Electric Mind’s Capital Markets Practice helps clients reimagine their operating models, data architectures, and control environments across the trade lifecycle. We partner with leading institutions to modernize their front-to-back value chain, drive operational efficiency, and enable regulatory and market-driven transformation.
The Consultant is a junior member of Electric Mind's Capital & Private Markets strategy and business architecture practice. You work directly alongside Senior Consultants and Managers on transformation and advisory engagements, contributing to operating model design, business architecture analysis, and regulatory change, building the domain expertise and advisory skills needed to progress to Senior Consultant. This is a strategy and advisory role, not a delivery or BA role: you are here to think, analyze, and advise on capital and private markets problems, with increasing independence over time. You will be expected to contribute meaningfully from day one with a foundation of real financial services domain knowledge.
- Contributes to workstream analysis under Senior Consultant guidance
- Conducts current-state research, interviews, and documentation
- Drafts components of operating model and architecture artefacts
- Supports workshop preparation and facilitates discrete sessions
- Builds domain expertise with active mentorship from seniors
- Client-facing within a supervised context
Strategy & Operating Model
- Contribute to current-state assessments of capital markets or private markets operating models, conducting structured stakeholder interviews, synthesizing findings, and drafting diagnostic outputs under direction
- Support the design of target-state operating models by researching industry benchmarks, documenting design options, and preparing draft sections of TOM artefacts for senior review
- Perform capability gap analysis across people, process, data, and technology dimensions; translate findings into clear, structured documentation
- Prepare materials for and actively participate in client workshops; facilitate discrete workshop modules when ready to do so under supervision
- Produce well-structured, client-ready written outputs: analytical memos, slide sections, and status summaries
- Prepare and structure data, analysis, and supporting materials for operating model design sessions and client presentations
Business Architecture
- Draft business architecture artefacts including process flows, capability maps, and RACI matrices under the guidance of a Senior Consultant
- Research and document vendor landscape options to support platform evaluation workstreams, gathering functional capability data, preparing comparison matrices, and summarizing selection criteria
- Map AS-IS operational processes through structured interviews and document reviews, identifying pain points and inefficiencies for escalation to senior team members summaries that meet Electric Mind's quality bar with light editing from seniors
Internal & Practice Development
- Contribute to proposal development by preparing research, benchmarks, and drafting supporting sections under Manager guidance
- Actively pursue capital and private markets domain knowledge development — reading, internal knowledge-sharing, and on-the-job learning from engagement work
- Contribute to Electric Mind's internal knowledge base by documenting engagement learnings, market research, and reusable analytical frameworks
What Outstanding Looks Like
- Consistently produces first-draft artefacts that Senior Consultants describe as 'nearly there' with minimal structural rework needed
- Asks insightful questions in client sessions that demonstrate genuine domain curiosity and understanding
- Proactively identifies a gap or inconsistency in a client's current-state and brings it, with a hypothesis, to the Senior Consultant
- By 12–18 months, capable of owning a contained workstream with light-touch senior oversight
Candidates should possess a foundational understanding of capital markets and/or private markets gained through prior industry experience, consulting engagements, education, or adjacent financial services roles. While deep subject matter expertise is not expected at the Consultant level, candidates should be able to engage credibly in client discussions, understand industry terminology, and demonstrate an appreciation for key operational, regulatory, data, and technology concepts.
Preferred experience includes:
- Understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle and the interaction between front office, middle office, and back office functions across one or more asset classes.
- Familiarity with post-trade operations, including clearing, settlement, reconciliations, custody, collateral management, and exception management processes.
- Awareness of OTC derivatives lifecycle processes, regulatory reporting obligations, and the operational impact of market regulations and industry change initiatives.
- Understanding of the importance of reference data, market data, and data quality in supporting operational efficiency, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- Exposure to common capital markets technology platforms and ecosystems, including trading, operations, data, and workflow solutions.
- Understanding of private markets fund structures, including GP/LP relationships, capital calls, distributions, investor servicing, and fund administration activities.
- Familiarity with private markets operating models, investor reporting requirements, and the roles performed by fund administrators and service providers.
- Awareness of the operational and reporting differences across private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure investment strategies.
- Exposure to the technology and data challenges associated with private markets, including investor servicing, fund accounting, portfolio monitoring, and data management.
Candidates should demonstrate intellectual curiosity, a willingness to deepen their domain expertise, and the ability to quickly apply industry knowledge within client engagements. Domain knowledge will be assessed as part of the interview process through practical discussion and scenario-based questions.
- Operating Model Analysis
- Process Mapping
- Business Architecture (Developing)
- Gap Analysis
- Structured Research
- PowerPoint (Advanced)
- Excel (Advanced)
- Visio/Lucidchart
- Miro/Figlam
- Jira/Confluence
- Stakeholder Interviewing
- Workshop Facilitation (Developing)
- Analytical Writing
- Regulatory Research
- 3–5 years of experience in a strategy consulting, financial services advisory, or capital/private markets operational role
- Exposure to at least one structured analytical or advisory engagement — research, assessment, operating model review, or regulatory change — in a financial services context
- Demonstrable foundation of capital markets OR private markets domain knowledge, evidenced
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
