About this Senior Manager role at PwC
PwC · Onsite · Tashkent
Job Description & Summary
As a Senior Manager, Strategy & in the Financial Services domain, you will lead high-impact strategic engagements with clients in banking, insurance, fintech, or related sectors. You will own full project life cycle - from diagnosis, strategy formulation, to execution planning - and help clients transform their organization, operations, and business models for sustainable growth.You will operate at the intersection of business, operations, and technology, working with senior executives, multi-disciplinary teams, and external stakeholders. You will also contribute to practice development by building intellectual capital, supporting business development, and coaching junior team members.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and manage multiple client engagements in the financial services sector (and internal strategic initiatives), from scoping through delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs, agenda progression, and stakeholder alignment.
• Diagnose client challenges using structured problem-solving, quantitative analysis, market research, benchmarking, and executive interviews.
• Develop strategic options (e.g. growth strategies, new business models, digital/technology-enabled innovation) and translate them into actionable, implementable roadmaps.
• Support execution planning, including design of operating models, organizational structure, processes, metrics, capability building, change management, and tracking of value capture.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior clients, helping them navigate ambiguity, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Manage client relationships- lead meetings, present to executive audiences, steer decision-making, and maintain high client satisfaction.
• At times, drive hands-on work (financial modeling, analytics, business cases, dashboards, implementation oversight).
• Lead and coach a team of consultants/analysts: set feedback loops, guide technical and soft skills development, and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to business development: market mapping, proposal development, client pitches, and capturing follow-on work.
• Build the firm’s (or unit’s) knowledge infrastructure: develop tools, frameworks, case studies, thought leadership, and internal capability.
• Participate in recruitment, training, and peer learning within the Strategy & practice.
Qualifications & Skills
• MBA, advanced degree, or equivalent experience (e.g. in finance, business, economics, engineering).
• Typically 8+ years of professional experience in management consulting (especially strategy) or comparable strategic roles in financial services, fintech, or financial institutions.
• Deep domain knowledge in at least one financial services vertical (banking, insurance, payments, fintech) and demonstrable track record of leading strategic initiatives in that space.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills: proficiency with financial modeling, valuation, metrics, KPIs, data analysis, scenario planning.
• Excellent problem structuring, synthesis, and insight generation.
• Experience in digital, technology, transformation, or process redesign in financial services is a plus.
• Proven ability to lead multisector or cross-functional teams, coordinate workstreams, manage ambiguity, and deliver under tight timelines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; ability to influence senior executives.
• Coaching and mentoring experience.
• Business development skills and a proactive mindset for opportunity spotting.
• Willingness to travel (if client-based role).
• Fluency in English, Russian. Uzbek language is plus.
What Success Looks Like
• Consistent delivery of high-impact client results (or internal outcomes) with measurable business value (e.g. revenue growth, cost savings, digital adoption, improved metrics).
• Strong client relationships and repeat engagements.
• Development and retention of high-potential team members.
• Contribution to the growth and reputation of the Strategy & practice (through thought leadership, proposals, frameworks, knowledge management).
• Achievement of internal performance and utilization targets.
Why This Role Matters
In a rapidly evolving financial services landscape- impacted by regulation, technology disruption, changing customer expectations, and macro uncertainty- this role gives you the chance to shape strategic direction, operational excellence, and competitive advantage for leading institutions. You’ll work on challenging, high-leverage problems, develop leadership capabilities, and build a visible track record in the industry.
• Lead and manage multiple client engagements in the financial services sector (and internal strategic initiatives), from scoping through delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs, agenda progression, and stakeholder alignment.
• Diagnose client challenges using structured problem-solving, quantitative analysis, market research, benchmarking, and executive interviews.
• Develop strategic options (e.g. growth strategies, new business models, digital/technology-enabled innovation) and translate them into actionable, implementable roadmaps.
• Support execution planning, including design of operating models, organizational structure, processes, metrics, capability building, change management, and tracking of value capture.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to senior clients, helping them navigate ambiguity, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Manage client relationships- lead meetings, present to executive audiences, steer decision-making, and maintain high client satisfaction.
• At times, drive hands-on work (financial modeling, analytics, business cases, dashboards, implementation oversight).
• Lead and coach a team of consultants/analysts: set feedback loops, guide technical and soft skills development, and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to business development: market mapping, proposal development, client pitches, and capturing follow-on work.
• Build the firm’s (or unit’s) knowledge infrastructure: develop tools, frameworks, case studies, thought leadership, and internal capability.
• Participate in recruitment, training, and peer learning within the Strategy & practice.
Qualifications & Skills
• MBA, advanced degree, or equivalent experience (e.g. in finance, business, economics, engineering).
• Typically 8+ years of professional experience in management consulting (especially strategy) or comparable strategic roles in financial services, fintech, or financial institutions.
• Deep domain knowledge in at least one financial services vertical (banking, insurance, payments, fintech) and demonstrable track record of leading strategic initiatives in that space.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills: proficiency with financial modeling, valuation, metrics, KPIs, data analysis, scenario planning.
• Excellent problem structuring, synthesis, and insight generation.
• Experience in digital, technology, transformation, or process redesign in financial services is a plus.
• Proven ability to lead multisector or cross-functional teams, coordinate workstreams, manage ambiguity, and deliver under tight timelines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills; ability to influence senior executives.
• Coaching and mentoring experience.
• Business development skills and a proactive mindset for opportunity spotting.
• Willingness to travel (if client-based role).
• Fluency in English, Russian. Uzbek language is plus.
What Success Looks Like
• Consistent delivery of high-impact client results (or internal outcomes) with measurable business value (e.g. revenue growth, cost savings, digital adoption, improved metrics).
• Strong client relationships and repeat engagements.
• Development and retention of high-potential team members.
• Contribution to the growth and reputation of the Strategy & practice (through thought leadership, proposals, frameworks, knowledge management).
• Achievement of internal performance and utilization targets.
Why This Role Matters
In a rapidly evolving financial services landscape- impacted by regulation, technology disruption, changing customer expectations, and macro uncertainty- this role gives you the chance to shape strategic direction, operational excellence, and competitive advantage for leading institutions. You’ll work on challenging, high-leverage problems, develop leadership capabilities, and build a visible track record in the industry.
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