Consulting Associate Job Description
Consulting associate
provides IT desktop support for the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, Mobile devices, Managed Print end points and other emerging technologies.
Consulting Associate Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Excellent analytical and conceptual skills to solve complex problems
Very strong social skills, clear ability to work in a team, motivate and develop colleagues
Analyze data information that is used to drive discussions with target management and drive observations for different solutions
Articulating findings for the client's valuation and sale, and provide other negotiating points
Prepare and submit time and expense reports weekly
Coordinate with Partners to identify gaps between staff needs and actual staffing levels
Conduct performance reviews for Executive Consultants, Networking Architects, Senior Consultants and Consultants
Participate in teaming calls to gain better understanding of activities in other markets to leverage successes in their geographic territories
Periodically update Partner on local engagements and opportunities
Comply with Partner requests for information or input on an as-needed basis
Consulting Associate Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Consulting Associate
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CFF, CFE, PMP, CCBCO, CRCM, CISA, CISSP, CIA, CISM
Education for Consulting Associate
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the consulting associate job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Economics, Finance, Business/Administration, MBA, Public Health, Accounting, Business, Administration, Computer Science, Health Care Administration
Skills for Consulting Associate
Desired skills for consulting associate include:
IIA Standards and emerging risks
Apple and Windows-based software/hardware
Microsoft Office tools
Computer network technologies
Protocols and topologies
Visio
Microsoft Office suite
Microsoft Project
Applicable compliance rules and regulations and firm policies
Financial process and functional processes
Desired experience for consulting associate includes:
Provide mentoring to Executive Consultants and Networking Architects
Develop and maintain the business processes for the team to ensure a smooth experience for the service
Lead the tracking of the Wealth Consulting case work in the case management database
Provide coordination support for meetings
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or related degree and/or a Master's in Business Administration
Desire to obtain CFP, CFA, CIMA or other advanced credential preferred
Consulting Associate Examples
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of consulting associate. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for consulting associate
- Working on engagements with clients – quickly becoming accepted as part of the fabric of the client’s management team in order to deliver exceptional quality of execution
- Support for the local execution of the Talent Development and Inclusion & Diversity initiatives in line with the firm wide strategy
- Collate, analyze, and present complex HR data and reports back to the HR Business Partners, providing data driven insight into key issues, problems, or focus areas to HR and the aligned businesses more broadly
- Provide advisory, generalist, and administrative support to HR Business Partners and line managers, leveraging subject matter experts from across the HR function as needed
- Develop high-performing partnerships with the broader HR Business Partner team, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Legal, Finance and other firm partners to effectively manage issues/escalations ensuring risk mitigation and seamless resolution
- Act as the primary interface with the HR operational team to address issues in worker data related to assigned client groups
- Identify and contribute to solutions for business issues/challenges through critical assessment and delivery in support of core HR processes, promoting consistency of approach and recommend continuous improvement opportunities
- Develop full understanding of the client’s objectives, goals and priorities in partnership with HR Business Partners
- Evaluate client alternatives
- Provides a complete and professional support service to the Consultants, including preparation of draft communications, advice and papers produced within CEB guidelines
Qualifications for consulting associate
- Highly self-motivated and directed character with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute task while under pressure
- Accounting, Computer Science, Information Systems or other related degrees
- Specific expertise required as specified
- Must demonstrate effective consulting and project management skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a life science, business or related field
- Internship or demonstrated interest in biopharmaceutical, consulting or healthcare industry with a track record of extra-curricular achievement
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a consulting associate. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for consulting associate
- Conduct detailed infrastructure assessments of newly acquired customers, including reverse engineering tasks and detailed environment documentation
- Design vertical customer solutions, including resilient networking, directory services, storage, networking, virtualization, backup systems, and cloud
- Working knowledge of security best practices pertaining to implementation and migration projects
- Act as a last level of escalation for major customer impacting issues, while collaborating with other managed services teams
- Deliver project management capabilities to your engagements, leading the engagement lifecycle, including scoping, statements of work, project plans, and service delivery updates
- Design and write detailed standard operating procedures for Engineering and Managed Services teams, including standards definition and configuration walkthroughs
- Responding to issues of varying complexity both over the phone and via email
- Documenting these issues, contributing to a knowledge base, and building an exceptional support experience for clients
- Contributing to the transition of newly on-boarded clients
- Helping with ad-hoc projects and initiatives
Qualifications for consulting associate
- A Levels – ideally 3 Bs minimum
- Must have experience delivering IT consulting services/solutions many of which encompass strategy, people, process, technology and infrastructure components
- Systematically identify and synthesise evidence clinical, epidemiological, quality of life, economic, and reimbursement evidence
- Must have strong command of English language, spoken and written
- Meticulous and open to learning
- An MBA, a master's in industrial and labor relations or related degree including significant coursework in finance, economics, statistics, mathematics, human resources (HR) and/or accounting, or equivalent work experience preferred
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Our company is hiring for a consulting associate. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for consulting associate
- Help support the coordination and facilitation of continuous improvement events
- Participation in practice development initiatives
- Ability and flexibility to work in a dynamic environment
- Manage Accounts payable processes
- Reconcile complex Balance Sheet accounts
- Reconcile complex, high volume cash accounts
- Accrual and adjusting Journal entries
- Maintain depreciation schedules
- Interact with client personnel, from bookkeeping staff to CFO/Owner
- Develop financial and operational analysis and processes
Qualifications for consulting associate
- The ability to work as a core member of the team on reviewing a client’s immediate and future issues and market position and develop actionable options for strategic and performance improvement
- Experience built through working on projects in Media particularly in television or subscription businesses including customer acquisition, retention, pricing, pay-TV, digital transformation and performance improvement
- An appreciation of the challenges that the Media sector faces in today’s market conditions.This may include digital transformation and the changing nature of rights, how broadcasters and pay-TV operators are impacted by OTT services such as Netflix, how to monetize media given switch to digital platforms / ad blocking, changes in consumer behaviour and and the changing mix of marketing spend to targeted and measurable advertising
- Knowledge of major media channels, broadcasting, publishing or the music industry
- Experience in managing and nurturing new / recent graduates
- Excellent written and oral communications skills, confident presenter
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a consulting associate. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for consulting associate
- The Associate may be required to support other business streams within Strategic Consulting services as needed
- With senior-level support and using best practices developed with others, deploy and manage engagement programs that improve the sense of community among account team
- Assist in the collection and use of data and information to evaluate the success of the communications program
- Assist in the collection feedback from employees about what they know of real estate and facilities activities and what they think about real estate and facilities services
- Package and optimize presentations and assets for sharing, printing and distribution
- Problem-solve with Planning Office and VP team to identify areas where we can improve business performance
- Conduct high-quality quantitative and qualitative analysis to define current and desired future state, while aligning methods and initial findings with key stakeholders
- Present findings and propose recommendations to VP team, Directors, Senior Managers, and the CEO
- Collaborate with business unit Directors and Senior Managers to develop implementation plans and support successful execution
- Deliver end-to-end work streams including hypotheses, analytics, findings and recommendations
Qualifications for consulting associate
- 2+ years of analytical experience in commercial credit risk modeling, credit risk management or consulting
- Strong skills of modelling techniques, experience in credit risk management or related disciplines, Basel II, and Basel III
- Strong skills in SAS, Matlab and other statistical programming software
- Ability to lead jobs, work as part of a team for larger engagements
- 3+ years in finance, risk, compliance, or consulting prior to business school, and proven desire to work in the financial industry
- 3+ years in consulting, finance, or strategy function prior to business school, and proven desire to work in the financial industry
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Our company is looking for a consulting associate. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for consulting associate
- Coach, mentor, and day to day management to individual contributors and consulting managers
- Gather and flesh out business requirements for a trading platform
- Analyze and model business processes
- Create and present business solution options and support decision making processes amongst stakeholders
- Design and facilitate change management processes
- Coordinate teams to ensure delivery acting as bridge between the Business and IT partners
- Facilitate workshops and host compelling presentations
- In-depth knowledge on both - business side Eagle PACE data model and application
- Find and Fix data issues in immense complexity of data feeds
- Accurate data reporting possible within tight deadlines
Qualifications for consulting associate
- Functional and/or technical knowledge of at technologies that support the corporate real estate environment
- Ability to create client presentations and deliver them effectively
- Delivering group presentations including detailed technical demonstrations, executive and end user training classes and conducting consultative planning sessions
- Ability to work autonomously to drive tasks and revenue on accounts
- Demonstrate ability to identify issues & trends
- Synthesizes analyses well & highlights implications of findings