Each year, Business Talent Group releases our High-End Independent Talent Report, looking across industries and business functions to analyze how business leaders deploy independent consultants, executives, experts, and project managers to complete critical work and meet their goals. Here are the top trends in how financial services industry leaders deployed these highly skilled talent in 2020.
The financial services industry is facing big digital changes. To meet them, executives are seeking independent expertise in acquiring and developing the products that will keep them competitive—and streamlining operations to optimize these new organizational competencies.
PROJECT CATEGORIES: Financial Services
| 46% Strategy |
| 30% Operations |
| 15% Transformation |
| 5% Interim Executive |
| 4% Organization |
MOST IN-DEMAND PROJECTS
Business Processes
M&A
Marketing and Sales Strategy
Product Strategy and Launch
Post-Merger Integration
Interim Executive
IT and Tech Transformation
MOST IN-DEMAND SKILLS
Project Management
Process Optimization and Transformation
Program Management Office (PMO)
Market Landscape
Product Management
Digital, Internet, and Mobile Marketing
Post-Merger Integration
SAMPLE FINANCIAL SERVICES PROJECTS
- Plan a data migration to a new platform connecting financial institutions
- Map processes and optimize workflows within derivative services
- Evaluate processes to streamline and improve the end-to-end M&A value chain
- Build user surveys and analyze data to implement a new customer acquisition strategy
- Assess opportunities for incorporating artificial intelligence, information architecture, and machine learning into the process roadmap
