Advisory Services
The current climate combines challenge and uncertainty with escalating competition. Clients are increasingly asking for our advice on how to succeed in these conditions. We work with them to address their specific circumstances and to achieve sustainable improvement to their business performance.
Advisory is a fast-moving, high-growth area with huge potential. It offers variety, challenge and the opportunity to become a leading-class business advisor in a dynamic and varied team environment. If this matches your career aspirations, now is the time to apply.
Working in Advisory
As one of our advisors, you’ll work with all types of clients across a broad spectrum of industries on complex assignments. By participating in different project teams, you’ll learn about skills-sets, and provide tailored services and quality service delivery. This great start to your career will include the experiences, learning and coaching you need to achieve success.
Within Advisory we have three key business areas:
Performance Improvement
To achieve their potential, businesses need to sustain and improve their performance in a rapidly changing environment. As one of our advisors, you’ll help many of the world’s leading businesses and government departments tackle their most pressing issues. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary team that will bring diverse perspectives to every challenge. You’ll have the opportunity to build your skills in one of our focused competency groups. These include: finance, customer, supply chain, IT Advisory, people and organization, strategic direction, and program management. You’ll also have the opportunity to team with professionals from other parts of the organization, especially those in Risk. We’ll support your professional growth by enabling you to develop specific competencies and giving you experience of a diverse range of clients and projects.
Risk
Risk management protects business performance and helps clients sustain results. It’s about achieving a clear understanding of different risks and developing plans to manage them. As one of our advisors, you’ll help leading organizations implement a sound approach to risk and control. You’ll help clients develop greater confidence that they can respond to whatever the future may hold. You’ll also team with colleagues from other parts of the business, in particular with our performance improvement professionals. This means helping major global clients transform and sustain business performance. We’ll support your professional growth by enabling you to develop specific competencies and giving you experience of a diverse range of clients and projects.
Information Technology Risk & Assurance (ITRA)
Information technology is one of the key enablers for modern organizations. Our IT risk and assurance professionals help clients leverage technology to achieve a competitive advantage. They advise on how to make IT more efficient and manage the risks associated with running IT operations. They focus on helping clients to optimize and secure technology so that it serves the business effectively and enhances results.
Learn more about the skills-sets or “competencies” that can be applied to performance improvement and risk.
Customer
Our customer professionals help companies define, identify and manage their most valuable customers to increase operational efficiency and enhance performance. They advise clients on how to interact most effectively with their customers through marketing, sales, merchandising and customer service functions. They also advise on customer acquisition and retention strategies that help them improve performance on an ongoing basis.
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Finance
Our finance professionals help assess and transform the finance function to improve performance and effectiveness. They provide insights and recommendations on people, processes and systems and then work with clients to deliver improvements.
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IT Advisory
Our IT Advisory professionals work with commercial and public sector organizations. They provide independent advice on how clients’ IT operations can support their business strategy and its implementation. They provide insights into organizational culture and help align a client’s technology with their people and processes.
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People and Organization
Our people and organization professionals work with leading organizations to measure and monitor staff performance and develop approaches to talent management and succession planning. They also help define organizational structure, and roles and responsibilities. They focus on helping clients achieve their organization’s potential and create a strong employer brand.
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Program Management
Our program management professionals draw on their knowledge and experience to help clients assess and manage large-scale programs. They focus on helping clients to deliver projects on time, within budget and to the desired level of quality.
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Strategic Direction
Our strategic direction professionals help clients define and plan effective execution of their strategic direction and vision. They advise client executives on how to translate corporate strategy and business insight into change. This can be for the client’s entire organization or functions within it.
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Supply Chain and Operations
Our supply chain and operations professionals provide insights into supply chain transformation. They cover sourcing, procurement, inbound logistics, engineering, manufacturing, final assembly, and product service and delivery. This team focuses on helping clients run their supply chains effectively in order to improve their business performance.
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You can also more about daily life in Advisory and discover where an Advisory career could lead.
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