Fellowship Consulting - Financial Services / Data & AI (3-6 months)

We are looking for Fellows for 3 to 6 months.

Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling,

headquartered

in Munich.

The work is hard. The bar is high. Convince during your Fellowship and earn the opportunity to join ALAIKA full-time after graduation,

with partner-track ambition from day one.

Stop reading if any of these describe you:

Drive.

You

need someone

to

fire the starting gun

→

We only hire people who can prove they

are intrinsically

driven

and execute.

Ownership.

You spot the problem and walk it to your boss

→

We fall in love with problems.

Own

them.

Solve

them. Ship

solutions.

Speed.

Slow is your default

→

Speed compounds. Be smart and brave enough to select 80/20 in the right way.

Mindset.

"Not possible"

is part of your vocabulary

→

We hire people who always find a way.

Still there? Then ALAIKA might be for you.

At ALAIKA, our vision is to build the future of Financial Services with

three brands under one roof — Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we are

in the midst of

building our trojan horse ALAIKA Advisory.

The ambition: building the leading Financial-Services-specific entrepreneurial holding — Fortune 500 access, PE discipline, Silicon Valley technology-depth and thinking.

Three networks that compound

and multiply.

One industry.

Financial Services. Nothing else.

One focus.

The intersection of business and technology — across Strategic Transformations, AI & Data Intelligence, and Cybersecurity.

One goal.

Being the go-to partner for the world's leading Fortune 500 financial services companies — and the ones we might help build into that.

Founded in October 2022 by

Johanna von Geyr

(build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and

Harald Braunstein

(serial entrepreneur with exits incl. IPO), we bring together deep functional domain expertise and networks in global Financial Services, with a proven track record in building, scaling, and investing in leading software product companies.

Curious what ALAIKA is all about? Explore

our

website

and

introduction deck .

Join the movement — apply now.

The role

and what you will work on

Advise.

Take on the most pressing strategic and technology challenges of the world’s leading financial services companies — across

Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber.

In

the

room

with

decision-makers

from

day

one.

Own.

Own your deliverables end-to-end.

You are not support staff for the seniors .

Learn.

Build the analytical, interpersonal, and business skills that define exceptional consultants.

Work alongside colleagues of all levels , receive close coaching, and learn how high-stakes advisory work is done in practice.

Build.

We are scaling, with real building left to do — IP, processes, go-to-market, strategy. You do not just deliver client work;

you co-build the firm .

That

is

not a

slogan

—

it

is

your

Tuesday.

When you are a fit

“Show me an athlete who did well academically. An athlete because they know what it takes to win and they have had to experience loss.”

— Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder of Citadel

You will work alongside intrinsically driven people chasing an uncapped career — people who do "what it takes".

You fear

"being one more number stuck in middle management".

Your goal is to make it to the top: at ALAIKA itself, at a leading investment or financial services firm,

or in a company you build yourself — ALAIKA can help with that too.

Book-smart.

Strong academic foundation. Think in structures, not gut feel.

Street-smart.

Read the room fast. Prioritise ruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality.

People-smart.

Communicate with precision — clear, direct, persuasive.

Build

trust

across

functions

and

seniority.

Athlete performance mindset.

High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes.

Entrepreneurial guts.

Self-confident achiever.

Act

first, apologise later

—

speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles.

What

you

bring

Background.

Currently studying or graduated, top 10% of your class at a top-tier university. Analytical field — CS, Math, Physics, Finance, or equivalent rigour.

Minimum

4th Bachelor semester.

Experience.

Previous

experience as a working student or intern in a high-pressure, results-driven environment — top strategy consultancy, PE/VC-backed company, fast-growing tech, or demanding corporate financial services role. Hands-on Data & AI experience, as well as financial services experience, is a plus.

Leadership.

You have led — a team, a club, a project, a cause.

We hire people who make things happen.

Analytical edge.

Data-driven by default. Leverage data to drive decisions, not just decorate slides.

Languages.

Fluent in English. German and additional languages are a plus.

Why

join

ALAIKA

Your launchpad.

Convince during your Fellowship and earn a full-time offer after graduation —

with partner-track ambition from day one.

Stellar Network.

Shoulder-to-shoulder with financial services executives running today’s giants and the founders

+ investors&nb