Financial Services Consultant

THE ROLE

We are looking to for a consultant to join Flint’s expanding European financial services team. At a time of significant political and policy change, successful candidates will have a unique opportunity to support the continuing development of Flint’s business in this area and work on an exciting array of complex policy and regulatory issues for our clients.  This will involve working closely with senior team members across Flint to advise clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy with a specific focus on EU financial services. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive in an evolving policy environment. Our clients include asset managers and private equity, banks, insurers, pension funds, fintechs, technology companies, blockchain infrastructure and other financial institutions as well as alternatives, portfolio companies and corporates. 

The financial services team works across Flint’s Brussels and our offices in London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Hong-Kong/Singapore. In this Brussels-based role, you will focus both on our growing portfolio of EU clients and will have opportunities to work with our UK and international colleagues.

As part of the Flint team, you will research and analyse complex policy challenges, to enable your clients to deliver the best possible outcomes. Working closely with senior leaders and experts from across the company, you will help to develop strategies and approaches to address these challenges, backing up recommendations with wider strategic and political analysis. 

Flint provides an excellent professional and educational environment for people to accelerate their personal and career development. There will be space to engage in discussion and debates on substantive policy and political challenges, as well as significant scope for rapid progression through the company for high-performers.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR - SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We are particularly interested in candidates with experience working for, or closely with, EU institutions or financial services authorities at either Member State or EU level, as well as those with in-house experience with financial institutions. As a general guideline, our consultants typically have 2–5 years of relevant professional experience.

While this role will focus on financial services issues, there will be an expectation that the successful candidate will be willing to work across other policy areas. Candidates should feel free to outline any experience in other policy areas in their application, but this is not a requirement.  

In all cases, you will have:

• A strong understanding of the current EU financial services policy landscape and how policy decisions are taken.


• An interest in EU public policy and/or politics.


• Excellent analytical, research and problem-solving skills - the ability to quickly dive into new topics and draw out the implications of complex evidence and analysis to give clear strategy and policy advice.


• Outstanding written communication skills, with proven ability to draft clear documents for internal and external audiences with varying degrees of expert knowledge.


• Outstanding oral communication skills, including the ability to distil varied information and communicate complex issues to non-specialists.


• Good organisational skills including the capacity to prioritise, plan and schedule complex tasks proactively, and to comfortably work under pressure and to tight deadlines.


• The ability to provide effective support to colleagues in building relationships, e.g. through insightful research and briefings, delivering proposals/pitches, providing initial drafts and research as required.
  
  

In addition, you will be:

• Personable, confident and professional with good judgement and ability to communicate effectively.


• Pro-active and responsive to changing needs and demands of our clients, while remaining calm under pressure and self-motivated.


• Able to work collaboratively in teams and would be the kind of colleague who will add to the strong community we are building at Flint.


• Able to reach informed judgement and opinions, such that our clients will benefit materially from access to your experience and insight.


• Able to demonstrate commercial acumen, enjoy achieving outcomes for our clients, and can successfully contribute to a fast-paced business.
  
  

TO APPLY

To be successful, please submit your CV along with a short covering letter (max 600 words) by 10 July, setting out:

• Why you would like to join Flint.


• How your experience and skills qualify you for the advertised role.


• Your possible start date.

We will review applications as they arrive and may invite candidates to interview before the closing date.

ABOUT FLINT

Flint is a leading global strategy consultancy. We are advisers to some of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and investors in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. We work at the point where government and business meet, drawing on our blend of international expertise and experience to offer an authoritative perspective on both.

We work with organisations affected by political, policy, or regulatory change. Our clients are senior executives looking to improve the trajectory of their business, or to achieve commercial outcomes through policy or regulatory change. Flint helps them to drive their businesses forward.

We have offices in London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hong Kong & Singapore, as well as presence in several European capitals. We offer successful candidates the opportunity to advance within the company.

Flint takes care of its people. We enjoy challenging each other’s thinking and working hard on a wide variety of interesting and stimulating projects, while simultaneously respecting life outside Flint.