AI & Data Consultant - Professional Services Platform

New Street Consulting Group (NSCG); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

New Street Consulting Group (NSCG) is seeking an Interim AI & Data Consultant to lead its AI, automation and data agenda across the UK portfolio. London, hybrid, 6–8 months, start mid-September.

You will work with firm leadership to scope and land hands-on AI deployments, structure data for value, and drive adoption across the group while clearly communicating commercial impact to partners. Ideal candidates bring a consulting background (Big 4 or mid-tier) and hands-on delivery experience in

Qualifications

• Consulting background - Big 4, mid-tier or specialist AI & data practice.
• Hands-on delivery of AI, automation or data initiatives that reached live use.
• Experience inside professional services: accountancy, legal or similar partnership environments.
• Accounting or commercial grounding, or consulting with genuine commercial instinct.
• Comfort being the most client-facing person in a technical conversation.

Responsibilities

• Identify where AI and automation genuinely improve margin on high-volume compliance work.
• Get firms' data into a structure where AI is worth deploying at all.
• Scope initiatives with the technical team, then land them with the firms and drive adoption.
• Spotting what one firm already does well, standardising it, and taking it across the group.
• Making the commercial case to partners in terms they care about.

Skills

Hands-on AI delivery

Automation delivery

Data initiatives delivery

Consulting background

Client-facing

Job description

Interim AI & Data Consultant - Professional Services Platform

London (hybrid) | 6–8 months | Start mid-September

A private-equity-backed group building a platform of accountancy practices across the UK and Europe needs a consultant to lead its AI, automation and data agenda across the portfolio.

This is a client-facing role. You'd sit in a six-person central team, working directly with the UK CEO, as the bridge between a technical centre of excellence and the managing partners of independently run SME firms.

What you'd be doing

• Working with firm leadership to identify where AI and automation genuinely improve margin on high-volume compliance work
• Getting firms' data into a structure where AI is worth deploying at all
• Scoping initiatives with the technical team, then landing them with the firms and driving adoption
• Spotting what one firm already does well, standardising it, and taking it across the group
• Making the commercial case to partners in terms they care about

Alongside that, pricing and cross-referral work across the portfolio.

The distinction that matters:

We're looking for someone who has delivered AI and automation, not directed it. Not the person who owned the vendor relationship or presented the roadmap - the person who was in the detail when it went live and stayed until people were actually using it.

Equally, this is not purely a technical role. You'd be in front of partners most weeks. You need enough depth to be credible with a build team and enough polish to sit with a managing partner and explain what a change is worth to their business.

You'll likely bring:

• A consulting background - Big 4, mid-tier or a specialist AI and data practice
• Hands‑on delivery of AI, automation or data initiatives that reached live use and adoption
• Experience inside professional services: accountancy, legal or similar partnership environments
• An accounting or commercial grounding, or consulting with genuine commercial instinct
• Comfort being the most client‑facing person in a technical conversation, and the most technical person in a client one

Probably not a fit if

your AI experience is strategy, roadmaps or vendor selection; you've overseen deployments rather than delivered them; or your background is enterprise IT rather than professional services.