SPINNAKER IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER CONSULTING FIRMS
We’re a hands-on firm built around a team of experts with real-world business experience helping companies navigate complex business challenges. We’re changing the consulting game because we’re doers, we’re in the trenches working side by side with our clients to do what needs to be done to solve problems and advance success. We make it our mission to take a collaborative approach—with our clients and with our team. We are looking for dynamic, experienced professionals to build our team and help our clients get there faster.
Working With Us
At Spinnaker we’re building a people first culture. A team that is motivated to help clients succeed, learn from our team members and have fun while we do it. Whether on a client site, in the office or at a quarterly All Hands team meeting, we take the time to invest in relationships.
What you’ll find at Spinnaker:
- Opportunities for continued training and education
- A Career Choice program
- Flexible schedules and work location
- A fast-paced, growing company
- Team offsite events
- Generous holiday and vacation time
YOUR CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Business Analyst
As a Business Analyst at Spinnaker Consulting Group, you will apply your strategic, analytical and technical skills to help clients solve complex business problems and achieve their objectives.
Your Role:
- Collaborate with our clients to identify opportunities ranging from product design and marketing to operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Perform statistical and other quantitative and qualitative analyses utilizing tools and applications including SAS, SQL, and Teradata or similar relational database tools to develop strategic business insights.
- Prepare presentations of complex concepts and research to non-specialist audiences and executives.
Your Experience:
- You have a love of analysis and are an accomplished user of SAS, SQL, and Teradata.
- You have five or more years’ experience working in a professional environment with a focus on marketing and/or risk analytics, business intelligence and business operations.
- You have experience identifying a broad variety of business challenges and opportunities for improvement and are comfortable making strategic or tactical recommendations to solve them.
- You develop problem frame-works, hypotheses, conduct test and analysis to drive solution development.
- You define the scope of operational feasibility, support implementation efforts and develop a monitoring plan.
- You are experienced in leading project delivery and communicating effectively to a wide audience.
- You have the proven ability to gather, research and structure data needed to solve complex business problems.
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component.
- You earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your technical knowledge. MBA is advantageous.
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Business Risk Consultant
As a Business Risk Consultant, you will leverage your operations management experience to help clients solve problems, remove process impediments, and implement compliant, sustainable solutions.
Your Role:
- Lead execution of operational processes and policies
- Support internal and external audits/exams
- Partner with first and second line of defense partners from the business risk office, compliance, AML, and legal when developing or enhancing processes, test plans, or customer facing communications
- Develop/improve documentation related top operational policy, desktop procedures and training materials
- Enhance/perform risk transaction monitoring/QA/QC processes
- Perform actions and activities related to the execution of the issue management life cycle to address operational and regulatory gaps
- Collaborate with other product/project managers and developers to develop business requirements, determine prioritization, and implement enhancements to risk operations
- Manage risks related to regulatory guidance and build project plans to address violations
Your Experience:
- You have ten or more years of professional experience in operations management in financial services
- You have experience working in 1st line operations organizations
- Collections, recoveries, risk, testing, QA/QC, or compliance experience is preferred
- Project, process, or product management experience is preferred
- Ability to influence client decision makers and drive results
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component
- You have earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your subject matter expertise
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Client Relationship Manager (San Antonio, TX ONLY)
As a Client Relationship Manager at Spinnaker Consulting Group you play a critical role in ensuring our clients derive maximum benefit from our products and services. This high visibility customer-oriented position acts as an interface between our clients and us, making sure our consultants are appropriately supported in order to exceed client expectations and strengthen relationships.
Your Role:
- You will partner with key client contacts to ensure Statements of Work (SOW) and Requests for Proposal and Services (RFP & RFS) swiftly move from draft to execution, addressing any changes that need to be made and ensuring accuracy.
- You will conduct business reviews to ensure clients are satisfied with their products and services, escalating any feedback that can be used to enhance productivity and improve performance.
- You will be responsible for quality management and reporting on the overall health of all client engagements, liaising with project teams to ensure adherence to engagement delivery standards, tracking trends, removing obstacles and driving portfolio improvements.
- You will serve as a single point of contact for procurement across all projects, creating transparency around procurement changes, assisting practice leads with large contract execution and driving timely invoice payments by client.
- You will support effective resource management, helping team leads ensure consultants onboard smoothly, serving as ‘social chair’ for on-site consultants and assisting with the set up and execution of team events.
- You will help support our business development strategy by following up on new client referrals and opportunities for new business as well as contributing to a positive customer experience..
Your Experience:
- You are a natural relationship builder and thrive in an environment where you have multiple internal and external customers, working cross-functionally to identify and solve for problems and unearth opportunities.
- You have an aptitude for organization and standardization, a collaborative approach to problem solving and a ‘can do’ attitude.
- You have five or more years’ experience working within a financial services organization supporting and driving effective project management.
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component..
If your experience closely matches the job requirements and you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker, please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Compliance Advisory Consultant
As a Compliance Advisory Consultant, you will leverage your deep compliance experience to help clients understand regulatory requirements and ensure compliance with those regulations in their day-to-day marketing and operations.
Your Role:
- Provide guidance in all aspects of compliance, taking a consultative approach to the compliance management process
- Partner with first line of defense and legal counsel to provide compliance advice and support in large scale enterprise projects
- Analyze new and pending changes in laws and regulations in order to ensure compliance
- Review compliance monitoring plans, identifying monitoring and process gaps
- Perform product assessments through the lenses of regulatory compliance and operational efficiency; focusing on customer protection
- Conduct end-to-end risk assessments including identification of inherent risks, existing controls (if present), and resulting residual risks
- Support Compliance Management Program build, providing guidance on or execution across specific aspects of the program
Your Experience:
- You have ten or more years of professional experience in financial services
- You have seven or more years of compliance expertise with deep knowledge working from Top 10 banks, regulators including FDIC, CFPB, OCC, and/or credit reporting agencies (ten or more years is the preferred)
- Subject matter expertise in industry trends and regulatory requirements
- You have the ability to influence client decision makers and drive results
- You have strong leadership skills and presence with a proven record for leading through change
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component.
- You have experience driving innovation, setting the strategic direction of a program, and influencing stakeholders through change
- You develop influential relationships based on trust and shared risk objectives to deliver outstanding business impact
- You have earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your technical knowledge
If your experience closely matches the job requirements and you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker, please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Data Analyst
As a Data Analyst at Spinnaker Consulting Group, you will leverage analytic and technical skills to innovate, build, and execute well-managed data solutions and capabilities that are critical to our clients.
Your Role:
- Develop tools, techniques, metrics and dashboards for insights and data visualization.
- Analyze current-state reports based on future-state needs and determine gaps, propose solutions, and then implement them; leaning heavily on automation techniques.
- Help our clients understand principles of data quality management and work with them to identify critical business metrics as well as design a project framework that will solve for problems and evolve seamlessly with their operating model.
- Interview operations and business leaders to identify critical business metrics which gauge the health of the operation and develop future-state reports.
- Build and deploy new reporting techniques and metrics, develop appropriate change management and communications as needed.
Your Experience:
- You are passionate about data, have a love of analysis and are an accomplished user of SQL, Python and Tableau. (Experience with Hadoop, UNIX/Shell and Business Objects is desirable).
- You have five or more years’ experience working in a professional environment with a focus on data rationalization and visualization, analytics, and business operations and/or marketing.
- You are experienced in leading project delivery and communicating effectively to a wide audience.
- You have the proven ability to gather, research and structure data needed to solve complex business problems.
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component.
- You earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your technical knowledge.
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Process Management Consultant
As a Process Management Consultant, you will leverage your process management experience to help clients understand and improve their critical marketing and operational processes to drive better financial results and outcomes.
Your Role:
- Provide strategic leadership for new initiatives impacting risk management, including Lean and Agile implementations with heavy emphasis on process improvement/optimization.
- Perform end-to-end risk process reviews, documenting SIPOC, procedures, roles/responsibilities, RACI, engagement models, communication strategies, and controls for organizations; identifying risks and process opportunities along the way
- Lead execution of operational processes and policies
- Support internal and external audits/exams
- Consult 1st and 2nd line of defense partners from the business risk office, compliance, AML, and legal when developing or enhancing processes, test plans, or customer facing communications
- Perform actions and activities related to the execution of the issue management life cycle to address operational and regulatory gaps
- Collaborate with other product/project managers and developers to develop business requirements, determine prioritization, and implement enhancements to high-risk operations
- Manage risks related to regulatory guidance and build project plans to address violations
Your Experience:
- You have ten or more years of professional experience in financial services
- You have five or more years of process management experience
- Experience working in collections, recoveries, risk, or compliance organizations is preferred
- Experience working in roles with significant exposure to data-intensive processes is preferred
- You have experience and interest in solving problems and improving processes, not just managing them
- Project management and Product Owner experience is preferred
- You have experience working in 1st line operations organizations; 2nd line experience is preferred
- You have the ability to influence client decision makers and drive results
- You are comfortable working in an environment where the problem and solution are not black-and-white
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component
- You have earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your subject matter expertise
- Lean/Six Sigma certifications are preferred
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Project Management Consultant
As a Project Management Consultant, you will leverage your project management experience to help clients execute effectively and efficiency on their most important projects and imperatives.
Your Role:
- Own end-to-end, enterprise-wide Project Management discipline by establishing processes and procedures to guide the conduct of project management activities across the organization
- Oversee all phases of the project including initiating, requirements gathering, development and build of functional and technical designs, testing, training, communication, and implementation
- Assemble the project team; assign and manage individual responsibilities and identify appropriate resources needed
- Develop and manage work plans, performing project risk assessments, managing stakeholder expectations, managing scope, managing budget, and managing all other day-to-day aspects and phases of the projects
- Develop, document and execute detailed communication plans specific to the project type, focused on the needs of the stakeholders
- Manage the prioritization and change management processes while providing valuable problem-solving skills to identify ways to resolve issues and keep the project on track
- Drive post project success follow-ups, including FLoD testing results and other measurable results
- Collaborate with internal business partners to develop a solid understanding of our business, procedures and operations
- Select and implement project management software tools for enterprise-wide use
Your Experience:
- You have ten or more years of professional experience in financial services
- You have five or more years of project management experience
- Experience working in collections, recoveries, risk, or compliance organizations is preferred
- Familiarity with establishing and managing a PMO is preferred
- Product Owner experience is preferred
- You have the ability to influence client decision makers and drive results
- You are flexible and can adapt to rapidly changing priorities
- You can effectively communicate with a broad and diverse audience and work successfully with all levels across the organization
- You are able to rapidly learn key business design concepts of given project, internal project tools and project management methodology/related processes
- You are comfortable working in an environment where the problem and solution are not black-and-white
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component
- You have earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your subject matter expertise
- PMP/Agile certifications are preferred
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Project Manager
As a Project Manager at Spinnaker Consulting Group, you will leverage your extensive leadership and influencing skills to drive strategy and execute on high priority initiatives for our clients.
Your Role:
- You will act as a project lead to facilitate the delivery of large, complex projects across multiple client divisions and disciplines, serving as product owner or scrum master when necessary.
- You will deliver reliable, timely and continuous results using a range of Waterfall and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/etc.)
- You will partner cross-functionally and lead project teams to define and document scope for different phases of the project and implement a standardization process for successive projects.
- You will design and manage implementation plans in a complex and dynamic environment; revising where necessary to meet the changing needs of the client and their business.
- You will ensure transparency and governance by maintaining appropriate documentation including project plans, roadmaps and go-live plans, monitoring project timelines, tracking costs, resource planning, change management and managing program risks; quickly escalating concerns when they arise.
- You will be responsible for facilitating all agile team engagements when acting as SCRUM Master including daily huddles, demonstrations, and retrospectives. You will remove obstacles that impede the team’s progress, protect the team from outside distractions, and lead the team in achieving consensus on important decisions.
Your Experience:
- You have an aptitude for standardization, a collaborative approach to problem solving and have proven ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver on-time solutions for a variety of clients and businesses.
- You have five or more years’ experience working in a professional environment applying Agile, Waterfall and Lean methodologies to drive business operations and continuous improvement for your customers.
- You are experienced in leading project delivery and communicating effectively to a wide audience.
- You have the proven ability to gather, research and structure information needed to solve complex business problems and build and manage a team to drive results that exceed expectations.
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component.
- You earned a bachelor’s degree in a related discipline; MBA, PMP, Scrum or Agile certifications are highly desirable.
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
Risk Advisory Consultant
As a Risk Management Consultant, you will leverage your risk management experience to lead clients through risk program reviews, perform risk advisory, and implement best-in-class risk management solutions.
Your Role:
- Lead efforts to perform end-to-end RCSA and control plan reviews and/or creation
- Lead execution of operational processes and policies
- Support internal and external audits/exams
- Partner with first and second line of defense partners from the business risk office, compliance, AML, and legal when developing or enhancing processes, test plans, or customer facing communications
- Develop/improve documentation related top operational policy, desktop procedures and training materials
- Enhance/perform risk transaction monitoring/QA/QC processes
- Perform actions and activities related to the execution of the issue management life cycle to address operational and regulatory gaps
- Collaborated with other product/project managers and developers to develop business requirements, determine prioritization, and implement enhancements to risk operations
- Manage risks related to regulatory guidance and build project plans to address violations
Your Experience:
- You have ten or more years of professional experience, preferably in financial services
- You have five or more years of risk management experience; combination of 1st line (Business Risk Office) and 2nd line (E.g. Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk, Compliance, etc.) experience is preferred
- Experience working in collections, recoveries, or compliance organizations is preferred
- You have experience developing, testing, or managing of controls or QA/QC
- Project, process, or product management experience is preferred
- Ability to influence client decision makers and drive results
- You are self-directed, accountable, creative and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client facing environment with a travel component
- You have earned Bachelors’ or Masters’ degree(s) in a related discipline and strive to expand your subject matter expertise
If you are ready to get on board with Spinnaker please submit your application today. We look forward to getting to know you!
YOUR COLLEAGUES
Each member of our leadership team has over 10 years of experience running and managing businesses in addition to critical job specific competencies. And, every member of the Spinnaker organization has significant experience working in businesses to help them run more efficiently or to be more customer-focused.
In short, you won’t find “career consultants” within our ranks and that blended experience ensures our associates and clients achieve their maximum potential.
YOUR CAREER GROWTH
Each day at Spinnaker provides invaluable on the job training across the entire consulting spectrum and our collaborative style allows for maximum knowledge transfer. We challenge ourselves and our associates to grow and learn, to pass on maximum value to our clients; proactively encouraging knowledge expansion and continuing education while promoting a ‘work anywhere’ philosophy that facilitates great work-life balance. Geography shouldn’t exclude you from career advancement!
“I chose Spinnaker because of the many opportunities both the company and role offer. You can immediately dive in, contribute, and make a difference. It’s exciting to see immediate results. I look forward to watching the company grow and develop.”
Kendal Sence
Consultant
“One of the most special things about working at Spinnaker is the caliber of its people, all motivated by excellence, all fostering a truly friendly and cooperative environment.”
Laurent Robert
Consultant
“I chose Spinnaker because of the leadership team and their desire to support clients and associates in the most respectful way, by listening to their needs. I love the autonomy and flexibility to manage my work with my clients while having full support from my leadership team when needed.”
Belinda Allen
Risk Compliance Consultant
Spinnaker Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Spinnaker Consulting Group promotes a drug-free workplace.