Consultant.e- Revenue Improvement Services

Alvarez & Marsal :

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides transaction advisory services, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 10,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

FSI team :

This role sits within the FSI team at Alvarez and Marsal in Madrid. Our FSI practice provides assistance to financial institutions which are seeking organic or inorganic growth opportunities, requires restructuring or is seeking to conduct strategic reviews. Working directly with our client’s management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address its problems and to maximise value.

We work with clients across the Financial Services industry including; on Banks, Private Equity investors, Regulatory authorities, Insurers, wealth and asset managers and other specialised FS firms. A&M’s FSI professionals work on some of the world’s most high-profile cases in a rapidly transforming financial services landscape, striving for game-changing solutions that provide impactful long-term change. The team's core market is France, but there are opportunities to work across Europe and in emerging markets. Our global team is comprised of seasoned financial services executives from diverse backgrounds, former senior industry executives, financial institution regulators and highly skilled consultants.

The Purpose of the Analyst role :

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to use your financial services and / or consultancy experience to become involved in a ‘hands on’ team. As a valued member of the FSI Madrid team, you will work on a variety of projects, leveraging your financial services industry knowledge and your experience of financial modelling to support the senior team members in managing large and complex transformation programs, cost reduction initiatives, winding down non-core assets and above all else generating impact for our clients.

The consultant will join a team specialized in revenue improvement for the banking industry which is based in the Madrid office of Alvarez & Marsal

The delivery of the projects is Global, which implies the need to travel to the countries where the clients are

The consultant will propose concrete ideas and will build complete Business Cases to improve the profitability of the client's products, having a transversal vision of the banking business (design of products and commercial strategies, operational aspects, risks, regulatory aspects, implementations, etc.)

The consultant will build his analyses on the basis of the bank's transactional data (with which he will build financial models), analyze banking processes, the product portfolio, customer behavior, the competitive environment and the regulatory framework

The identified initiatives are presented to the bank's C-level executives; hence, the project has wide visibility in the organization

The team currently carries out projects in top-tier banks in more than 20 countries on 3 continents

Required skills :

Motivated person with great analytical capacity and interest in building complex financial models from transactional data

1-4 years with a background in consulting within the financial services sector

Ease of handling and analyzing large databases (knowledge of Access, SQL, SAS or similar)

Interest in specializing in the financial sector (mainly retail banking) and in results-oriented business consulting

Graduate in Economics, Business Administration and Management, Engineer, Mathematician or similar degrees with a clearly quantitative profile

The candidate must have a strong quantitative base that allows the required specialized knowledge to be acquired quickly

Languages :

English : Professional level (required)

Any other language (like Spanish) will be positively valued

We offer :

Immediate incorporation into a highly specialized international team in a top-level strategic consulting firm

International career development collaborating with local teams in different countries

Competitive compensation