Senior Consultant Strategy & Transformation – Financial Institutions

BDO Belgium co; Zaventem; Hybrid; EUR 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture

Development

Impact

Growth

Network

Flexibility

Wellbeing

Proximity

Salary

Sustainability

Job summary

BDO Belgium is seeking a Senior Consultant in Strategy & Transformation for Financial Institutions. You will help financial institutions transform operations, banking, and insurance processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver practical solutions.

The role requires a master’s degree, 2–5 years of consulting experience, and native-level Dutch and French with solid business English.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Economics, Management, or similar field.
• 2–5 years of experience as a consultant and/or in financial sector.
• Native-level Dutch and French, strong business English.

Responsibilities

• Support financial institutions on transformation journeys across Operations, Customer & Commercial Services, and Finance Transformation.
• Analyze business processes, identify improvements, and propose alignment with clients' strategic goals.
• Facilitate workshops with SMEs to gather requirements and define key assumptions.

Skills

Dutch (native)

French (native)

English (business)

Consulting experience

Banking/Insurance knowledge

Education

Master's degree in Economics/Management

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Job description

Are you passionate about driving transformation in the financial sector? Join us at BDO as a Senior Consultant Strategy & Transformation – Financial Institutions. Collaborate with clients to analyze business processes, identify areas for improvement, and propose solutions aligned with their strategic goals. Be part of a warm, personal, and pragmatic team that thrives on making a real impact in the industry.

What will you be doing?

In this role, you'll play a vital role in supporting financial institutions on their transformation journey. Here's what you'll be doing:

• Supporting transformation: Assist financial institutions in adapting to the changing environment by focusing on areas such as Operations in Banking & Insurance, Customer & Commercial Services, and Finance Transformation.
• Analyzing business processes: Conduct in-depth analysis of business processes, spot areas for improvements, and propose solutions aligned with client's strategic goals.
• Facilitating workshops: Collaborate with subject matter experts to facilitate workshops, gather business and functional requirements, and define key assumptions and dependencies.
• Coordinating activities: Take the initiative to coordinate and support activities across multiple teams, working closely with project/program managers to push solutions forward.
• Context-driven initiatives: Operate within the context of client needs and your area of expertise, including Daily Banking, Lending, Invest, and Life or Non-Life Insurance.

What do you bring to the table?

This job is for you if you:

• Educational background: Hold a master's degree in Economics, Management, or a similar domain.
• Experience: Have between 2 and 5 years of experience as a consultant and/or in the financial sector, with knowledge of banking and/or insurance products and processes considered an asset.
• Language proficiency: Possess native-level proficiency in Dutch and French, with profound knowledge of business English.
• Eager to learn: Are eager to learn, move things forward, and tackle new challenges.
• Ambition: Have the ambition to have a real impact on the organizations you work with.
• Stakeholder interaction: Can identify relevant stakeholders and interact with them accordingly.
• Autonomy and teamwork: Work autonomously while being a strong team player.
• People-focused: Have an eye for people and understand the complexity and goals of organizations.
• Motivated: Embrace the motto "Practice makes perfect."
• Certifications: have certifications and/or practical experience in PMI, Prince 2, Lean, Agile (SAFe, Scrum), ADKAR/Prosci and ITIL, analytics (PowerBI, Tableau...) will certainly be a bonus

What do we bring to the table?

According to our own colleagues, it’s got something to do with the great team spirit and atmosphere within our organisation and the focus on their wellbeing… But hey, just take a look for yourself at what we got to offer

• Culture: you will join a team of experts who encourage respect, diversity and teamwork
• Development: you decide the direction of your career, and we support you where necessary.
• Impact: from day 1 you will be given responsibility, with support from your team.
• Growth: you get access to a whole range of training courses through our BDO Academy.
• Network: you can work on different projects and clients, across business practices.
• Flexibility: you choose where you work with flexible working hours.
• Wellbeing: your physical and mental health is important to us.
• Proximity: you work in an open culture, so feel free to speak to anyone, at any level.
• Salary: you receive a competitive salary package with interesting benefits.
• Sustainability: you work within a company with an integrated sustainability policy.