Kaiser Associates

Manager, Strategy Consulting, Financial Services & Payments

Washington, DC
Full Time
Financial Services & Payments
Mid Level
Are you passionate about business? Yearning for professional growth and an opportunity to accelerate your career? Energized by cutting-edge research, delivering projects, and solving difficult problems for C-suite executives at the world’s most admired corporations? If yes, Kaiser Associates is the place for you! 

Kaiser Associates is a global growth consulting firm that translates original insights into strategy for ambitious organizations around the world.

For more than 40 years, our “industry insider” approach to bespoke research has supported clients in a focused group of specialized markets and disciplines.  Armed with this intelligence that is simply unavailable elsewhere, our analysts can craft practical, agile, and actionable strategies that allow clients to make some really bold decisions.  With great confidence.
With offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and London and a strong focus in strategy, we offer our consultants development opportunities, accessible senior leadership, and minimal travel. We specialize in Consumer & Retail, Financial Services & Payments, Healthcare, Industrials, Private Equity and M&A, and TMT.

About the Practice:
Our Financial Services & Payments practice has been serving the world’s pre-eminent financial institutions on matters of corporate strategy, growth, and economic profitability for 30 years. Over this time we have built a reputation of trust among our clients, many of which have substantive, meaningful relationships with Kaiser spanning 10 years or more. Working on issues of global scope and unrivaled complexity has earned our Financial Services team a reputation of profound domain knowledge, which spans the full breadth of the payments ecosystem, and global insights gathered through on-the-ground research.

Responsibilities:  
  • Provide project management, project delivery and stakeholder management support in the context of complex, fast-paced assignments
  • Structure and manage project work from start to finish, including team oversight and management of client deliverables
  • Help structure analyses, organize research and data gathering efforts and provide quality assurance across the content development lifecycle
  • Lead small, high-performing teams of consultants, providing direction and coaching to help the team complete research efficiently and effectively, apply appropriate strategic and financial analyses, and successfully address the client’s key questions
  • Proactive management of engagement economics, timelines, and issue resolution
  • Serve as a key point of contact between the team, senior officers of the firm, and clients
  • Coach and support the professional development of team members in the process of case work, as well as through dedicated learning and development efforts
  • Develop and bring thought leadership forward for business development purposes with existing and new clients

Required Qualifications:  
  • 4+ years of experience within a strategy consulting firm with 1+ years of experience at the consulting manager level
  • Demonstrated track record in delivering financial payments strategy
  • MBA degree preferred; undergraduate degree required
  • Demonstrated experience successfully leading workstreams and small, high-performing teams
  • Proven ability managing and delivering data-intensive assignments – market sizing, economic/econometric analysis, pricing and statistical analysis
  • Experience managing high-performing teams, client stakeholders and effective upward- and downward management style
  • Track record as an analytical problem solver capable of breaking down diverse business problems into solvable pieces and synthesizing facts into actionable insights
  • Creative, “big picture” thinking while maintaining keen attention to detail
  • Ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple tasks (client management, project management, team management, firm leadership)
  • Ability to communicate complex ideas
  • Foreign language skills preferred, but not required
  • Advanced MS Office computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to leverage your strategic expertise and work in a growing firm with a clear path to Partner, we encourage you to apply.

Kaiser Associates provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees.  The Company does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, religion or belief, race (including color, nationality, ethnic or national origin), disability or age, pregnancy or maternity (referred to as “protected characteristics”), or any other basis protected by law.
Actual compensation is determined based on specific job level at time of hire. 
 
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