Fellowship Consulting - Financial Services / Data & AI (3-6 months)

Job description

*We are looking for Fellows starting in April 2027 for 3 to 6 months.* Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling, headquartered in Munich. The work is hard. The bar is high. Convince during your Fellowship and earn the opportunity to join ALAIKA full-time after graduation, **with partner-track ambition from day one.** **Stop reading if any of these describe you:** - **Drive.**You need someone to fire the starting gun **→** We only hire people who can prove they are intrinsically driven and execute. - **Ownership.**You spot the problem and walk it to your boss**→**We fall in love with problems. Own them. Solve them. Ship solutions. - **Speed.**Slow is your default**→**Speed compounds. Be smart and brave enough to select 80/20 in the right way. - **Mindset.**"Not possible" is part of your vocabulary**→**We hire people who always find a way. ## **Still there? Then ALAIKA might be for you.** At ALAIKA, our vision is to build the future of Financial Services with three brands under one roof — Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we are in the midst of building our trojan horse ALAIKA Advisory. The ambition: building the leading Financial-Services-specific entrepreneurial holding — Fortune 500 access, PE discipline, Silicon Valley technology-depth and thinking. **Three networks that compound and multiply.** - **One industry.**Financial Services. Nothing else. - **One focus.**The intersection of business and technology — across Strategic Transformations, AI & Data Intelligence, and Cybersecurity. - **One goal.**Being the go-to partner for the world's leading Fortune 500 financial services companies — and the ones we might help build into that. Founded in October 2022 by [**Johanna von Geyr**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-von-geyr-374b81/) (build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and [**Harald Braunstein**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harald-braunstein/) (serial entrepreneur with exits incl. IPO), we bring together deep functional domain expertise and networks in global Financial Services, with a proven track record in building, scaling, and investing in leading software product companies.  Curious what ALAIKA is all about? Explore our [website](https://www.alaika-advisory.com/) and [introduction deck](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pX8HFTMUueKa5bTrP3k22kR1kFjq2Ot9/view). **Join the movement — apply now.** ## **The role and what you will work on** - **Advise.**Take on the most pressing strategic and technology challenges of the world’s leading financial services companies — across **Strategy, Data & AI, and Cyber.****In the room with decision-makers from day one.** - **Own.**Own your deliverables end-to-end. **You are not support staff for the seniors**. - **Learn.**Build the analytical, interpersonal, and business skills that define exceptional consultants. **Work alongside colleagues of all levels**, receive close coaching, and learn how high-stakes advisory work is done in practice. - **Build.**We are scaling, with real building left to do — IP, processes, go-to-market, strategy. You do not just deliver client work; **you co-build the firm**. That is not a slogan — it is your Tuesday. ## **When you are a fit** *“Show me an athlete who did well academically. An athlete because they know what it takes to win and they have had to experience loss.”* *— Kenneth C. Griffin, Founder of Citadel* You will work alongside intrinsically driven people chasing an uncapped career — people who do "what it takes". You fear "being one more number stuck in middle management". Your goal is to make it to the top: at ALAIKA itself, at a leading investment or financial services firm, or in a company you build yourself — ALAIKA can help with that too. - **Book-smart.**Strong academic foundation. Think in structures, not gut feel. - **Street-smart.**Read the room fast. Prioritise ruthlessly. Grasp commercial reality. - **People-smart.**Communicate with precision — clear, direct, persuasive. Build trust across functions and seniority. - **Athlete performance mindset.**High aspirations. Grit. Learn faster than the environment changes. - **Entrepreneurial guts.**Self-confident achiever. Act first, apologise later — speed is everything. Take full ownership of work normally reserved for far more senior profiles. ## **What you bring** - **Background.**Currently studying or graduated, top 10% of your class at a top-tier university. Analytical field — CS, Math, Physics, Finance, or equivalent rigour. Minimum 4th Bachelor semester. - **Experience.**Previous experience as a working student or intern in a high-pressure, results-driven environment — top strategy consultancy, PE/VC-backed company, fast-growing tech, or demanding corporate financial services role. Hands-on Data & AI experience, as well as financial services experience, is a plus. - **Leadership.**You have led — a team, a club, a project, a cause. **We hire people who make things happen.** - **Analytical edge.**Data-driven by default. Leverage data to drive decisions, not just decorate slides. - **Languages.**Fluent in English and German. Additional languages are a plus. ## **Why join ALAIKA**