Financial Service Senior Consultant - Wealth Management/Trading BA
Sia Partners
Accounting & Finance
Posted on Nov 20, 2025
Job description
Consulting Skills
- Client delivery as part of an on-site or remote project team, able to define the framework and structure of deliverables, carrying out the production of complex deliverables
- Manage the work, activities, and timelines of work for both their selves and their team, identifies priorities and workflows for interested parties
- Utilizing a higher-level understanding of methodological concepts, coaches teammates in preparing client deliverables utilizing tools like PowerPoint, Excel, Access, MS Project and Visio, designing key deliverables for projects and supporting other consultants in the production of their deliverables
- Present complex ideas, critical points and decisions required to team members and client contacts, including middle and top management
- Perform simple and complex research and business analysis to solve for customer business challenges/issues to present unique, tailored solutions utilizing both quantitative and qualitative data
- Manages internal team by promoting teamwork, motivate and help consultants to improve
- Demonstrate credibility and legitimacy with client, capable of challenging client approaches and provide new directions, allowing the customer to evolve and deepens relationship
- Defines the project framework and organization, managing one or different projects at a time, guarantees the follow-up of these assignments
- Provide status reporting of progress, dependencies, issues, risks, and overall program health
- Responsible for the work streams of a complex project and takes the lead on simple projects
- Maintain program sites as a repository for all project information
Business Expertise Skills
- Support the Wealth & Asset Management practice, thought leadership, and people development activities firmwide
- Lead business analysis workstreams for Wealth Management initiatives, guiding stakeholders through requirements definition, scope alignment, and solution design.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert across advisory, investment, and trading processes, providing strategic insights to enhance platforms and operational workflows.
- Conduct advanced requirements gathering, translating complex business needs into detailed user stories, functional specifications, and process maps.
- Drive project efforts related to trading workflows—including order entry, execution, allocations, settlement, and compliance—ensuring alignment across front, middle, and back-office teams.
- Facilitate workshops with product owners, advisors, traders, compliance, and technology teams to identify process gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Apply strong analytical skills to evaluate system impacts, perform gap and root-cause analyses, and recommend solutions that enhance performance and reduce risk.
- Lead UAT planning and execution, including test script development, scenario design, defect management, and user sign-off.
- Provide advisory guidance on regulatory considerations affecting Wealth Management and trading (e.g., suitability, best execution, trade surveillance).
- Oversee key project documentation, including BRDs, functional specifications, current-state and future-state architecture artifacts, and training materials.
- Partner closely with technology teams during design, development, and deployment to ensure solutions meet business intent and achieve desired outcomes.
- Manage cross-functional communication, status reporting, and risk/issue tracking, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
- Support data analysis and validation efforts using advanced tools (Excel, SQL, or BI platforms) to confirm accuracy of trade, portfolio, and client data.
- Mentor junior BAs and provide guidance on requirements methodology, industry best practices, and effective stakeholder management.