Monocle Consultant

**Accelerate Your Career**

At Monocle, we believe work is more than a job. It is a chance to make a difference in the world of finance. An opportunity to fulfil your potential. To make friendships with ambitious, positive, likeminded people. To gain invaluable industry experience and learn critical skills that will make you a highly sought-after management consultant.

Monocle is a people-centric, independent consulting firm, specialising in banking and insurance. We understand that our greatest asset is our people and because of this, we do things a bit differently.

**Monocle's Employee Value Proposition**:
Monocle embraces an ongoing and active approach to amplifying the talents of our people, empowering them to unlock their full potential and feel fulfilled in their careers. Our vibrant culture thrives through our shared growth mindset, collaboration, support, and social connection, fostering a space where everyone can flourish. We are committed to continuous learning and provide ongoing technical training, industry certification support, and personal development opportunities through mentorship and executive engagement. Ultimately, we strive to create an environment that nurtures ambition, supports well-being, embraces diversity, upholds integrity, and inspires individuals to make a positive and lasting impact on the world around us.

**Monocle offers**:

- ** Unlimited** **training** **and** **development -** Investment in our peoples development is at the heart of Monocles company ethos. That is why we prioritise the upskilling of every employee.
- ** Unparalleled** **growth** **and** **exposure** **-** Monocle is uniquely positioned in the market to undertake projects across a wide spectrum of critical and exciting areas of the financial services industry. Our consultants deliver mission critical projects at the most prestigious banks and insurers in Johannesburg, Cape Town, London and Amsterdam.
- ** Unique** **and** **vibrant** **company** **culture -** At Monocle, we believe friends work better together than colleagues. We love nothing more than partaking in a wide variety of activities through our company sponsored clubs.
- ** Ultra-competitive compensation -** At Monocle, we want the best talent to join our team, so we understand that those individuals need to be recognised and rewarded for their true value.

**Monocle is looking for an experienced professional to join our team as a consultant. As a Consultant at Monocle your tasks and responsibilities will include**:

- Play a leading support role in the delivery of large projects. This may include project management related activities like creating a product roadmap, setting up project governance structures and driving the delivery of multi-disciplinary teams.
- Designing and implementing dashboards and management reports, generally using Power BI.
- Solving complex problems in the banking industry.
- Conducting Business Analysis to elicit user requirements and document these in support of technical development.
- Perform Data Analysis, particularly in support of technical project implementations where the consultant may be required to develop an understanding of complex datasets and perform thorough data reconciliations.
- Identify process inefficiencies and propose and implement improvements to these processes. This may include, but is not limited to, automation through technology.
- Taking responsibility for own delivery and contribution on projects.
- Develop and maintain good professional working relationships with clients at all levels of the organization.
- Engage with senior stakeholders in a mature and respectful manner.

**We are looking for individuals with**:

- A degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Econometrics, Statistics, or Data Sciences, with strong preference for a post graduate qualification.
- Nice to have designations: FRM, CA(SA), CIMA, CFA.
- A combination of these technical skills will be beneficial - Data Analysis, power BI, SQL, Python, Advanced Excel, AWS Redshift
- 3 years or more relevant experience in:

- Banking,
- Asset Management, or
- Insurance.

**Experience Requirements**:
Experience in any of the below domains will be highly advantageous.
- Financial Crime (AML or Fraud) or legal compliance in the financial services sector. This would ideally be in either a second-line oversight capacity, or in the development of systems, processes and frameworks for Financial Crime management.
- Treasury, especially funds transfer pricing or asset/liability management. This may include specific design and modelling experience in developing these functions, or practical experience in the day-to-day management of these processes.
- Risk Management in a banking context (Liquidity, Interest Rate Risk, Market Risk, or Operational Risk). Ideally this experience will be in a second-line function and would include the development of risk management processes, or the implementation of risk systems and tools.

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