Location: New York, NY, United States

Our team comes from top strategy consulting firms, investment banks, and leading undergraduate and graduate programs. The Head of Strategy is responsible for defining the overall strategic direction of the business, reports directly to the Commercial & Investment Banking CEO, and is a member of the Commercial & Investment Banking Operating Committee. The Commercial & Investment Bank comprises Global Banking (combining the Commercial, Corporate, and Investment Bank), Payments, Markets, and Securities Services. These businesses offer lending, payments, investment banking, market-making, financing, custody and securities products and services to a global base of corporate and institutional clients.

As an Associate on the Commercial & Investment Bank Strategy team, you will support mission-critical projects, including but not limited to: assessing growth opportunities strategies – geographic, industry or product, putting together strategic roadmaps by identifying unmet or emerging client needs, refining client segmentation and/or client coverage models, understanding emerging trends or new entrants, assessing operating models, including redesign or automation, and supporting the creation of CEO-level executive communications. Projects are typically team-based and include close collaboration with the Commercial & Investment Banking Operating Committee and senior executives.

Job responsibilities:

• Apply structured problem-solving and design thinking to address top strategic priorities
• Develop innovative solutions to transform the business model and product offering
• Support multiple project work streams

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 3+ years of experience with a premier strategy consulting firm or an internal strategy consulting / corporate strategy team
• Demonstrated experience with consulting toolkit / broad range of analytical tools and problem-solving approaches
• Strong client management and executive-level communication skills
• Track record of demonstrating a high level of personal initiative, setting and achieving challenging goals, and demonstrating entrepreneurial leadership

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in financial services industry 

As an Associate you will support a portfolio of strategic initiatives that address critical challenges to the firm.