Principal Consultant

As a Principal Consultant working within our Corporate Strategy & Solutions (CSS) division, you will demonstrate your deep knowledge of consulting principles and the delivery of practical outcomes across multiple engagements and industries. You will work directly with Director and Managing Director-level leaders and clients, and as such, your ability to build and nurture meaningful relationships will be paramount to success.

You have a track record of facilitating and delivering consulting projects that produce commercially sound and practical results. Your strategic approach to problem solving will include quantitative analysis, financial modelling, hypothesis-based issue analysis and the use of a variety of strategic frameworks.

**CORPORATE STRATEGY & SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW**

Corporate Strategy & Solutions (CSS) empowers people to innovate and invest for a better future. We collaborate with partners across Macquarie and offer strategic advice to senior executives to solve complex problems and unlock value. We provide a range of services to solve high impact problems and collaborate closely with the business as ‘One Macquarie’ team while bringing independence and Group-wide perspectives.

CSS offers strategic advice and support to senior executives across the firm and drives cross-group initiatives. The team of approximately 20-25 consultants globally has broad consulting and operational experience - both at Macquarie, as well as at other top financial services and consulting firms.

Services offered include:

- **Strategy & business development** - We provide strategic advice at both Group and business unit level to help build sustainable value, including leading the Macquarie Group Annual Strategy
- **Corporate development **- We inform and support the structural evolution of the Group
- **Operating model** - We design and deliver operational change aligned to the business strategy
- **Digital & data** - We connect business need to technology, innovation and data-driven insight
- **Climate** - We work with businesses to identify, shape and deliver climate solutions
- **Special situations** - We help solve uncommon, complex problems of strategic importance

**CORPORATE STRATEGY & SOLUTIONS VALUE PROPOSITION**

CSS combines a strategic and operational approach with an understanding of Macquarie’s businesses and key stakeholders to develop enduring, profitable solutions. How we work is as important as what we work on.
- **Impact and drive **- We continuously push the thinking to drive tangible impact, even if that means challenging the status quo
- **Client & opportunity **- We bring a deep understanding of our client’s businesses and partner with them to uncover opportunity
- **Continuous learning** - We bring curiosity and a learning mindset to everything we do, learning from our successes, setbacks, each other, and external best practice
- **Collaboration **- We partner with our clients, leverage our network globally, and bring a ‘whole of CSS’ approach to unlock value
- **Flexibility** - We focus on outcomes and support flexibility as it is a key enabler for team productivity and engagement
- **Psychological safety** - We respect differences and strive to create a safe and inclusive environment where everyone can perform at their best.

CSS offers significant personal and professional development opportunities - you will join a high-calibre and global team from diverse backgrounds, including top-tier consulting firms and investment banks. We are a high performing team with a supportive and collaborative culture and shared principles on work / life balance. You will work closely with our businesses and senior leaders on a range of interesting and impactful projects that make a tangible difference to our clients and broader communities. A role in Macquarie Group’s Corporate Strategy & Solutions team offers long-term career progression through merit-based reward and promotion, as well as ability to gain global perspectives on projects or regional mobility opportunities.

**About Macquarie**:
A career at Macquarie means you’ll have the opportunity to develop and utilise new skills, explore interesting fields and do challenging work that will impact the lives of people around the world—whether it’s accelerating the green energy transition, helping sustain global food supplies, financing social housing projects or investing in essential infrastructure. At Macquarie, we’re empowering people to innovate and invest for a better future.

Our size and international presence means your work can take you anywhere—across business groups, disciplines, sectors and borders. With 19,200+ employees and offices in 34 markets around the world, we’re a truly global organisation.

You’ll be supported by a diverse team where the unique perspectives, ideas and experiences that all of our people bring are valued. You’ll be empowered to address unmet needs in our communities whilst advising and invest