Job Opportunities at Monocle

Monocle is looking for an experienced professional to join our team as a management consultant at Manager level.

As a Manager at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Taking on a senior role on Monocle’s consulting engagements with our clients
• Taking responsibility for the successful delivery of projects
• Solving complex industry specific problems
• Mentoring analysts and consultants, including providing career guidance and support
• Identifying opportunities to grow with existing and new clients
• Supporting colleagues in project delivery
• Conducting business and data analysis
• Designing and implementing management reports and dashboards
• Writing, reading and analysing various computer programming languages
• Continuously developing business knowledge and technical skills in the areas in which Monocle provides consulting services

The successful candidate must:

• Hold a degree, with strong preference for a post graduate qualification.
• Have five years or more relevant experience in the financial services industry.
• Have subject matter knowledge in banking and/or insurance.
• Have demonstrable experience in successful project delivery or completing tasks.
• Have a proven track record in leading large team.

In addition, the following would be advantageous:

• Relevant consulting experience to banks and insurers.
• Good technical skills, including experience with tools such as SQL, SAS, Python and Business Intelligence applications.
• A professional qualification in finance and risk management, such as CFA and/or FRM.

The ideal Monocle Manager also:

Is able to work in a dynamic environment where one day never looks like another.

• Is enthusiastic in their approach to their work.
• Has a hands-on approach and is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in.
• Regards themselves as a high performer and thought leader.
• Is an excellent communicator with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Works well under pressure to meet client objectives.
• Has experience in system design and implementation in a change environment.
• Is experienced in client relationship management.
• Is experienced in new business generation and writing proposals.
• Is sociable and enjoys interacting with others, both at work and at social events.
• Works well independently and in a team.
• Shares Monocle’s values.

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Monocle is looking for an experienced professional to join our team as a Consultant. As a Consultant at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Solving complex industry specific problems.
• Conducting business analysis and documenting requirements.
• Performing data analysis and data mining on large datasets.
• Documenting functional and technical requirements for large system implementations.
• Designing and implementing management reports and dashboards.
• Writing, reading and analysing various computer programming languages.
• Compiling reports and presentations.
• Engaging with senior stakeholders and clients.
• Continuously developing business knowledge and technical skills in the areas in which Monocle provides consulting services.

The successful candidate must:

• Hold a degree, with strong preference for a post graduate qualification.
• Have two years or more relevant experience in the financial services industry.
• Have subject matter knowledge in banking and/or insurance.

Additionally, the following would be advantageous:

• Relevant consulting experience to banks and insurers.
• Good technical skills, including experience with tools such as SQL, SAS, Python and Business Intelligence applications.
• A professional qualification in finance and risk management, such as CFA and/or FRM.

The ideal Monocle Consultant:

• Has an enquiring mind and is eager to learn and improve their professional skillset.
• Is able to work in a dynamic environment where one day never looks like another.
• Is enthusiastic in their approach to their work.
• Regards themselves as a high performer.
• Is an excellent communicator with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Works well under pressure to meet client objectives.
• Is sociable and enjoys interacting with others, both at work and at social events.
• Works well independently and in a team.
• Shares Monocle’s values.

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Monocle is looking for the perfect candidate to join our team as an Analyst. As an Analyst at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Absorb and process information sufficiently in order to deliver to our clients’ requirements.
• Perform tasks in a timely and effective manner, aligned to the specifications.
• Solving industry specific problems.
• Conducting business analysis and documenting requirements.
• Performing data analysis tasks on large data sets.
• Design and implement management reports and dashboards.
• Write, read and analyse various computer programming languages.
• Engaging with Monocle clients.
• Continuously developing business knowledge and technical skills in the areas in which Monocle provides consulting services.

The successful candidate must meet the following requirements:

• Hold a relevant degree with strong preference for a post graduate qualification.
• Have a strong academic track record.
• Have a keen interest in working with banks and insurers.
• Have some experience in the financial services industry will be advantageous. 
• Have a strong desire to learn and upskill subject matter knowledge and technical abilities.
• Have good technical and programming skills are advantageous.
• Be on their way to a professional qualification in finance and risk management such as CFA and/or FRM is advantageous.

The ideal Monocle Analyst also:

• Has an enquiring mind and is eager to learn and improve their professional skillset.
• Is able to work in a dynamic environment where one day never looks like another.
• Is enthusiastic in their approach to their work.
• Regards themselves as a high performer.
• Is an excellent communicator with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Works well under pressure to meet client objectives.
• Is sociable and enjoys interacting with others, both at work and at social events.
• Works well independently and in a team.
• Shares Monocle’s values.

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As a Data Engineer at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Solving complex industry specific problems.
• Performing data analysis and data mining on large datasets.
• Designing and building technical frameworks to extract/transform/load data from various sources utilising applications such as SQL or ‘big data’ technologies (as required by client).
• Facilitating solutions/applications throughout the different project lifecycles, from design to development, testing, production release and the provision of post live support.
• Advising clients on data architecture and database design.
• Providing support to data and business analysts to ensure the most optimised technical process is implemented, be it through architecture design, application utilised or code logic applied.
• Engaging with senior stakeholders and clients.
• Continuously developing business knowledge and technical skills in the areas in which Monocle provides consulting services

The successful candidate must:

• Hold a relevant Information Science or Data degree with strong preference for a post graduate qualification.
• Have two years or more of relevant experience.
• Possess in-depth knowledge and experience in SQL (creation of procs, creation of databases etc).
• Have experience with other power platform applications such as Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Bi.
• Have experience processing large amounts of structured or unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources through setting up different API’s or other data integration patterns.
• Have knowledge of other scripting languages such as Java, C++, Linux, Ruby, PHP, Python, and R.
• Have knowledge and experience with cloud solutions such as Azure or AWS as they pertain to architecture, solution design, development and implementation.

The following would also be advantageous:

• Relevant consulting experience to banks and insurers.
• A strong desire to learn and upskill business knowledge

The ideal Monocle Consultant also:

• Has an enquiring mind and is eager to learn and improve their professional skillset.
• Is able to work in a dynamic environment where one day never looks like another.
• Is enthusiastic in their approach to their work.
• Regards themselves as a high performer.
• Is an excellent communicator with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Works well under pressure to meet client objectives.
• Is sociable and enjoys interacting with others, both at work and at social events.
• Works well independently and in a team.
• Shares Monocle’s values

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As a Business Development Consultant at Monocle your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Working with the business development team, research staff, and Executives to increase sales opportunities within our targeted industries.
• Prospect for new clients by networking, cold calling, advertising and/or other means of generating interest from potential clients.
• Attend conferences and other networking events to meet up with new clients and develop leads.
• Developed a detailed, validated potential client contact list for business development activities.
• Set up meetings between client decision makers and Senior Executives.
• Support the team to build a robust pipeline of clients and potential opportunities.
• Drive targeted business development campaigns.
• Research and building relationships with new clients.

The successful candidate must:

• Hold a degree in Finance, Marketing and/or other relevant business qualification.
• Have proven track record of working in a target-driven environment and/or meeting and exceeding set targets.
• Excellent communication and strong administration skills.
• Have previous sales experience within a consulting environment will be highly advantageous (minimum of 2 to 5 years maximum).

In addition, the following would be advantageous:

• Relevant consulting or sales experience to banks and insurers.
• Experience with sales and CRM tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

The ideal Business Development Consultant also:

• Is able to work in a dynamic environment where one day never looks like another.
• Is enthusiastic in their approach to their work.
• Has a hands-on approach and is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in.
• Regards themselves as a high performer.
• Is an excellent communicator with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Works well under pressure to meet team objectives.
• Is experienced in cold calling and building out a client network.
• Is sociable and enjoys interacting with others, both at work and at social events.
• Works well independently and in a team.
• Shares Monocles values.