Manager - FAAS, Private Equity, Operational Excellence, Riyadh

About the Role
We are seeking a Manager to join the Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) practice within Banking and Capital Markets. This role requires a strong combination of banking domain knowledge, Asset Management, Private Equity Accounting, and Operational Excellence.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support Banking and Capital Markets advisory engagements across finance transformation, operating model design, core banking modernization, digital channels, data, controls, and technology-enabled change.
• Lead and support asset management/private equity advisory engagements across finance, operating model design both at the management company level and at the portfolio company level.
• Strong understanding of fund controllership and fund accounting principles and practices.
• Work with client stakeholders across business, finance, operations, technology, risk, and compliance functions to assess current-state challenges, define target-state requirements, and develop practical implementation roadmaps.
• Translate banking strategy and business requirements into actionable work plans, process designs, capability maps, target operating models, governance structures, and implementation deliverables.
• Support large-scale transformation and implementation programmes, including programme governance, PMO setup, milestone tracking, RAID management, business readiness, change adoption, and executive reporting.
• Contribute to business development activities including proposal development, credentials, scope definition, effort estimation, client presentations, and preparation of boardroom-ready materials.
• Coach and manage junior team members, ensuring high-quality analysis, structured problem solving, strong documentation, and timely delivery of client outputs.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Strong structured problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex banking issues into clear hypotheses, analyses, and recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently with client teams across business, finance, technology, operations, and risk functions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop executive-level presentations, reports, process documentation, and decision-ready materials.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and maintain high-quality delivery standards in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to identify client needs, support proposal development, and contribute to the growth of the FAAS Banking and Capital Markets practice.
• Experience coaching junior consultants and reviewing deliverables to ensure analytical rigor, traceability, and professional quality.

To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have

• 5–7 years of relevant professional experience, preferably gained within a top-tier consulting firm, Big Four advisory practice, financial services technology advisory firm, or a leading banking transformation environment.
• Strong experience serving Banking and Capital Markets clients, with exposure to retail banking, corporate banking, transaction banking, treasury, payments, lending, deposits, cards, trade finance, capital markets, or related banking products.
• Strong experience serving asset management and private equity clients. Familiarity with different types of fund structures.
• Demonstrated experience in transformation programmes within the asset management, private equity, and banking sector, including operating model redesign, process improvement, technology implementation, digital transformation, core banking modernization, or large-scale programme delivery.
• Experience working with or around core banking platforms, digital banking channels, payments platforms, workflow tools, data platforms, reporting systems, ERP/finance systems, CRM, treasury systems, or other technologies that support day-to-day banking operations.
• Experience with asset management technology platforms.
• Familiarity with leading AI use cases in the banking market, including intelligent document processing, GenAI-enabled reporting, AI-assisted credit analysis, anomaly detection, predictive controls, intelligent reconciliations, workflow automation, and AI-enabled back-office productivity improvements.
• Practical understanding of how banks operate across front office, middle office, back office, finance, operations, risk, technology, and control functions.
• Experience supporting implementation projects, including requirements gathering, solution assessment, vendor coordination, testing support, business readiness, cutover planning, hypercare, or benefits tracking.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications such as CA, CPA, ACCA, CFA, or relevant certifications will be advantageous.
• Prior experience in a top-tier consulting firm or advisory environment serving Banking and Capital Markets clients is strongly preferred.
• Fluency in English is required; Arabic language capability would be an advantage for regional client delivery.

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

• Strong understanding of core banking products and processes, including customer onboarding, account servicing, lending, deposits, payments, cards, transaction banking, treasury, and financial reporting touchpoints.
• Familiarity with core banking and peripheral banking technology landscapes, including digital channels, mobile and internet banking, middleware, payments infrastructure, enterprise data platforms, reporting tools, and operational workflow solutions.
• Strong understanding of private equity fund structures and asset management operations.
• Ability to assess banking operating models across people, process, technology, data, governance, controls, and service delivery dimensions.
• Strong appreciation of the role of data, controls, automation, and technology architecture in supporting reliable, scalable, and compliant banking operations.
• Ability to identify, assess, and prioritize AI and automation opportunities across banking back-office functions, including operations, finance, reconciliations, reporting, controls, onboarding support, service request management, and exception handling.
• Working knowledge of transformation delivery methodologies, including waterfall, agile, hybrid delivery, PMO governance, business case development, benefits tracking, and change management.

What We Offer You
We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.