Associate, Financial Services Practices

The Research Associate will leverage their deep domain knowledge and external network to drive C-level/senior candidate recommendations and/or mid-level candidate development. This individual will also proactively drive business development opportunities given their intimacy with market trends and company insights.

The Associate will build, or have built, an external network of industry or functional sources and experts that they can tap into to drive client solutions. The Expert is expected to function autonomously as required. However, the Segment and Practice experts and consultants work collectively as a team for candidate idea generation, references and client assignment work. This role will be visible to clients and will be expected to help develop key account strategies.

As an experienced hire, this individual is expected to lead by example and act as an informal mentor and coach to other experts they work with throughout the organization. This is an individual contributor role however there will be extensive collaboration with global colleagues on projects.

The Expert will work closely in collaboration with Experts and Consultant colleagues around the world as a fully integrated team member on senior-level, international projects.

Required knowledge/experience:

• Post Graduate from an accredited academic institution
• A deep knowledge of, or clear propensity to learn about the Financial Services Industry at large, its competitive landscape including the very latest trends along with 8+ years of business research experience
• Experience of working on international engagements either in a professional services environment or in an in-house/captive research environment
• Openness to travelling once or twice a year if need be
• A self-starter with learning agility, engaging remotely, thought partnering, critical thinking, eye for detail, conceptual thinking
• Superior verbal and written communication skills and expertise with MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint & Excel)