Technology Consulting Manager

We believe we're best positioned to make a meaningful impact on the economy. Every day, we provide a diverse range of organisations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, we help businesses, communities and our people to flourish.

This role requires excellent analytical skills, extensive technical knowledge, and the ability to understand how technology supports our client's business and organisation goals.

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Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals.

Everything we do is focused on helping clients through their technology related change agenda, from broad business wide strategy planning and transformation, through to specific technical and system related advice. If you enjoy working on a wide-reaching range of projects that will help businesses and communities flourish, you'll fit right in.

The specific responsibilities of the Technology Consultant will vary from client to client, but will typically focus on resolving business problems through the design of technology strategies and architecture, delivery of enterprise applications and digital solutions, and operating model design, often with a focus providing M&A related support.

We're happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we'll support you to balance your work and life.

A look into the role

As an Manager, Technology Consulting within our team practice, you will:

• Assessing technology needs and requirements. This can include assessing both internal needs to support employee activities, as well as customer-facing elements, helping clients build on their existing technology portfolio to reduce complexity, enhance functionality, generate new revenue and reduce costs.


• Examining business and IT capabilities. In addition to understanding target business outcomes and understanding the demand for technology, our Technology Consultants analyse our client's current IT capabilities. This can involve highly technical assessments of application functionality, data architecture and platform technologies. Our Technology Consultants examine these elements of an organisation's IT landscape to fully understand their client's target capability and co-create technology roadmaps.


• Providing technology advice and guidance. Our Technology Consultants work closely with our client leadership team, to provide recommendations and guidance on technologies, services, and systems. This guidance can range from defining technology strategies, guiding clients through the selection of new solutions, to implementing entirely new systems to address the organisation's current and future IT needs.


• Improving process and operational efficiency. Our Technology Consultants identify and utilise methods to improve current processes and uses of technology to better align them with business goals in a drive to improve operational efficiency, reduce cost and support further growth.
  
  Analytical skills -strong assessment and analysis skills such that the consultant can analyse an organisation's current technologies and needs to make recommendations and provide guidance.


• Business strategy - to successfully guide IT decision-making, our technology consultants require a strong sense of business strategy and a high level of familiarity with strategic planning frameworks.


• Digital technologies, operating model and transformation - our consultants require an understanding and proficiency in guiding our clients through the scoping, planning and iterative delivery of initiatives as part of a broader transformation agenda.


• Market expertise - our technology consultants are required to have a broad understand our clients' industries and be able to identify ways that technology can impact market share and create a competitive edge.


• Problem-solving skills - our technology consultants are required to be exceptional problem-solvers, able to assess a client's current shortfalls and devise creative and technical solutions to address these issues.


• Communication skills - our technology consultants require strong written and verbal communication skills, since they are required to interact with personnel throughout all levels of our clients' organisation and frequently work with C-suite leaders
  
  Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of a global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, made up of some 73,000 people in over 150 countries. We're a team of independent thinkers who put quality, inclusion and integrity first. All around the world we bring a different experience to our clients. A better experience. One that delivers the expertise they need in a way that goes beyond. Personal, proactive, and agile. That's Grant Thornton., Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.


Our open and accessible culture means you'll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That's why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.

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Unlike most firms, we're also a shared enterprise. So when the firm does well, everyone does well by taking home a share of the profits. Of course, to get those profits, we need to share ideas and share responsibility for our work, too.

Bring your whole self

Now you've seen our values, it shouldn't be a surprise that we're creating a respectful, open, diverse place to work. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues, is not just the right thing to do, it helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential.

We are committed to making sure that the opportunities within our firm are equally accessible for everyone - regardless of background or gender.

There's more to life than work

Families, children, sports, night classes…the things you do and the people you're with outside work matter. They can inspire, motivate and energise you. Inside the office and out. So if you'd like to work flexibly, let us know. We're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we'll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

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The things you do, and the people you're with outside of work matter, that's why we're happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we'll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance.

Whether that's working reduced contracted hours, working your hours over a shorter period or utilising our 'how we work' framework. Everyone has an immediate right to request a flexible arrangement through our flexible working policy.