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

ALAIKA Advisory; München; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Partner-track from day one

Offices in Munich & Barcelona

Zusammenfassung

ALAIKA Advisory in Munich is seeking highly motivated candidates for a role that spans strategy consulting, data & AI, and cybersecurity. You will advise leading financial services firms, own deliverables end-to-end, and drive new business from day one.

The path is ambitious: partner-track from day one, above-market compensation, and the opportunity to co-build the firm across two European offices, with a culture that prizes speed, ownership, and results.

Qualifikationen

• Top 10–20% of your class at a top-tier university.
• 6–12 months in a high-pressure, results-driven environment.
• Leadership experience with a team or project.
• Fluent in English and German.
• Analytical, data-driven decision maker.

Aufgaben

• Advise the world’s leading financial services companies across Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber.
• Own your deliverables end-to-end with real ownership.
• Lead workstreams and projects from day one with substantial responsibility.
• Drive business development from day one, not by waiting for seniority.
• Grow into a rare analytical and entrepreneurial profile.
• Co-build the firm with IP, processes, and go-to-market strategies.

Kenntnisse

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Entrepreneurial mindset

Languages: English & German

Ausbildung

Top-tier university degree

Tools

Data & AI experience

Jobbeschreibung

Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA —a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling, headquarteredinMunich.The workis hard. The bar is high. Partnerin 7-9 years possible, for the ones who can keep up andactually buildabusiness themselveson 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.Ownthem.Solvethem. Shipsolutions.

• 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 withthree brands under one roof — Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we arein the midst ofbuilding 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 byJohanna von Geyr(build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) andHarald 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 ourwebsiteandintroduction deck.

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. Youarenot support staff for the partnership.

• Lead. Run workstreams and projects from day one — with real responsibility, not just preparation for it. Multiply the output of everyone around you — not just your own.

• Sell. Drive business development from day one — no waiting for seniority, no permission needed. At ALAIKA, building the business is not a privilege reserved for managers and partners.Itisanexpectation.

• Grow. Become the rare profile the market is short on — analytical mastermind, financial services expert, entrepreneurial dealmaker. Partner-trackfromdayone.

• 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.Thatisnot aslogan—itisyourTuesday.

When you are a fit

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. Thinkinstructures, not gut feel.

• Street-smart. Read the room fast.Prioritiseruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality.

• People-smart. Communicate with precision — clear, direct, persuasive.Buildtrustacrossfunctionsandseniority.

• Athlete performance mindset. High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes.

• Entrepreneurial guts. Self-confident achiever.Actfirst,apologiselater— speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles.

Whatyoubring

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

• Experience. 6-12 months 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 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. Fluently in English and German.Additionallanguages are a plus.

WhyjoinALAIKA

• Partner track from day one. Seven years from early careers to partner possible.

• Compensation. Above market with very entrepreneurial-driven bonus structures.

• Stellar Network. Shoulder-to-shoulder with financial services executives running today’s giants and the founders+ investorsbuildingtomorrow’s.

• Offices. Munich and Barcelona. More coming.

Plus: the essentials done right — EGYMWellpass, bike leasing, a kitchen stocked with healthy food and team events worth showing up for: Oktoberfest, team dinners, and more.

Advise the leaders. Build what comes next.
Invest in the future of Financial Services.

Equal Opportunities for all

ALAIKA is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on merit and welcome applications from people of all genders, backgrounds, ages, and identities.Our team spirit celebrates diversity. We want you to be your true “you” and offer everyone an open culture and safe space