Senior Consultant - Digital Assets Enterprise Strategy, Risk and Operating Model Design

About the role

Deloitte’s Digital Assets practice combines the competencies of risk management, regulation, technology, and cryptography to help organizations address challenges in an integrated manner. Our team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine enterprise-wide digital asset strategies, including defining value propositions, identifying use cases, prioritizing roadmaps, and outlining investment requirements.
• Assess new and emerging digital asset technologies, and design mitigation strategies for related emerging risks.
• Stand up new business and finance capabilities to engage with the digital asset ecosystem, including designing target-state operating models that encompass organization structure, governance, processes, roles, skills, and performance measures.
• Build and validate business cases for digital asset initiatives, including financial modeling, risk assessment, and scenario analysis.
• Research, collaborate, and report on risks and mitigating factors associated with various digital asset ecosystems.
• Support client engagement teams in business and operational model considerations as well as assessing risk of digital asset ecosystems, covering compliance, regulatory, BSA/AML, cyber, operational, blockchain, and financial risks.
• Identify strategic risks and opportunities in the digital asset ecosystem based on industry insights, latest academic research, and exchange with colleagues.
• Educate clients and internal teams on digital assets and operating model leading practices.
• Prepare technical documentation and diagrams for digital assets, contributing to guidance on private key management, smart contract platforms, multi-signature/MPC, privacy coins, protocol governance, proof-of-work, and proof-of-stake consensus models.
• Provide risk and regulatory advisory support in defining and reviewing business models.
• Design and deploy business and finance process changes and risk-mitigating controls to enable digital-asset-specific capabilities.
• Facilitate use of technology-based tools or methodologies to analyze public blockchain data.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of client’s business environments, risk management approaches, market trends, competitor activities, and Deloitte’s products and service lines.

Requirements

Candidates will have exceptional records of professional achievement, experience working in a relevant financial services industry sector, and a demonstrated capacity and enthusiasm for self-paced development. Candidates will be expected to motivate others, build constructive relationships with clients and colleagues, and work both independently and as part of a team. Successful candidates will demonstrate an aptitude for complex problem-solving and analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively across a variety of strategic, operational, technological, and risk management matters.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field (e.g., Finance, Business, Computer Science, or related discipline).
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in financial services, consulting, or digital asset strategy, with direct involvement in developing and refining enterprise-wide digital asset strategies, including value propositions, use cases, roadmap prioritization, and investment requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to design target-state operating models for digital asset initiatives, encompassing organization structure, governance, processes, roles, skills, and performance measures.
• Proven experience building and validating business cases for digital asset projects, including financial modeling, risk assessment, and scenario analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks and opportunities in emerging digital asset ecosystems.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to prepare technical documentation and educate stakeholders on digital assets and operating model leading practices.
• Ability to travel up to 75% based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others.