Consultant - Financial Services / Data & AI (m/f/d)

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.

Partner

in 6-7

years possible , for the ones who can keep up a n d

actually build

a

business themselves

on our platform.

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

and your client relationships end-to-end.

You are not support

staff

for

the

partnership.

Lead.

Run workstreams and projects independently.

Multiply the output of everyone around you

— not just your own.

Sell.

Drive business development that other strategic consultancies reserve for managers and partners. At ALAIKA, building the business is not a privilege

reserved for managers and partners.

It is an expectation.

Grow.

Become the rare profile the market is short on — analytical mastermind, financial services expert, entrepreneurial dealmaker.

Partner-track

from

day

one.

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.

Top 10–20% of your class at a top-tier university. Analytical field — CS, Math, Physics, Finance, or equivalent

rigour.

Experience.

1–2+ years 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 and / or AI experience

required. Financial services experience preferred.

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 and German.

Additional

languages are a plus.

Why

join

ALAIKA

Partner track from day one.

Six years from early careers to partner possible.

Compensation

.

Above mark