Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowFirst seen 3 days ago

Engagement Manager (Financial Services)

Kenway Consulting5 open roles

Pay
$150,000 – $180,000 a year
Where
Chicago, IL
Work mode
Hybrid
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowEngagement Manager (Financial Services)Kenway Consulting · Chicago, IL

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Kenway Consulting's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: first seen 3 days ago

The posting

About This Position

We are seeking experienced financial services (FS) management professionals interested in generating strategies and delivery of those strategies to drive a greater future for our clients. As an Engagement Manager at Kenway, you will have the opportunity to manage a diverse set of stakeholders, drive critical decisions, and solve complex problems. From day one, you’ll lead projects, teams, and solutions that target the latest business and technical challenges companies are facing today.

Engagement Managers at Kenway are responsible for leading end-to-end delivery of complex client initiatives and managing scope, budget, risks, and teams to ensure high-quality outcomes while applying deep industry and technical expertise. Engagement Managers are also expected to build trusted client relationships, drive account growth, mentor team members, and contribute to cross-functional initiatives that enhance Kenway’s impact and capabilities.

Within Kenway’s Financial Services vertical, Engagement Managers are expected to demonstrate, deploy, and deepen proficiency delivering across the financial services ecosystem, inclusive of banking and capital markets, insurance, wealth and asset management, payments and fintech, and related industries.

Core Traits We Are Seeking

  • Delivery Excellence – Engagement Managers are first and foremost consulting practitioners. Candidates must embrace and demonstrate the ability to deliver exceptional quality firsthand throughout Kenway’s engagements, while leading, coaching, and enabling broader project teams to do the same.
  • Accountability: Engagement Managers must demonstrate a deep sense of integrity, personal responsibility, and commitment to holding others to the same standards. Engagement Managers are the ultimate point of accountability for the health and quality of all activities within and across their projects.
  • Tenacity: Under all circumstances, dynamics, and conditions, Engagement Managers are expected to think, behave, and act proactively. Doing so is crucial for preemptively identifying, mitigating, and preventing issues, while proactively driving progress and taking advantage of opportunities.
  • Design Thinking: In addition to maintaining the integrity of their projects, Engagement Managers are expected to demonstrate creativity, innovation, and intellectual fluidity, flowing between strategic thought leadership, conceptual problem solving, and executional rigor. Engagement Managers must be capable of designing solutions, translating them into executable plans, and flowing between the spectrum of strategy and execution throughout engagements.
  • Professionalism: Given the complexity, magnitude, visibility, and strategic importance of Kenway’s projects, we consistently interface with a diversity of executive leadership. Engagement Managers are expected to demonstrate executive presence, poise, and cogency in all communications and interactions with client, prospect, and internal stakeholders.
  • Aptitude: While Kenway possesses deep institutional expertise and proprietary frameworks, no two projects are the same. Engagement Managers are expected to demonstrate curiosity, climb learning curves quickly, and adapt solutions to the uniqueness of each client and project.
  • Industry Acumen: Engagement Managers within the HLS vertical are expected to demonstrate proficient understanding of industry trends, regulatory landscapes, value chains, business operations, and technical nuances unique to the life sciences and healthcare sectors, while engaging in continuous learning to broaden and deepen their expertise.
  • Functional Acumen: Engagement Managers must have a sound command of programmatic skills to lead projects, while demonstrating an understanding of Kenway’s full suite of services to design solutions and lead engagements with technical and/or non-technical scope.
  • Commitment to Kenway’s Guiding Principles: As critical leaders influencing and interfacing with a breadth of internal and external stakeholders, Engagement Managers must steward Kenway’s culture and demonstrate unwavering commitment to our Guiding Principles.

Responsibilities

Delivery Excellence

  • Own end-to-end delivery for client engagements, managing scope, budget, timeline, risks, and quality, while taking ownership of bookings, minimizing variance between bookings and actuals, and managing discrepancies
  • Lead complex business and technology initiatives across multiple industries
  • Apply deep industry, business, and technical knowledge to solve client challenges and achieve project objectives
  • Drive project teams to deliver high-quality outcomes, coaching, and empowering team members
  • Lead working sessions, presentations, and executive discussions, communicating complex topics clearly and confidently
  • Proactively manage risks, escalations, and resource needs, ensuring alignment with project and account objectives

Client & Relationship Management

  • Build trusted, long-term relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their goals and challenges
  • Identify business problems and opportunities, facilitating discussions and connecting clients with Kenway expertise
  • Support account-level strategy by contributing to proposals, SOWs, pitches, and revenue forecasts
  • Expand and nurture client networks, driving engagement beyond immediate projects, and strategically leverage Kenway deliverables to broaden our footprint and influence

Kenway Impact

  • Leverage mastery of client industries, documenting and sharing knowledge to grow Kenway’s expertise
  • Coach and mentor team members, preparing talent for future leadership opportunities
  • Contribute to initiatives and passion projects that drive Kenway’s growth, culture, and capabilities
  • Leverage Challenger Sale behaviors to advance client outcomes, delivering insights, recommendations, and innovative solutions

Qualifications & Credentials

  • 8+ years of experience in leading complex business or technology initiatives
  • Financial services strategy consulting experience is preferred, but a combination of strategy consulting and financial services industry experience will be considered
  • Bachelor’s degree, with advanced degrees or certifications in related finance, business, economics, or quantitative fields preferred (e.g., MBA, CFA, CPA, CAMS)
  • Proficient understanding of one or more of the unique value chains across the Financial Services ecosystem, including but not limited to the following: Banking & Capital Markets: Retail and commercial banking, lending and credit, treasury, capital markets operations Insurance: Underwriting, claims processing, policy administration, actuarial and risk assessment Wealth & Asset Management: Investment management, wealth advisory, fund administration, trading operations Payments & Fintech: Payments processing, digital banking, embedded finance, fintech platform integration
  • Deep understanding of key financial services data domains and concepts (e.g., transaction and payments data, credit and risk data, customer/KYC data, regulatory reporting data) and experience translating data into actionable business, risk, and compliance outcomes
  • Strong command of the financial services regulatory and compliance landscape (e.g., Dodd-Frank, Basel III/IV, BSA/AML, KYC/CDD, GLBA, SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR and state privacy laws) and its implications for project delivery across the FS ecosystem
  • Familiarity with industry-standard platforms (e.g., core banking platforms such as FIS, Fiserv, and Temenos; CRM/wealth platforms such as Salesforce Financial Services Cloud; trading and portfolio systems such as Bloomberg AIM, Charles River, and Aladdin; policy administration systems such as Guidewire and Duck Creek) and an understanding of the technical nuances unique to the financial services sector
  • Demonstrated success identifying, scoping, and implementing high-impact financial services use cases (e.g., fraud and AML detection, regulatory reporting automation, customer 360/personalization, risk and credit analytics, digital transformation) with measurable business outcomes
  • Deep knowledge of core consulting skills, including, but not limited to, strategic planning and road-mapping, program governance, risk management, stakeholder management, financial and resource allocation, and change management
  • Proven experience in leading resources, preferably in a project-based model
  • Demonstrated success in client business development, identifying new opportunities, and authoring impactful client proposals and SOWs

What our Company looks like

Kenway Consulting is a Management and IT consulting firm looking to expand our growing staff. Your strengths in leading teams across the designing, implementing and constructing reusable services and frameworks are needed to drive the solutions to our clients’ critical technology and business problems. You will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with our world-class clients. Our projects tend to focus primarily on enterprise solutions, straddling our clients’ technology and business organizations. Our solution-based approach leverages the diverse combination of skills and experience of our staff. We strive to provide the highest possible quality work product delivered by our dynamic and collaborative consultants. We provide an inclusive team-driven environment, working together to identify clients, technologies and people in support of Kenway’s ambitious growth targets. We are focused on the unique skills and interests of each individual staff member. We offer numerous career paths and opportunities to continually develop your skills and experience. We offer a supportive environment and recognize that you have a life outside of your job. We staff project teams to deliver the highest quality work for our clients while honoring the many facets of our consultants’ lives.

What we offer our Employees: Kenway offers the ability to chart your individual career path based on your expertise and passions. An environment that encourages you to identify new opportunities and the support to make it happen. An atmosphere that promotes a balanced lifestyle by working with local (Chicagoland) and national clients in a flexible consulting model. The opportunity to build and be part of a fun and collaborative team. A competitive compensation package and exceptional benefits.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Kenway Consulting's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Kenway Consulting's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Kenway Consulting's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.