Senior Strategy Manager, Banking & Payments Transformation

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

Be yourself, make a difference. Are you ready to shape the future of banking in the Nordics? This is an opportunity to build a rewarding career at Accenture, working at the intersection of banking strategy, business transformation and technology. We are looking for experienced Banking Strategy professionals to join our growing Financial Services team in Finland. In this role, you will work with leading banks and financial institutions to address their most important business challenges and growth opportunities. You will help clients define and execute strategies that drive growth, improve customer experience, modernize operations and unlock the value of emerging technologies such as AI, data and digital platforms. You will lead strategic advisory engagements and transformation programs across different banking domains. This may include deeper focus areas such as payments and transaction banking, cash management and liquidity services, core banking modernization, retail and corporate banking operating models, digital channels and customer journeys, or regulatory and risk-driven transformation. You will also gain access to Accenture’s global Banking & Capital Markets network, world-class thought leadership, industry-leading assets and a broad community of banking, payments and technology professionals across the Nordics and globally.

Qualifications

We are looking for experienced professionals with a strong background in banking, consulting and large-scale transformation programs. You should ideally bring deep expertise in at least one banking domain together with the ability to advise senior stakeholders and lead strategic initiatives from vision through execution.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

What’s in it for you

Opportunity to work with leading Nordic and international financial institutions on their most strategic transformation agendas.

A role combining industry expertise, strategy, technology and business transformation.

Direct exposure to executive‑level client conversations and critical banking initiatives.

Access to Accenture’s global Banking & Capital Markets network, thought leadership, methodologies and assets.

International opportunities, cross‑border collaboration and access to world‑class expertise.

• Competitive rewards and benefits package according to Accenture Finland practices.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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