Agile Strategy & Transformation Consultant – Financial Services
Location: London (Hybrid)
Level: Principal Consultant
* Salary: Principal Consultant: up to £97,000 + £5,900 travel allowance
* Bonus (up to 15%) plus pension and full benefits package
Overview
A leading global management consultancy is expanding its Agile Strategy & Transformation capability within Financial Services. This team is recognised as a thought leader in organisational agility, helping major banking, insurance, payments, wealth and pensions organisations fundamentally re-design how they operate, deliver value, and respond to change.
This is an advisory-led transformation role, not delivery-focused. The team is specifically looking for candidates with experience shaping enterprise-wide agile strategy, operating models, and ways of working, rather than hands-on Agile Coaches or delivery-only Project Managers.
You will work with senior executives to design and embed sustainable, value-driven change across complex, regulated organisations.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead and contribute to agile strategy and transformation programmes across Financial Services clients
* Design and embed enterprise agile operating models aligned to commercial and regulatory objectives
* Advise executives and senior leaders on adopting and sustaining agile ways of working at scale
* Connect organisational strategy to portfolios, products and teams to deliver measurable outcomes
* Support the transition from projects to products, including funding models, governance and prioritisation
* Work in blended client/consulting teams, enabling change with clients rather than to clients
* Contribute to a vibrant agile community alongside experts in strategy, digital, operational excellence, people and change
Required Experience
* Strong Financial Services domain knowledge (banking, insurance, asset management, payments or pensions)
* Proven experience in agile transformation at scale, ideally within a consulting or advisory environment
* Experience designing business and operating models that work end-to-end across organisations
* Executive-level stakeholder management and communication skills
* Experience enabling organisational change through skills, behaviours and leadership alignment
* Exposure to shared services, operations and engineering interlock within large enterprises
Desirable Experience
* SAFe (including SPCT), LeSS or Scrum@Scale
* Certified Kanban (or equivalent)
* Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)
* Product lifecycle management and product operating models
* Experience supporting regulatory change (e.g. Consumer Duty)
* Experience leading or running consulting assignments
Location & Working Pattern
* London-based
* Hybrid working, typically 2–3 days per week in the office or on client site
* Client travel required depending on assignment