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Financial services careers at PA: accelerated progression for outstanding people
PA's Financial Services Practice provides a challenging environment that offers excellent opportunities for entry-level consultants to gain experience in the financial services sector. Our training program, combined with practical, on-site work with clients, enables you to expand and develop your capabilities rapidly, and to gain insight into all areas of the industry from retail banking and commercial banking to insurance and capital markets. We offer extremely competitive graduate salaries and bonuses, and encourage employees to participate in PA's share ownership program.
What can PA's Financial Services Practice offer you?
- Involvement with projects ranging from re-engineering to risk management, from business strategy to the implementation of innovative banking systems
- Development of core consulting and analytic skills: oral presentation and written communication, structured problem solving, project management, analysis planning and client relationship management
- The opportunity to work closely with experts in our bases of operation in London and New York, as well as with consultants from other industry and functional practices
- International assignments
- Client work that utilizes the most innovative, pioneering thought and technology available in the sector
- Accelerated career progression for outstanding people.
What differentiates PA from other consultancies?
- Our philosophy is that all our people should be shareholders in the company - not just those at senior levels. PA is an employee-owned company where we all think and act as owners
- Our promotion and remuneration is based on individual merit
- The people you will work with are creative, practical and individual thinkers
- PA focuses on creating benefits for clients rather than merely proposing them, and this focus is supported by an outstanding implementation track record in every major industry and for governments around the world.
Opportunities
PA is looking for consultants with a range of experience in financial services to join our team in London and New York.
How does our selection process work?
The selection process is in three stages:
- Screening interview to test business skills
- Assessment interview and exercises:
- technical interview(s)
- tests of aptitude in numerical skills and verbal reasoning
- case study
- team exercise
- Final interview with a member of the PA Management Team.
Who are we looking for?
Applications are invited from those with:
- (for UK applicants) - a first or upper-second class honors degree or equivalent evidence of academic ability as a minimum; (for North American applicants) - a bachelors degree from an academically elite school or an MBA from a top-ten business school
- a track record demonstrating a commitment to new challenges, wider influence and greater responsibility
- the ability to speak other languages - this is not mandatory, but is valued
- proven ability in leading project teams and business development (for more senior positions).
Personal attributes
Successful candidates will:
- have a passion for client service, enjoying the challenges involved in introducing and implementing new thinking and rapid innovative solutions
- be prepared to be challenged and stretched continually and have a continuing desire for growth and changing work environments
- have a creative approach to problem solving. We are not looking for consultants to grind through standard methodology - instead each consultant is expected to devise unique and powerful solutions that genuinely address client needs, based on our best practice guidelines and processes
- be able to co-operate as a team member with effective communication skills and sensitivity to local cultural issues
- be willing to lead and manage an effective team, making tough decisions where necessary
- enjoy absorbing new knowledge rapidly and combining both theory and practice
- be able to deal with people at all levels.
Candidates must be willing to work away from home during the week, and for longer periods when working on international assignments.
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