Business Consultant - Financial Services (m/f/d)

In this role you bridge business and technology to deliver regulatory-aligned process improvements and AI-enabled transformations in financial services. You will work with client teams to capture requirements, design processes and drive delivery across banking, payments and capital markets. You will assess regulatory impacts and explore AI solutions to create measurable client value, while guiding adoption and change management. This position combines stakeholder collaboration with hands-on analysis to shape compliant, future-focused financial services solutions.

• Gather, analyze and document business requirements across financial services domains
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define processes, prioritize scope and validate needs
• Conduct workshops and interviews to confirm requirements and outcomes
• Translate business needs into functional specifications for implementation teams
• Maintain requirement traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Support solution design, testing and change management planning
• Advise clients on regulatory compliance areas (MiFID II, PSD2/3, DORA, AML/KYC)
• Identify and recommend AI-driven opportunities for process improvements and regulatory reporting automation

• 4–8 years of experience in business consulting or analysis in financial services or consulting
• Solid understanding of banking, payments or capital markets processes and European regulatory frameworks (MiFID II, Basel IV, PSD2/3, DORA, AML)
• Proven requirement elicitation, documentation and stakeholder engagement
• Familiarity with generative AI concepts and identifying use cases in regulated environments
• Awareness of cloud and AI enabling technologies with knowledge of agile delivery
• Strong communication, presentation and client interaction skills
• Fluency in English and German
• Hands-on experience with core banking platforms (Temenos Transact, Finastra Fusion)
• Exposure to AI-enabled or data-driven transformation programs in regulated financial services environments
• Industry certifications such as CBAP, IIBA, PMP or financial certifications (CFA, FRM, CAMS)

• strong communication
• stakeholder engagement
• facilitation of workshops
• requirement elicitation and documentation
• knowledge of MiFID II, Basel IV, PSD2/3, DORA, AML/KYC
• generative AI concepts (LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation)