5 Consulting Roles jobs in South Africa

Overview

Discover your future career in Deloitte Consulting’s Strategic Advisory business. Our multidisciplinary team spans across the continent and combines strategic foresight with rigorous analysis to drive growth, manage risks, and enhance industry performance.

We empower our clients to navigate complex challenges and uncover opportunities to create value and competitive advantage while also building organisational trust and resilience for the long run.

We look for the best talent to co-create dynamic Strategy & Business Design that enables strategy-led transformation, we help clients build, transform and protect value, be it financial, economic, social, environmental, or cultural.

Our specialists' harness deep insights on market size, competitive landscape and evolving of the dynamic trends on our continent, responding to the client’s business growth.

Main Purpose of Job

Roles and responsibilities:

Client Delivery for FSI

• Supports the Senior Manager on delivery of designated engagement / project, managing the implementation of the agreed deliverables
• Tracks outputs against Service Level Agreement and reports to Senior Manager on any unforeseen issues arising
• Seeks to identify additional sales opportunities in client business
• Assists in the preparation of proposals/tenders and presentations on request
• Is a support resource in planning of sales presentations and client negotiation teams for new and retained business
• Develops market network in business and builds relationships that generate leads
• Builds relationships across Deloitte service lines to understand broader offerings and seeks opportunities for cross-selling
• Generates innovative solutions on projects / engagements in collaboration with team members to enhance / renew service offerings to client
• Demonstrates an industry focus across one or more industries

Engagement Leadership

• Manages day-to-day deliverables of team onclient engagements / projects
• Proactively identifies client service and technical issues and implements resolutions to address these
• Meets regularly with client and client teams to understand issues, anticipate needs and address these
• Communicates need for any changes in engagement / project plan to Senior Manager for discussion with Engagement sponsor / client
• Provides ongoing communication to teams on status of engagement / project, changes, achievements, etc.
• Builds network of relationships across Deloitte to understand other service line offerings and to market own functional area
• Establishes and maintains good working relationships with external clients across industries
• Participates in thought leadership process and shares functional and industry knowledge and expertise with clients, colleagues and teams
• Keeps Senior Manager updated on status of engagement
• Develops productive working relationships with client teams

Experience Required

• Experience with a Tier-One Professional Services Firm and/or leading blue-chip organisation in related industry vertical
• 5-8 years working experience including 5 years in a client facing as well as 3 years in a management role with a focus on digital transformation
• Working experience and deep working knowledge of primary industry
• Proven experience in 1/more of the customer domains of Sales, Service, Marketing and Commerce

Relevant Strategic Advisory Competencies

• Experience leading and managing multidisciplinary project teams to deliver tailored strategic solutions across or in chosen industry verticals
• Minimum of 8 years deep functional knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Corporate strategy, operating model, data and analytics, Digital Marketing, Route to Market, Revenue Growth Management, Digital Commerce.
• Deep customer domain experience across Sales, Service, Marketing & Commerce

Qualification Required

• Bachelor's qualification in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or related
• MBA or Masters in the relevant field of study is a definite advantage

Additional Information

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

Be careful

Don’t provide your bank or credit card details when applying for jobs.

It is strictly against Deloitte policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Deloitte will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Senior Managing Consultant - Strategy & Transformation, Advisors & Consulting Services
Senior Managing Consultant - Strategy & Transformation
Advisors & Consulting Services
Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution. Our Advisors & Consulting Services team combines traditional management consulting with Mastercard's rich data assets, proprietary platforms, and technologies to provide clients with powerful strategic insights and recommendations. Our teams work with a diverse global customer base across industries, from banking and payments to retail and restaurants.
The Advisors & Consulting Services group has five specializations: Strategy & Transformation, Performance Analytics, Business Experimentation, Marketing, and Program Management. Our Strategy & Transformation consultants lead clients through impactful decision-making as they tackle strategic, tactical, operational, and transformational business challenges. They apply a broad set of problem-solving techniques to improve the client's overall strategy, performance, and operations.
Positions for different specializations and levels are available in separate job postings. Please review our consulting specializations to learn more about all opportunities and apply for the position that is best suited to your background and experience: and Responsibilities
Client Impact
- Lead complex client engagements across a range of industries and problem statements
- Direct the development of strategies and programs for regional and global clients by leveraging data and technology solutions to unlock client value
- Own senior client relationships from mid-level to C-suite to drive commercial success
- Serve as a trusted client business advisor and generate enthusiasm for the Mastercard team and our recommendations
Team Collaboration & Culture
- Guide team through complex problem solving to business-focused solutions and recommendations that drive client value
- Motivate the project delivery team to produce superior quality deliverables, and create a collaborative and inclusive environment for all levels
- Own relationship with internal Mastercard stakeholders including Product and Business Development to scope projects, create relevant solutions for clients, and build the firm's intellectual capital
- Lead on-the-job training, coaching, and mentorship to both direct and outside team members
Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- Undergraduate degree with work experience in consulting, corporate strategy, business intelligence, business line management, or product management
- Experience coaching and leading teams across large, strategic consulting engagements that involve structured problem solving and stakeholder management
- Experience leading senior client relationships
- Deep knowledge of business KPIs, financials, and organizational leadership
- Ability to identify new business development opportunities, and experience leading proposal development and scoping of new opportunities
- Experience generating new knowledge or creating innovative solutions for a firm
- Logical, structured thinking, and affinity for numerical analysis
- Advanced Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
- Ability to lead multiple projects and clients in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to communicate effectively in English and the local office language (if applicable)
- Eligibility to work in the country where you are applying, as well as apply for travel visas as required by travel needs
Preferred qualifications
- Relevant industry expertise
- MBA or master's degree with relevant specialization (not required)
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

The Role

Provide advice and support to sector SBUs and Post Investment Segments in respect of their clients who are showing early signs of operational and/or financial stress. Conduct detailed business diagnosis focusing on business dimensions (Leadership, Strategy, Operations, Finance, Human Capital, Sales Marketing) and document terms of reference that will inform the Value Creation Plan (VCP) for clients who would require management consulting services, training, support, mentorship and development.

Provide advisory support to the clients through knowledge provision, training, mentorship and coaching. Provide post-investment early-stage support to small, medium and large enterprises to collaboratively grow clients through assisting Segments in developing and implementing the VCP and its identified interventions.

Provide management consulting services in the areas of leadership, governance, corporate and business unit strategy, functional management strategies, sales and marketing, human capital, finance and operations (optimization, process re-engineering, operational efficiencies, productivity improvement, etc).

Implement business enabling systems and tools such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), financial and human capital systems, policies and processes to help formalize and professionalize clients’ businesses.

Provide domain knowledge and expertise to support clients to realize profit and growth such as: Markets, Value chain insights, Manufacturing 4.0 and technologies. Stakeholder management and engagement to ensure alignment of roles and responsibilities and building up a repository of core knowledge and insights within the IDC in supporting the delivery of the value creation plan for clients.

This is to ensure that a knowledge bank can be utilized by the clients for future interventions. Safeguard the client's security position through maintaining and/or improving the recoverability of the client's exposure.

Coach and mentor clients to build organizational capabilities such as: functional management skills; financial know-how; agile ways of working; strategic planning; marketing, corporate governance, etc. Conduct business diagnosis and deep-dive to identify areas of distress and improvement in the client’s business.

Draft and present submission reports to various decision-making committees responsible for portfolio monitoring and credit approval. Review drafted legal agreements to ensure they capture the client's credit committee approval.

Closely monitor the implementation of the strategy and plans through attending Steerco/ Manco; interaction with key stakeholders; regular client visits etc. Regularly update the pipeline and status report, and SAP to indicate and track progress in respect of transactions under your portfolio of clients.

Attend and contribute to the weekly Capability Advisory Services and periodic Business Advisory and Turnaround Services meetings. Provide efficient service to both internal and external stakeholders/clients.

Profile

To provide advisory services to clients depicting early warning signs of distress, that support limiting an increase in further distress; and where encountered, craft solutions and monitor implementation of interventions for these clients thereby restricting the number of clients that progress into turnaround and business rescue.

To support the clients through providing management consulting services, specialist knowledge and expertise to help them grow, operate better and become high-performance businesses.

Qualification

Minimum qualification: BCom with post-graduate degree MBA / MBL / CA(SA) would be an added advantage.

Knowledge Skills

At least 8-10 years’ experience in a management consulting environment, consulting to small, medium and large (blue chip) businesses experiencing growth prospects and/or early onset stress. A seasoned well-rounded management consultant with deep diagnostic, solutions-design and implementing skills, preferably from 1st or 2nd tier consulting firms.

Knowledge of business and the diversity of risks that may affect businesses. Good understanding of different types of security. Good working knowledge of Company, Contract, Taxation, IFRS and Insolvency legislation. Resourcing and implementing outcomes-based interventions. Good knowledge of industry standards, technology trends and best practices.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

Description

We are currently in search of an adept Electrical Engineer to join our client's team based in Johannesburg.

As an Electrical Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in delivering technical expertise and assistance to clients within the business consulting and services sector.

Responsibilities:

• Execute electrical design and analysis tasks across a range of projects.
• Prepare comprehensive technical reports, specifications, and drawings.
• Tackle engineering challenges and provide effective solutions.
• Supervise the production of drawings and associated infrastructure elements.
• Conduct on-site inspections and oversee operations.
• Collaborate closely with clients to grasp their requirements and objectives.
• Conduct thorough site visits and inspections as necessary.
• Offer valuable technical guidance and support to junior engineers.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and technological advancements.
• Ensure strict compliance with safety standards and regulations.
• Efficiently manage project timelines and budgets.
• Attend meetings and deliver insightful presentations to clients.

Requirements:

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
• Mandatory professional registration as Pr. Eng / Pr. Tech.
• Possess a minimum of 3-5 years of post-registration experience in electrical engineering.
• Prior experience in project management and electrical design is essential.
• Proficiency in relevant software and tools such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Projects, and AutoCAD.
• Advantageous to have familiarity with PV Solar Panels and Battery Energy Storage System trends.
• Capability in cost estimation and contribution to financial modeling is desirable.
• Previous involvement in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects would be advantageous.

Contact Hire Resolve for your next career-changing move.

Salary: negotiable.
Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.
Apply for this role today, contact Alyssa Marson, Chandre Cordier, Henker Harmse, Elma Pelser, Wernardt Snyman or Tameaka Futcher at Hire Resolve or on LinkedIn.
You can also visit the Hire Resolve website: hireresolve.us or email us your CV:
We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.

#J-18808-Ljbffr