Oliver Wyman Celent - Analyst/Senior Analyst, Risk - New York or Boston

ABOUT CELENT

Celent is a division of Oliver Wyman, and one of the world’s leading financial services technology research and advisory firms. For over 20 years, Celent has helped senior executives make confident decisions around their technology strategies to execute at scale. We offer objective advice and clarity, backed by a database of thousands of solutions and award-winning global best practice use cases. With real-life domain expertise, Celent also guides clients through the maze of emerging tech in the pursuit of value.

Our clients are a mix of the world's top financial institutions, technology solutions providers, consulting firms, and private equity firms spread over 30 countries.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a thoughtful and ambitious individual to join the fast-growing Risk team as a Senior Analyst. The team develops the research agenda, publishes reports and thought leadership, and provides advice to business and technology executives at banks, insurers and wealth management firms, as well as the technology companies that operate in the risk space.

You will be a key contributor to driving growth of the Risk practice and will have the opportunity to bring your creative ideas and build a reputation as an expert in the Risk Management space. The role entails developing, writing and delivering research, client advisory and consulting services, as well as actively promoting the Celent brand as well as your own.

Research: Conduct leading-edge research and publish insightful content focused on technology trends in risk management and implications for financial institutions. This includes:

• Identifying and monitoring key market trends and analyzing market structure
• Understanding how emerging technologies deliver strategic advantage
• Profiling established technology and Regtech solutions
• Analyzing and defining best practices in how FIs deploy risk technologies
• Developing a point of view on how risk technologies will evolve

You will build this knowledge by conducting primary and secondary research, including market interviews, surveys, and briefings.

Client Advisory and Consulting Services: Work directly with our clients to address specific strategic issues where technology has a significant impact. This includes regular discussions and interactions with Celent research clients, as well as short, high-impact strategy consulting engagements, such as technology strategy workshops, solution due diligence, market entry/expansion strategy, or bespoke primary research.

Personal and Celent Brand Promotion: Develop a high personal profile and strengthen the company brand in your domain of expertise. This includes publishing research reports, preparing and delivering engaging thought leadership presentations, such as client webinars and public speaking at conferences and industry events.

Your Attributes and Experience:

We are looking for a candidate who has a passion for understanding the business value of risk management technology across financial services. In addition, we seek a person with a keen interest in how the segment and technology-led innovations will evolve over the next few years and beyond while maintaining a grounded and pragmatic perspective on what’s possible.

The candidate should enjoy research, both desk research and interview-based research, and writing. The person should be comfortable with and capable of building trusted relationships with clients who are often senior executives.

We anticipate that candidates with experience in strategy, consulting, IT architecture, and/or project/product management, especially digital transformation, will excel in this role.

Knowledge and Expertise:

• A working knowledge of Risk Management and the role technology plays in shaping it, especially:
  • How technologies such as AI, Cloud or low/ no code development help deliver digital transformation
  • Technology environments within Financial Services firms, including how FIs manage data.
  • A keen interest in understanding emerging technologies and Regtech innovations.
• Familiarity with the offerings, market, client base and organization of a bank, insurer or wealth management firm
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills both written and oral, including ability to structure content and deliver clear messages in different formats (e.g., Word-based report vs PowerPoint presentation vs video, etc.)
• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to learn about and master new areas.
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative approach to working in a global, culturally diverse environment.
• Ability to self-motivate and work independently.

Academic background:

• Excellent academic credentials from a top university.

Professional experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in a management consulting firm, or research & advisory firm in a strategy, research, or consulting role.
• 5+ years’ experience in a top financial institution with some responsibility for offering strategy, technology strategy or product management.

Location:

• New York or Boston

What you can expect from Celent:

• An intellectually stimulating working environment with opportunities to shape and lead the research agenda in your respective coverage area.
• Competitive compensation, including base salary, performance-based annual bonus, and an excellent benefits package.
• Nimbleness of a small entrepreneurial firm, while being part of a bigger Oliver Wyman and Marsh McLennan family, with opportunities for personal development and growth.
• Flexible location (see above).

Our Values and Culture:

We’re serious about making Celent and Oliver Wyman a rewarding, enjoyable, and balanced place to work.

Rewarding work
We’ve worked hard to earn our reputation for high quality work. That reputation allows us to work with major brands at all levels on incredibly exciting projects. Combine that with Oliver Wyman’s status as one of the Fortune 100 “Best Companies to Work For”, and you get a rewarding combination of challenge, support and recognition.

Working as part of our global, entrepreneurial company, 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.

Ambition

We intend to build the strongest industry research firm globally. We are individuals who are self-starting, motivated, energetic, entrepreneurial about what we do. We have the common aspiration to have an impact, leave a legacy and change the world. We have no interest in running a steady-state business. We want to build, grow, and shape the environment around us.

Progressive employment

We want you to bring your authentic self and enjoy working alongside diverse and down-to-earth colleagues who do serious work, but don't take themselves too seriously.

Enjoyable days

We want our team members to build a career here—and to be happy. That makes us serious about caring for, mentoring, developing and sponsoring each other. This commitment also leads to opportunities for social impact and community work on company time.

Balanced lives

Our work is demanding, and we want you to have the best work-life balance you can.

We’ll work with you to accommodate your personal life with flexible hours.

Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.

Our commitment to diversity is genuine, deep, and growing. We’re not perfect, but we’re working hard right now to make our teams balanced, representative and diverse.

About Oliver Wyman

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 more than 6,000 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].