Financial Services Advisory Consultant – Banking, Insurance & Capital Markets
About The Position
Guidehouse is seeking highly motivated professionals to join its Financial Services Advisory practice, supporting clients across Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets. The role offers the opportunity to work with leading financial institutions on complex business challenges, transformational initiatives, risk and compliance capabilities, and strategic solutions that create measurable client value. At the Senior Consultant or Managing Consultant level, the position supports multiple client engagements. Consultants partner with stakeholders to improve operations, manage risk, navigate regulatory requirements, and execute business transformation initiatives. Successful candidates are intellectually curious, client-focused, collaborative, and comfortable in fast-paced and evolving environments. The annual salary range is $107,000 to $178,000. Compensation decisions depend on factors including skill sets, experience, training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and business and organizational needs. Guidehouse offers a comprehensive total rewards package and a flexible benefits package intended to support a diverse and supportive workplace.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
- 3–10 years of relevant professional experience, depending on position level.
- Experience within banking, insurance, capital markets, consulting, advisory services, or a related financial services environment.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and solve complex business problems and operate effectively in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Experience managing projects, workstreams, client deliverables, or strategic initiatives.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced consulting and client-service environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working for a large financial institution, such as a large regional bank, national bank, insurance organization, capital markets organization, or Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB).
- Previous experience with a management consulting, advisory, or Big Four consulting organization.
- Experience supporting business transformation, operational excellence, process improvement, change management, regulatory compliance, risk management, or strategic initiatives.
- Experience building programs, processes, operating models, or operational frameworks from inception through implementation.
- Subject matter expertise in operational optimization, financial crimes compliance, regulatory compliance and response, risk management, payments modernization, asset management, consumer banking, commercial banking, insurance, or capital markets.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Change Management, or other relevant credentials.
Responsibilities
- Support and lead client engagements across Banking, Insurance, and Capital Markets, focusing on risk management, regulatory compliance, operations, and business transformation.
- Analyze complex business challenges and translate findings into practical, actionable recommendations and client-focused solutions.
- Build and maintain client relationships through stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication.
- Facilitate workshops, working sessions, meetings, and presentations with client leadership and project teams.
- Manage project workstreams, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and risks across multiple engagements.
- Develop business cases, operational strategies, process improvement recommendations, and transformation roadmaps.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to address evolving client priorities and business needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and drive innovation.
- Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, market research, business development, proposal development, and people management, as appropriate to level.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays
- May be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental leave and adoption assistance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Basic life and supplemental life insurance
- Health Savings Account and dental/vision and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition reimbursement, personal development, and learning opportunities
- Skills development and certifications
- Employee referral program
- Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach
- Emergency back-up childcare program
- Mobility stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
