Consultant - Financial Services

Sia•New York, NY

3d•$89,800 - $110,200•Hybrid

About The Position

Sia is seeking a highly motivated Associate Consultant to join our Financial Services Consulting practice as a Forward Deployed Business Analyst (FDBA). This is not a traditional Business Analyst role. As a FDBA, you will be embedded with client teams to own business outcomes, not just document requirements. You will leverage AI as a core part of your workflow to move faster, think deeper, and deliver smarter solutions across financial services organizations. You will act as a strategic advisor, AI operator, and execution partner, using AI to eliminate administrative work and focus your time on problem-solving, stakeholder alignment, and solution design.

Requirements

Master's degree in Engineering, AI Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Financial Engineering, Computing, or a related field.
Recent graduate or early-career candidate with up to 2 years of post-graduate experience, including internships, academic projects, or work experience demonstrating business problem-solving, analytical thinking, professional communication, AI-enabled ways of working, and a proactive, forward-deployed BA mindset.
Foundational ability to leverage AI tools, prompt engineering, and modern productivity platforms to accelerate business analysis, requirements gathering, process documentation, research, testing support, and stakeholder-ready deliverables, while applying sound judgment to validate and improve AI-generated outputs.
Ability to use Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau and other related tools to support advanced data analysis, develop insights and analytics, and create clear, effective presentations and communications.
Strong communication skills, analytical thinking, attention to detail, ownership, teamwork, and intellectual curiosity, with the ability to work closely with business and technology stakeholders, synthesize ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, identify gaps, and help drive work forward in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
Foundational understanding of, or demonstrated interest in, the financial services industry, including areas such as products, operations, regulatory requirements, technology, and business processes.
Based in or near NYC, with the ability to commute to client sites within the metro area as required.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout their employment.
This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

experience in financial services or management consulting is preferred.

Responsibilities

Apply traditional consulting tools and emerging AI-enabled, no-code, low-code, automation, and analytics platforms to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, prototyping, process mapping, stakeholder alignment, and delivery execution.
Work directly with client business, operations, product, data, and technology teams to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, technical constraints, stakeholder priorities, and desired business outcomes.
Assess current-state processes, systems, data flows, risks, dependencies, and pain points to identify root causes, evaluate business impacts, and help define the design and implementation of strategic initiatives (e.g., operating model transformation, system implementations, process optimization).
Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process flows, data requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, and solution documentation that bridge business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
Partner with product owners, engineers, architects, data teams, and client stakeholders to support solution design system implementation, workflow optimization, integration planning, UAT, validation, and implementation readiness across front, middle, and back-office platforms.
Own assigned tasks and deliverables by managing timelines, tracking risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies, proactively communicating progress, and helping drive initiatives from analysis through execution.
Prepare structured, accurate, and polished materials, including presentations, executive summaries, business cases, impact assessments, process documentation, status reports, meeting outputs, and stakeholder communications for internal teams, client stakeholders, and senior leaders.