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

We are looking for Fellows 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 (build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and 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 and introduction deck . 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 function