Strategy Consultant, FinTech Strategy Consultancy, Amsterdam

Core business: help clients design, build and scale digital banks.

Advising clients on innovation and digital transformation, delivering end-to-end support from strategy onto operating model design and implementation.

They believe FinTech offers significant potential to create better financial services but recognize that many digital initiatives fail to deliver.

Therefore, they help revamping existing organizations and optimizing operations or building out entirely new digital banking ventures thanks to in-depth knowledge of banking and FinTech. Combining strategy consulting with implementation to design and build the bank of the future.

About the firm: boutique strategy consultancy, founded by an ex-BCG Consultant and Banker.

Est. in 2017 with the aim of improving financial services to better serve people’s lives. Be it FinTech companies, neobanks or incumbents, they help their clients build the bank of the future.

Headquartered in Amsterdam, their team of expert consultants and international partners traverse all aspects of digital financial services moving clients from inception to strategy and implementation.

The company is able to compete with big consulting firms, thanks to:

• high quality of work
• in-depth domain expertise
• simpler and flexible set-up
• “what you see is what you get” approach

USPs

• Experts and thought leaders in financial services and digital banking (focus is on FinTech and building the bank of the future)
• Combining strategy with implementation: able to design what is feasible and build what has been envisioned
• International view: offering a global approach to their knowledge and expertise, working for clients across the globe
• Building long-term client relationships: they are the people who work on the case: committed, experienced and ambitious.
• Bringing long-term value creation for clients and improving/ educating the overall market to create better financial services

Background founder

Expert in FinTech and Digital Banking. Experienced strategist, with a focus on retail banking and payments. Wide international work experience, structured, goal-oriented thinker, with strong analytical skills and sound business knowledge. Bringing a wealth of experience in digital banking from across the globe. Passionate about innovation and creating better financial services.

Human Capital

There is a strong belief in investing in Human Capital, thus the company is very selective in terms of its recruiting endeavors, bringing on board a diverse set of high caliber professionals who are able to do great work, deliver high quality with a vision of building a small team that punches well above its weight.

Team of achievers

The team includes experienced consultants (Boston Consulting Group, Oliver Wyman, KPMG ) and senior experts (retail & SME banking, payments, lending, IT), bringing a wealth of experience.

Vision

Financial services can be done better, they truly care to do so, by improving the customer experience, cost efficiency and drive financial inclusion. Enabling their clients to have a positive impact on people’s lives.

Mission

They strive to shape the future of banking by helping their clients to innovate and create better customer solutions, taking an expert-driven approach

Clients

This strategy consulting firm supports amongst others incumbent banks, neobanks and captives from all over the world. Clients are typically active in Retail Banking, SME Banking and Payments.

Cultural traits

Due to the small set up, you have the opportunity to take initiative.

Looking for client facing ability, to take a leading role in both our client delivery as well as business development activities. Articulate, good communications skills - and style.

Geographic focus

Join the team in the Amsterdam office and help further build the local team. Working with clients and team members across Europe and beyond (e.g., North Africa, Middle East, and the Caribbean).

Recent projects (not exhaustive)

• Neobank end-to-end organization design & implementation in the Caribbean
• Neobank operational development in the Middle East
• Neobank strategy, proposition and operational set-up in the UK
• SME Digital Banking growth strategy & proposition development for leading European neobank
• Open Banking Strategy for leading global BigTech
• Mobile Payment Strategy for retail bank in Belgium
• Digital Transformation for retail bank in Germany

Incentives

Personal Freedom: being a young company, you will have much freedom to shape the role and will be involved in a large variety of activities depending on your interests and experience.

They have the ambition to help further develop yourself for long-term success.

Impact: small firm, tailor your own path and have real impact.

FinTech offer lots of potential for growth, paired with digital and technological innovation, closely tied with forefront innovations.

Become an expert in FinTech and digital banking; being involved in key projects and work with  leading clients internationally.

Contributing to the growth; you will have a central role in the business development activities

and share responsibility for new sales.

Financial Benefits

Earn a competitive salary, based on your experience, in line with industry peers with the flexibility to shape your working hours and locations.

Bonus: based on both performance and sales achievement.

Responsibilities

• Work on various innovative and exciting projects
• Responsible for Independent Client Delivery, lead one of the project teams and be responsible for successful delivery throughout. Manage the Junior Consultants
• Help to understand the market and identify commercial opportunities; develop digital banking propositions; transform existing organizations and establish neobanks
• Bring in-depth knowledge of banking and FinTech to the client, with support of the Director and Senior Topics Experts
• Play an important role in the growth of the company and become owner of internal initiatives
• Have a central role in the business development activities and be responsible for new sales (this may include speaking at conferences and other events, build and maintain your own network of potential clients, and lead the sales process)

Skill set required

• Solid judgement skills and a "can-do" mentality to take active involvement in all the activities of the firm
• All-round consulting profile (Project Management, Presentation & Story Telling)
• Strong analytical skills (incl. structured thinking) and an eye for detail, give much attention to the quality of work, take ownership of your work and drive to help clients achieve the best possible results
• Passionate about digital financial services and FinTech, eager to become an expert in digital banking (payment, lending, money transfer, retail banking, etc.)
• 6-10 years of relevant work experience in strategy consulting, banking and finance background preferred
• Independent & social; able to take ownership in a small firm
• Ambitious, be inquisitive, digital banking is what you can learn
• Able and willing to express yourself, in turn be humble
• Internationally oriented
• Able to deliver and produce output
• Self-driven, make something out of a meeting without having to fall back on a Partner
• Strong communication skills (team player, client focused, sales): messages need to be powerful in the current digital world
• Fluent in English, additional languages preferred

In case you prefer to have a discrete call, please feel free to reach out to Boudewijn Vellinga via +31(0)20 2247 600 or b.vellinga@greifenberg.nl 

The Greifenberg Team