Oliver Wyman, Celent - Senior Analyst, Capital Markets

at  Oliver Wyman Group

ABOUT CELENT

Celent, a division of Oliver Wyman, is and one of the world’s leading international research and advisory firms. We exist to deliver actionable insight to our clients relating to how emerging technologies are positioned to disrupt the financial services sector, influencing the creation of new propositions and business models. Our clients are an eclectic mix of the world’s top financial institutions, market infrastructure providers, technology solution providers and market advisors spread over 30 countries. The Capital Markets Team focuses on the impact of emerging technology and the technology solution landscapes across the wholesale capital markets ecosystem (buy side, sell side, financial market infrastructures).
Our goal is to educate and inform our clients about the amazing benefits of this technology and how they can deploy them for advantage.
We do this through delivering a range of services, including primary research (delivered in report or other formats), data collection, a knowledgebase, a digital toolset (VendorMatch). We have a subscription-based business model offering published research and data, and a retained advice model that provides access to our team, and short high-impact consulting (technology strategy, system selection, voice of customer, thought leadership, etc.).

YOUR ATTRIBUTES AND EXPERIENCE

We are looking for someone passionate about helping clients understand the business value of emerging technologies / fintech across the Capital Markets sector, with a keen interest in how market structure, regulations and technology-led innovations will evolve over the next few years. You will need to maintain an optimistic but grounded and pragmatic perspective on what’s possible. Experience in the following roles related to post trade/operations are helpful: strategy, architecture, business analysis, change/project management, department head, research analyst.
The candidate should possess and be comfortable with building trusted relationships with post trade executives from Financial Institutions on the buy and sell side or Financial Market Infrastructures, at a variety of levels from an IT strategy and architect practitioner level through to C-level. This is a business technology research & strategy role as opposed to business or market strategy, or management consulting role.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years’ experience in a top firm within the capital markets sector (investment banks, trading platform / market infrastructure or data provider) with responsibility for technology strategy, architecture or change delivery; or
• 10+ years’ experience in a management consulting firm, or research & advisory firm working within the sector

SKILL AND EXPERTISE:

• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to learn about and master new areas of technology-led innovation
• Commercial experience, with a collaborative approach to problem solving, and the ability to work in a global, culturally diverse environment
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Growing public profile and reputation, with strong public speaking and facilitation skills
• Strong understanding of research methods, qualitative and quantitative
• Intellectual curiosity and the drive to learn about and master new areas
• A working knowledge of the role technology plays in shaping capital markets
• A keen interest in understanding emerging technologies and their relationship to fintech innovations
• Ability to work independently and successfully manage short- and long-term deliverables.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for a senior analyst to contribute towards and help shape our Post Trade/Operations-focused research agenda for Capital Markets within Celent, working within a team of like-minded analysts charged with creating content for and providing advice to executives across Capital Markets and the global ecosystem of market participants.
If you have post trade/operations expertise and enjoy learning and developing fresh ideas linked to areas of new technology demand and are passionate about fintech, this role could be for you. You will be tasked with creating fresh primary research on technology-led innovation, identifying impact of emerging technologies and fintech solutions, delivering engaging presentations, data collection and analysis, speaking at client events and webinars, conducting survey & briefings and delivery of short high-impact strategy consulting, working with clients on specific opportunities within their business. It’s a varied role placing you at the heart of business and technology in capital markets.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Identify relevant research trends and themes across the post trade/operations landscape.
• Conduct your own leading-edge research into emerging technology use / fintech, ensuring frequent and impactful content production and client service delivery; developing your skills as needed.
• Influence and contribute actively towards our client technology research agenda for Capital Markets (wholesale financial markets and global ecosystem) engaging with clients and the team to gather requirements for fresh and innovative content that is in-demand and thought provoking.
• Work closely with business development and client service teams to identify further opportunities for business growth and to achieve higher levels of existing client satisfaction.
• Become a brand ambassador for Celent, developing and promoting a leading market profile as a Capital Markets strategy influencer.
• Identify opportunities for and deliver bespoke research-based consulting such as voice of customer surveys and interviews, system selection, technology strategy, go-to-market and product research and M&A strategy support.