Role OverviewWe are seeking a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join our Financial Services Consulting practice as a Forward Deployed Business Analyst (FDBA) This is not a traditional Business Analyst role. As a FDBA, you will be embedded with client teams to own business outcomes, not just document requirements. You will leverage AI as a core part of your workflow to move faster, think deeper, and deliver smarter solutions across financial services organizations. You will act as a strategic advisor, AI operator, and execution partner, using AI to eliminate administrative work and focus your time on problem-solving, stakeholder alignment, and solution design. Responsibilities:AI-Enabled Consulting Delivery: Apply traditional consulting tools and emerging AI-enabled, no-code, low-code, automation, and analytics platforms to accelerate research, analysis, documentation, prototyping, process mapping, stakeholder alignment, and delivery execution. Client Engagement & Delivery: Work directly with client business, operations, product, data, and technology teams to understand strategic objectives, operational challenges, technical constraints, stakeholder priorities, and desired business outcomes. Strategic Problem Solving: Assess current-state processes, systems, data flows, risks, dependencies, and pain points to identify root causes, evaluate business impacts, and help define the design and implementation of strategic initiatives (e.g., operating model transformation, system implementations, process optimization) Technical Business Analysis: Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process flows, data requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, and solution documentation that bridge business stakeholders and technical delivery teams. Solution Design & Implementation Support: Partner with product owners, engineers, architects, data teams, and client stakeholders to support solution design system implementation, workflow optimization, integration planning, UAT, validation, and implementation readiness across front, middle, and back-office platforms. Workstream Ownership & Execution: Own assigned tasks and deliverables by managing timelines, tracking risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies, proactively communicating progress, and helping drive initiatives from analysis through execution. Client-Ready Communication & Deliverables: Prepare structured, accurate, and polished materials, including presentations, executive summaries, business cases, impact assessments, process documentation, status reports, meeting outputs, and stakeholder communications for internal teams, client stakeholders, and senior leaders. This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be added, deleted, or modified at any time based on business needs. 
