Digital & Strategy Consultant - Digital Payments

PayTech Group; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 167,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

PayTech Group is seeking an experienced Digital amp Strategy Consultant to support its Digital amp Strategy team on a focused 3-month engagement in Riyadh. You will contribute to digital transformation, business strategy initiatives, and customer journey optimization across digital channels and experience design.

The role requires 5–8 years in consulting, strong financial-services knowledge, and the ability to develop analytical outputs and executive materials.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional experience, including experience with a Big 4 or Tier 2 consulting firm.
• Proven delivery experience across digital transformation and business strategy engagements.
• Strong understanding of customer journeys, digital channels, and experience design.
• Prior experience in financial services is essential.
• Exposure to SME banking, retail banking or digital banking is strongly preferred.
• Experience developing analytical outputs, strategic recommendations, and senior-management presentations.
• Strong problem-solving and structured-thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex business questions.
• Advanced working capability in Microsoft Excel for analysis, modelling, and data-driven decision support.
• Strong presentation-development skills, with the ability to produce concise and visually clear executive materials.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• High attention to detail, quality, and consistency.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities and deliver in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Collaborative mindset with strong ownership and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Deliver digital transformation and business strategy engagements.
• Conduct structured analysis of business challenges, customer needs, market dynamics, and strategic opportunities.
• Assess and redesign customer journeys across products, services and digital channels.
• Contribute to experience-design initiatives by identifying pain points and opportunities.
• Develop clear strategic recommendations supported by quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Build robust Excel models, analyses and trackers to support decisions.
• Create executive-ready presentations communicating findings and recommendations.
• Collaborate with business, product, digital operations and stakeholders to validate recommendations.
• Support workshops, meetings, and documentation of outcomes.
• Manage workstreams and deliver high-quality outputs within engagement timeline.
• Bring financial-services perspectives and consulting approaches to the project.

Skills

Structured thinking

Problem solving

Excel modelling

Executive presentations

Financial services knowledge

Customer journeys

Digital channels

Stakeholder collaboration

English communication

Banking/FinTech knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Business

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Excel

Job description

Job Title

Digital amp Strategy Consultant - Digital Payments

Employment type

Contract On-site

Contract length

3 months

Location

Riyadh KSA

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

We are seeking an experienced Digital amp Strategy Consultants to support its Digital amp Strategy team on a focused 3-month engagement The consultants will contribute to digital transformation and business strategy initiatives bringing structured problem-solving strong financial-services knowledge and practical experience across customer journeys digital channels and experience design

Core Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Support the Digital amp Strategy team in delivering digital transformation and business strategy engagements
• Conduct structured analysis of business challenges customer needs market dynamics and strategic opportunities
• Assess and redesign customer journeys across relevant products services and digital channels
• Contribute to experience-design initiatives by identifying customer pain points improvement opportunities and target-state experiences
• Develop clear strategic recommendations supported by quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Build robust Excel models analyses and trackers to support decision-making and project delivery
• Create executive-ready presentations that communicate findings options recommendations and implementation priorities
• Work closely with business product digital operations and other relevant stakeholders to gather input and validate recommendations
• Support workshops working sessions and stakeholder discussions including preparation of materials and documentation of outcomes
• Manage assigned workstreams track actions and deliver high-quality outputs within the engagement timeline
• Bring relevant financial-services perspectives benchmarks and practical consulting approaches to the project

Knowledge and Experience

5-8 years of professional experience, including experience with a Big 4 or Tier 2 consulting firm.Proven delivery experience across digital transformation and business strategy engagements.Strong understanding of customer journeys, digital channels, and experience design.Prior experience in financial services is essential.Exposure to SME banking, retail banking or digital banking is strongly preferred.Experience developing analytical outputs, strategic recommendations, and senior-management presentations.Strong problem-solving and structured-thinking skills, with the ability to break down complex business questions.Advanced working capability in Microsoft Excel for analysis, modelling, and data-driven decision support.Strong presentation-development skills, with the ability to produce concise and visually clear executive materials.Ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.High attention to detail, quality, and consistency.Ability to work independently, manage priorities and deliver in a fast-paced consulting environment.Collaborative mindset with strong ownership and follow-through.

Mandatory Skills

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (Master's preferred).Previous experience within Banking, Digital Payment & Card solutions, or the FinTech industry.Regional experience, including working in a faced-paced matrix organisation.Excellent communication skills in English (written, verbal, and presentation); Arabic preferred.

Preferred Skills

The ability to analyse data, troubleshoot payment issues, optimize processes, and make data-driven decisions.Good understanding of payment systems, digital platforms, system workflows, security basics, and industry technologies.An understanding of regional regulations across financial services or payment networks.