Senior Consultant Financial Services - Customer

We live in a fast changing world, full of challenges and opportunities. In order to succeed as a business, it's crucial to react swiftly to these changes.

Join the BDO family, a worldwide consulting firm where you can bring your own personality into your job! We help organisations grow sustainably with our expertise in audit & assurance, tax & legal, advisory and accountancy.

At BDO, you are not just a number. Your well-being and development are just as important to us as the personal, hands-on advice and pragmatic solutions we offer our clients. Because if you grow, so do we and so do our clients. That is why our slogan is 'Let's Grow Together'!

As part of BDO’s advisory department, the Strategy & Transformation's Team pursues the mission of helping our clients in various sectors to work more (cost-)efficient, customer-focused, people-centric and results-driven. We guide and support our clients to succeed in their journey from strategy definition to implementation and to seek for continuous improvement through multidisciplinary skills, adapted approaches and professional tools.

As Senior Consultant FS – Customer, you will be part of a team with a specific focus on the commercial part of Financial Services sector including banks, insurance companies, payment institutions, etc. and support our clients with their transformation projects. This may involve different objectives: increasing revenues, reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction, digital transformation or complying with regulation.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Assess customer needs and define value propositions & go to market strategies;
• Create & improve customer journeys across various domains like daily banking, lending, investments, life- and non-life insurance, etc.;
• Participate in defining strategic plan & optimising organizational structure;
• Advise and support senior management through business analysis & concise well-structured presentations;
• Manage assignment (kick-off, planning, delivery and monitoring);
• Make recommendations based on your knowledge and experience in various domains and leverage on BDO’s expertise & network;
• Build your own network and develop commercial opportunities within your expertise together with your service offering lead;
• Coach junior profiles on the job and lead by example;
• Assist the manager and above with service offering and writing proposals;
• … and many more exciting things!

Our philosophy for achieving this can be translated as follows: We believe that an Integrated approach with our client, supported by a Tailor-made intervention where we blend with our client's team and ensure that we always focus on pragmatism, will provide an optimal client journey.

This job is definitely for you if you ...

• have 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in financial sector;
• have a master's degree in Business Engineering, Economics, Management or a similar domain;
• have Dutch or French as native language and very good language of the other and be fluent in English;
• enjoy working in change working environment and have project experience;
• do not like the status quo and are eager to learn. You are always looking for new challenges;
• show distinctive analytical & problem-solving skills;
• demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities;
• can work under pressure and take responsibility to deliver high quality;
• likes to take initiative and present new ideas, but is also open to your colleagues’ point of view;
• have the ambition to have a real impact on the organisations you work with ;
• want to be more than a number in an impersonal organization. At BDO, you get the opportunity to develop your potential and to shape your career in the way you want;
• have the motto "Practice makes perfect".

• Culture: you will join a family of experts who encourage respect, diversity and teamwork. You work in an open culture, so feel free to talk to anyone, at any level
• Development: you set the direction of your career, and we support you where necessary. Our BDO Academy provides a whole range of training courses to help you. 
• Impact: from day 1 you will be given responsibility, with support from your team.
• Network: you can work on different projects and clients, across business practices.
• Flexibility: you choose where you work with flexible working hours.
• Wellbeing: your physical and mental health is important to us.
• Salary: you receive a competitive salary package with interesting benefits.
• Sustainability: you work within a company with an integrated sustainability policy.

Did you nod enthusiastically when you read through the job description? Then send us your CV right away! May we soon welcome you as a new colleague!