Management Consultant - Financial Services

About the Position

Cidestra is seeking a dynamic Management Consultant within Financial Services to join our team. In this role, you will assist our clients within Banking, Insurance, and Fintech to reshape their strategies and redesign and transform their business, services, and operations-all while ensuring regulatory compliance and sustainability.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive, results- and development-driven professional who thrives in a fast-paced, client-focused, dynamic, and learning environment. You will play a crucial role in shaping and implementing solutions for client challenges, particularly in our focus areas such as payments, open finance, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and challenges
• Design and implement strategic solutions, new services, and operational improvements
• Build strong client relationships and ensure exceptional service delivery
• Communicate solutions & change needs and manage key stakeholders
• Lead change initiatives and coordinate with cross-functional departments

Requirements

• 3-8 years of experience in change initiatives within Financial Services-in management consulting, project management, agile product/epic owner, or similar roles
• Experience in business design and transformation
• Subject-matter knowledge and experience from the financial services industry, especially in the areas of payments, open finance, or financial crime prevention
• Proven background in business analysis, project management, and/or management of agile development coupled with good analytical skills and a problem-solving mindset
• Passion for innovation and disruption
• Good communication skills-fluency in Swedish and English

We Offer

• To be part of an ambitious, forward-thinking company with a flat hierarchical structure giving you direct access to the partners and senior colleagues
• To work in an environment based upon trust, where we don’t compete internally and where everyone is seen as a valued member of the team. We believe that coaching, collaboration, and learning while having fun and feeling psychological safety is the foundation for a high-performing team!
• To be engaged on some of the most interesting and complex projects in the Financial Services sector, especially in the areas of payments, open finance, financial crime prevention, and sustainability
• Personal development and career progression based upon your own individual merit, which is not ruled by a hierarchical culture or process
• Cidestra offers a competitive compensation model creating great opportunity for successful candidates
• To be part of an alliance of twelve companies, that employ 260 consultants giving you the opportunity of being involved in a larger ecosystem of cultures and opportunities. This group is called Newground Alliance

About the Company

Cidestra is a management consulting firm focusing on strategy and transformation within the Financial Services industry. We have advised the leading financial institutions in the Nordics and in Europe in a wide range of initiatives, ranging from Strategy to Design and Implementation. Our company is part of the Newground Alliance-an alliance of independent niche consulting firms with various areas of expertise. The group has in total over 250 employees with office at Norrmalmstorg 14 in Stockholm.