A leading strategy advisory practice with a dedicated financial services and fintech unit is searching independent experts with background from Top Tier consulting firm to support its growing deal advisory workload for private equity and corporate clients across Europe and selected US engagements.

Key facts

• Start: ASAP / ongoing intake (rolling staffing)
• Duration: 3–8 weeks per assignment (varies by project), framework relationship for repeat staffing
• Remote/On-Site: Remote (occasional team co-location in London, Paris or Munich possible)
• Workload: 100%, project-based
• Language: English

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Support commercial due diligence (CDD) for private equity buy-side and sell-side mandates
• Assess target companies' market position, competitive dynamics and growth potential within financial services and fintech sub-sectors
• Conduct expert interviews and primary research with market participants, buyers and industry stakeholders
• Build and validate market-sizing, benchmarking and commercial models
• Translate complex financial services mechanics into clear, deal-relevant conclusions for investment committees
• Contribute directly to due diligence reports and management presentations under tight deal timelines
• Act as a subject-matter sparring partner for junior project team members on FS-specific questions
• Work flexibly across a rotating pipeline of deal engagements, often on short notice

YOUR SKILLS

• Must-have: 7+ years of combined commercial/vendor due diligence and strategy consulting experience, with CDD as the dominant share of project experience
• Must-have: Deep, practitioner-level knowledge in at least two (2+) of the following financial services domains: payments, banking & lending, asset/wealth management, insurance, capital markets, FS regtech, FS data & data automation, FS services
• Must-have: Comfortable operating at deal cadence (project cycles of 3–12 weeks) rather than long-form corporate strategy timelines
• Must-have: Background from a top-tier strategy consultancy or comparable (e.g. MBB, Oliver Wyman); Big Four background considered case by case
• Prior exposure to fintech business models and technology-enabled financial services, without requiring deep technical/IT expertise
• Experience presenting findings directly to private equity investment professionals
• Additional language skills (German, French) for select engagements

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