Practice Area Profile

BCG's Financial Institutions Practice Area (FIPA) aims to be the consultant of choice for leaders in the financial industry. We seek to achieve that goal by helping clients find their way amid the ever-evolving, ever-shifting competitive landscape. By focusing on the fundamental economics of their businesses and the underlying needs of their customers, we help banks, brokerages, asset managers and other financial- services organizations rethink their strategic assumptions, identify winning business propositions, and seize new opportunities in the expanding digital environment.

What You'll Do

Payments revenue globally is poised to expand by 5.9% annually through 2028, maintaining a growth streak that started after the 2008 recession and adding about $1.0 trillion to the payments revenue pool-raising the total to roughly $2.5 trillion. But attaining growth above GDP levels will be difficult for established players. To gain or maintain leading market positions, they must accelerate digitization, gain scale, and realize the potential of developing markets.

As an Expert Project Leader, you will play a key role in the development of our Payments topic as well as support our growth targets across Southeast Asia. Additionally, you will be expected to:

Advise clients on executive level across countries and industries supporting them to improve or transform their businesses and achieve excellence in what they do, as we work to deliver lasting impact in a highly dynamic environment.
Lead BCG project teams enabling them to find the right approach, motivate them to deliver on time and to achieve long-term impact for our clients. You will also drive the majority of the project related client interactions ensuring a constructive collaboration with our clients.
Build and spread payments expertise within BCG and serving as a Payments expert for the firm to develop new techniques and/or capture new ideas as well as casework experience
Ability to contribute to BCG's practice area publications and to BCG's approach and toolkits, benchmarks, templates, processes as well as position papers, studies and insights from case experience
Work jointly with BCG and client project teams, bringing expertise to the team and to the client on site
Execute, or provide expertise and support Payments projects for our key clients in Southeast Asia and beyond
Be part of our business development efforts: client meetings, industry conferences etc.
Provide mentorship and support to consultants ensuring continuous development

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

We're looking for exceptional talent from consulting or industry to join us. You would typically have:

Broad, hands-on experience in Payments and Transaction Banking with a track record of project/team leadership and related achievements
Minimum 5 years of work experience in the Payments field with a particular focus on e-wallet, digital payments, payment digitization and growth areas
Able to question the "status quo", creating transparency for clients, helping them understand the changing landscape of Transaction Banking, synthesising & advising how to improve
Willingness to travel internationally and to work remotely on client sites
Previous consulting experience is desired but not essential
Flexible, curious, creative, open for new things and able to propose innovative ideas