Senior Banking Strategy & Payments Transformation Leader

4100 Accenture Oy Company; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking experienced Banking Strategy professionals to join our Financial Services team in Finland. You will work with leading banks and financial institutions to address their most important business challenges and growth opportunities.

You will lead strategic advisory engagements across banking domains, including payments, digital channels, and regulatory transformations, while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and senior management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, technology or another relevant discipline.
• Typically 8–15+ years of experience within banking, strategy consulting, management consulting or transformation leadership roles.
• Strong experience in one or more banking domains.
• Proven experience advising senior business stakeholders and influencing strategic decision-making.
• Experience leading large‑scale transformation programs, operating model redesign initiatives or business‑critical change programs.
• Strong understanding of both business and technology aspects of banking transformation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Finnish and English.
• Resident in Finland.

Responsibilities

• Advise banking executives on business, technology and transformation strategy.
• Lead strategic assessments such as target operating model design, business case development and transformation roadmap creation.
• Help clients navigate industry shifts related to payments modernization, digital banking, AI, data, regulation and platform transformation.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders including executive management and business leadership teams.
• Shape and lead transformation initiatives with multidisciplinary consulting teams and manage complex stakeholder environments across business and technology functions.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives, delivery plans and measurable outcomes.
• Contribute to sales, proposal work, commercial origination and offering development activities.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic advisory

Transformation leadership

Bilingual Finnish/English

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, technology or another relevant discipline

Job description

Accenture is seeking experienced Banking Strategy professionals to join our Financial Services team in Finland. You will work with leading banks and financial institutions to address their most important business challenges and growth opportunities.

You will lead strategic advisory engagements across banking domains, including payments, digital channels, and regulatory transformations, while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and senior management.