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Company Overview

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.9000+ staff and over 80 offices world-wide. Our Middle East practice is well established and one of the fastest growing advisory businesses in the region. Specializing in providing turnaround management, performance improvement and corporate advisory services, A&M draws on a strong operational heritage, hands-on-approach and relentless focus on execution and results.

The Team

The A&M EMEA Digital & Technology Services (DTS) team revolves around six core areas of expertise: Digital Strategy, Customer Experience, Data & Intelligence, Cyber Security, Smart Products & Assets and Cloud. We are full service Digital offering spanning Strategy, Customer Experience, Technology and Data. Our positioning is at the intersection of strategy and execution (not slides and then gone, nor fingers on keyboards coding & testing or detailed customer journey designing), architecting the destination, orchestrating the delivery, and navigating the change & transformation journey.

We help clients ideate, incubate, and industrialise new business models including agile target operating models, customer and product innovations, or intelligent and automated back offices leveraging a mix of capabilities ranging from digital product management, customer experience (CX) service design, data and analytics, and self-service platforms. Working directly with client management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address key market opportunities or challenges and maximise the value of its business and technology investments moving forward.

The Role

As a result of our growth, our Middle East Team is expanding. We are looking for a Senior Associate who will sit at the intersection of our Digital and Financial Services Team. The successful candidate will be using their prior professional services experience to become an integral part of our successful hands-on team.

A&Ms Digital professionals work on some of the worlds most high-profile cases in a rapidly transforming landscape, striving for game-changing solutions that provide impactful long-term change. Our international team is comprised of seasoned executives from diverse backgrounds, functional experts & highly skilled consultants.

Typical projects will include:

Participating in end-to-end strategy or customer digital transformations across business, technology, process and people;
Creating value by reinventing the core of our clients businesses;
Developing and implementing forward-looking concepts and support your clients in the context of IT strategy, transformation (building digital banks, assessing FinTech ventures, designing and orchestrating digital transformations, creating innovative financial services products and services, conducting post-merger IT landscape integration);
Gathering and analysing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing and communicating recommendations;
Building models based on financial and/or operational data and as such have excellent knowledge of Excel (to analyse the data) and PowerPoint (to present the analyses);
Becoming part of client teams and operating fully end to end, from problem identification to formulating strategy and delivering the end product; and
Transferring capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate needs to possess a passion for digital transformation and have a strong consulting experience.

At least 6 years of relevant experience in the Middle East in a financial services or professional services environment (Management Consulting, Banking, Insurance, or Wealth);
A high-grade bachelors degree (or equivalent/higher) from an accredited top-tier university in business, economics, computer science or a similar discipline;
Understanding of IT function specificity and a keen eye for the business processes analysis;
Understanding of banking products;
Thorough understanding of business opportunities introduced by digitalization;
Logical thinking and strong problem-solving skills;
High integrity as characterized by the ability to deliver messages even when they are difficult to hear, and
Fluent business level English is essential. Additional language skills including Arabic are advantageous.

Why join A&M?

A&M is a fast-paced environment with a highly dynamic culture that emphasizes diversity and inclusion. We empower, coach and mentor our people and endorse meritocracy to develop skilled consultants who will grow with A&M to deliver tangible results and build long-lasting relationships, internally and externally. Our entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry.

The collaborative, supportive environment and engaging work guided by A&Ms core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversityare the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

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