Senior Consultant - Financial Services

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity, and driven by responsibility. We help clients initiate, navigate, and benefit from transformation, believing optimism is a force multiplier to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With 3,000 consultants across 48 locations in 19 countries, our expertise spans more than 40 sectors and services, including strategy, business transformation, IT, and digital strategy.

Sia’s Financial Services Business Unit provides a comprehensive suite of core capabilities designed to address the evolving needs of financial institutions. We enable clients to navigate complex challenges, seize new opportunities, and achieve strategic objectives in an increasingly competitive and dynamic environment.

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join our Financial Services Consulting practice as a Forward Deployed Business Analyst (FDBA). This is not a traditional Business Analyst role. As an FDBA, you will be embedded with client teams to own business outcomes, leveraging data, analytics, and AI to deliver smarter solutions and meaningful transformation across financial services organizations. You will act as a strategic advisor, AI operator, and execution partner, using AI to eliminate administrative work and focus on enhanced decision-making, problem-solving, and solution design.

Responsibilities

• AI-Enabled Consulting Delivery: Apply traditional consulting tools and emerging AI-enabled platforms (no-code, low-code, automation, analytics) to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, prototyping, process mapping, and stakeholder alignment. Define agent responsibilities, decision boundaries, escalation paths, and human-in-the-loop controls to ensure safe, reliable, and compliant operation within financial services.
• Client Engagement & Delivery: Work directly with client business, operations, product, data, and technology teams to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, technical constraints, and desired business outcomes.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Assess current-state processes, systems, data flows, risks, and dependencies to identify root causes, evaluate business impacts, and design strategic initiatives (e.g., operating model transformation, system implementations, process optimization).
• Technical Business Analysis: Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process flows, data requirements, business rules, and solution documentation, bridging business stakeholders and technical teams with AI support.
• Solution Design & Implementation Support: Partner with product owners, engineers, architects, and data teams to support solution design, workflow optimization, integration planning, UAT, validation, and implementation readiness across front, middle, and back-office platforms.
• Workstream Ownership & Execution: Own assigned tasks and deliverables by managing timelines, tracking risks, issues, and dependencies, and proactively communicating progress to drive initiatives from analysis through execution.
• Client-Ready Communication & Deliverables: Prepare structured, polished materials, including presentations, executive summaries, business cases, impact assessments, process documentation, and stakeholder communications for internal and client audiences.
• Internal Firm Support: Contribute to proposals, business development, and thought leadership, sharing perspectives on digital, data, and AI trends within financial services.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, AI Engineering & Computing, Computer Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Relevant Experience: 3+ years of work experience in financial services demonstrating business problem-solving, analytical thinking, and professional communication. Experience leveraging AI tools for research, analysis, or deliverable development is valued; management consulting experience is preferred.
• AI-Enabled Technical Proficiency: Foundational ability to use AI/GenAI tools, prompt engineering, and modern productivity platforms to accelerate business analysis, requirements gathering, and documentation while applying responsible AI governance.
• Traditional Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, JIRA/Confluence, PowerBI/Tableau, and SQL for advanced data analysis, insights, and presentations.
• Consulting Skillset: Strong communication, analytical thinking, attention to detail, ownership, and teamwork. Ability to synthesize ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, and drive work in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
• Financial Services Knowledge: Foundational understanding of or demonstrated interest in financial services, including products, operations, regulatory requirements, technology, and business processes.

Pay

Base Salary: $112,000–$116,000. Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; company-paid life and AD&D; voluntary supplemental insurance and EAP
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting; HSA and FSA options
• College savings and student loan repayment programs
• Paid parental leave; generous PTO, nine company holidays, and one floating holiday
• Cell phone stipend; well-being and professional development programs

Benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.

Schedule

Sia values in-person collaboration. When serving clients, consultants may be required to work onsite at client locations based on engagement needs. Between client engagements, consultants are expected to work from a Sia office or approved coworking location at least three days per week. Candidates should reside within a reasonable commuting distance of a Sia office or approved coworking location.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout their employment. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.