of the evolving market structures, economics, and strategic and regulatory trends across all segments of the financial services sector. Our distinct approach is characterized by deep specialization and rigorous fact-based analysis.

The Finance and Risk Practice, part of our Financial Services Group, is seeking Engagement Managers and Principals to support and contribute to our continued business growth. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a successful team that is a strategic priority for the firm. Oliver Wyman's Finance and Risk practice is the leading strategic risk management consultancy, engaged to solve the most challenging problems at the largest and most complex global financial institutions. Within our Finance and Risk practice Non-Financial Risk, Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance is one of our fastest growing platforms.

We advise clients in the financial services sector to adapt their risk and compliance management strategies to continuously evolving market dynamics, emerging risks, and rising regulatory expectations. Our projects focus on issues at the top of the C-suite (in particular the CEO, CRO, Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Anti-Financial Crime) and Board agendas and span a wide spectrum of disciplines. Our recent projects have covered topics including:

  • Risk-appetite design
  • End-to-end transformations and maturity uplifts
  • Financial crime and compliance framework and organizational design, analytics, and process enhancement
  • Non-financial risk and Financial Crime Compliance models (Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Fraud, rogue trading, etc.)
  • Non-financial risk measurement and management, including third party risk management, fraud, and cyber risk
  • Non-financial risk awareness and training

For more information about our Practice, please visit the Risk Management for Financial Services page.

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
  • Energy and Natural Resources 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

Equal Opportunity

Marsh and McLennan is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people regardless of their sex/gender, marital or parental status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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