Senior Consultant

Evident Insights Ltd; City of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI benchmarking firm in London seeks a mid-senior level professional to engage with C-suite executives in shaping AI strategies. You'll harness extensive data analysis to guide financial institutions in their AI journeys, ensuring they maximize value and meet their strategic goals. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in strategy consulting and AI implementation, along with excellent communication and analytical skills. This full-time role offers an opportunity to impact the financial services sectors significantly.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in strategy consulting and/or financial services.
• Experience working on AI strategy/implementation with financial institutions.
• Proven experience in producing strategic, analytical content.

Responsibilities

• Brief senior AI leaders on AI maturity compared to peers.
• Develop bespoke benchmarking analysis for clients.
• Maintain expert knowledge on AI deployment in financial services.
• Facilitate sessions to enhance AI readiness and results.
• Inform product evolution with expertise and feedback.

Skills

Strategy consulting and/or financial services experience

AI strategy/implementation experience

Analytical content production

Client opportunity identification

Attention to detail and organisation

Cross-functional team collaboration

Effective communication

Tools

BigQuery

Tableau

Job description

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Evident is an intelligence platform that benchmarks and tracks AI adoption across the financial services sector. Since the launch of our flagship product in January 2023, the Evident AI Index has rapidly become the global standard benchmark for AI maturity in banking. The Evident AI Index forms the basis of our benchmarking products, which help companies to understand their ranking in relation to peers and to accelerate their AI strategy. The Client Services team, sitting at the core of Evident’s value proposition to clients, is responsible for delivering bespoke benchmarking analysis to clients and shaping the strategy of our benchmarking products.

If you are interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, innovative and impact-driven company, you can read about Our Values and Our Commitment to Responsible AI. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion are set out at the end of this job description.

The Role

We are seeking individuals who are interested in working with C-Suite decision makers at the world’s largest financial institutions to shape group-wide AI strategy.

In this role, you will provide cutting-edge insights on where to deploy AI to maximise value. You’ll be instrumental in shaping a client’s journey to AI maturity, whilst also feeding into shaping Evident’s own strategy and growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Briefing the most senior AI leaders at financial institutions across the globe on how their organisations’ AI maturity compares to market leaders and peers
• Developing bespoke benchmarking analysis for clients, applying analytical rigour to interpreting data and developing insights
• Maintaining expert points of view on how AI is being deployed in financial services, including up to date knowledge of how AI is generating meaningful impact and the capabilities that must be in place to enable value creation at scale
• Facilitating sessions with a range of stakeholders at financial institutions to provide guidance on initiatives related to enhancing AI readiness, deployment and results
• Informing the evolution of Evident’s existing products and development of new offerings with subject matter expertise and client feedback

Core Skills

• 3+ years of experience in strategy consulting and/or financial services
• Experience working on AI strategy / implementation with banks or other financial institutions
• Proven experience in producing strategic, analytical content for clients
• Ability to proactively identify client opportunities to deliver exceptional value to clients
• Exhibit attention to detail and organisation - able to manage multiple clients and deadlines in parallel
• Proven experience of working effectively with a range of cross-functional team members
• Eagerness to take on ownership without being asked
• Communicate concisely and effectively, in writing and verbally

Nice to have

• Knowledge of / experience with AI use in large organisations
• Experience with BigQuery, Tableau and/or other data visualisation tools

If you do not fulfil all requirements in the job description, we encourage you to submit your application nonetheless. Please note: you must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom without visa sponsorship.

Our commitments to diversity and inclusion

• Evident is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating all forms of discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
• During our recruitment process, you will not be discriminated against for any of the following reasons: race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), age, disability, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. If you need us to make certain changes (known as reasonable adjustments) to make sure you are not disadvantaged during the recruitment process, you should contact us as soon as possible.
• We strive to create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation and discrimination, promote dignity and respect for all, and value and recognise individual differences and the contributions of all staff.

Employment details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Consulting, Strategy/Planning, and Analyst
• Industries: Financial Services, Banking, and Investment Banking

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