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Vanguard Solutions Consultant - IV in Malvern, Pennsylvania
The GIFS Solutions Consulting Group is growing! We are internal consultants with IT knowledge, investment acumen, and deep analytical skills leveraging systems thinking and support our partners in Investment Management, Financial Management, Portfolio Review and Global Risk & Security.
The ideal candidate collaborates with the business to strategically advise how technology, education, and process innovation can help them to meet their business goals. With a high level of IT and business acumen, proactively identifies opportunities and demonstrates possibilities that technology can enable. Solution Consultants are key participants in business technology planning, gaining a holistic view of the technology portfolio to reveal cross-functional and/or cross departmental opportunities. Solutions Consultants are a trusted member of the IT community and are relied on by the business to achieve their goals with people, process, technology and data solutions. They use ideation and experimentation methods, and provide strategic guidance to internal clients with regard to people, technology and enabling or refining major business processes.
In this role, you will:
Build productive working relationships with key partners to ensure recommendations and priorities are understood by all impacted parties. Leverage influencing and negotiation skills to champion optimal solutions. Act as an advocate for change to introduce new technologies and processes to shape the business strategy.
Translates business opportunities into strategic and cost-effective solution alternatives, along with high-level estimates and cost benefit analysis that supports the recommendations.
Partner with business and IT leaders to align business initiatives, priorities, and schedules based on strategic business and IT plans.
Influence the broad organization by leveraging knowledge of existing technology solutions and options, and the research that needs to be done to find new options.
Own and manage the capability landscape for one or more lines of business and its product owners as the business and the industry evolves. Develop deep knowledge of the business area(s) supported and the competitive landscape to provide context for decision-making.
Maintain a comprehensive understanding of business functions. Combine technical and functional knowledge to produce highly functional solutions to business problems.
What it takes:
Minimum of eight years related work experience, with at least three years of development experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
Specializations that will make an impact:
Advanced financial acumen and comfortable using it as a key element in complex projects
Innovative about how to leverage business architecture principles and concepts to conduct effective conversations and tell a story
Expert at analysis (using evidence to reach conclusion) and emerging synthesis (taking disparate information and combining)
Prepares the group’s response to marketplace trends
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.
For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.
We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.
Inclusion Statement
Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”
We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.
Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Vanguard, one of the world's largest investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
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