Consultant / Senior Consultant - Financial Services

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

We’re looking for candidates based in Sydney with strong consulting fundamental skills and a genuine interest in delivering measurable value for financial services clients. Our work supports Australia’s largest financial institutions including banks, payments providers, superannuation funds, asset managers and insurers.  You’ll partner with senior experts to help these organisations tackle their most complex challenges. We bring a management consulting approach grounded in a strong risk understanding, helping clients navigate regulatory expectations, manage uncertainty and embed robust controls while delivering strategic outcomes.

In this role, you’ll work with clients on complex challenges at the intersection of strategy, risk, operations and sustainability - helping them to interpret emerging external pressures and translate them into practical, enterprise‑wide action. You’ll apply strong consulting fundamentals, including structured problem‑solving, stakeholder management and delivery skills, in client‑facing environments.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work across a range of specialist areas, including:

• →Climate and sustainability
• →Strategy and transformation
• →Risk and regulatory control
• →Technology risk and cyber

You don’t need to have experience in all of these areas; we’re looking for individuals who bring experience in at least one, alongside the curiosity and flexibility to work across other areas.

We place strong emphasis on mindset. Successful candidates will be curious, proactive and eager to learn, taking ownership of your work and contributing to the delivery of impactful outcomes for our clients.

Your work may span the following areas, covering both client engagements and business growth:

How you will work on client engagements

• →Understand your client needs, the outcomes required and deliver high quality deliverables for every project
• →Deep industry expertise: Use your understanding of how specific financial services sectors operate (such as superannuation and banking), including their governance, business models and technology landscape to solve our clients most important problems.
• →Navigate the regulatory landscape: Understand evolving regulatory requirements and standards, and translate them into practical, actionable solutions for financial services clients.
• →Assess strategic risks and opportunities: Analyse the risks and opportunities facing institutions and support clients to respond through clear, commercially grounded strategies with practical roadmaps that deliver on organisational outcomes. This may include evaluating the credibility of goals and targets.
• →Turn strategy into action: Operate at the intersection of strategy and implementation, translating strategic objectives into delivery plans and supporting clients to implement them.

How you will contribute to the growth of our business

• →Support business development:Contribute to proposals, identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and help build our network across the market. 
• →Enhance our market presence: Contribute to how we articulate and showcase our capabilities internally and externally, including supporting client conversations, events and key pieces of insight. 
• →Contribute to thought leadership: Help develop practical insights and points of view on emerging industry topics, supporting both client impact and the growth of your own subject-matter profile. 

• 2 – 4 years of relevant professional experience, ideally within a management consultancy or an internal strategy, transformation or change function within the financial services industry.
• Experience supporting the delivery of complex, stakeholder-heavy projects in dynamic environments.
• Good collaboration skills, working effectively as part of a team and contributing positively to team outcomes.
• Focus on practical, actionable solutions that prioritise client outcomes, balancing ambition with what can be credibly delivered in real-world settings.

• Strong structured problem-solving skills and the ability to break down complex issues into practical, actionable steps.
• A strong interest in technology-enabled change within Financial Services, with the ability to translate business, regulatory or risk challenges into effective digital, data or systems-led solutions is advantageous.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders and communicating complex topics in a clear, outcome-focused way.
• Comfortable presenting in both formal and informal settings, adapting style to suit different audiences and contexts.
• Ability to structure work effectively, including organising tasks, managing time and delivering high-quality outputs to deadlines
• Ability to work in ambiguity and help shape evolving problem statements and project scopes.
• Analytical mindset, with attention to detail and the ability to interpret data, identify insights and support evidence-based recommendations.
• Familiarity with AI and emerging technologies, and the ability to leverage these to support delivery, insight generation and problem-solving.
• Good collaboration skills, working effectively as part of a team and contributing positively to team outcomes.
• Focus on practical, actionable solutions that prioritise client outcomes, balancing ambition with what can be credibly delivered in real-world settings.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. 

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com

For the USA

Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com

For Australia & Singapore

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com