Consultancy programme explained
Our consultancy programme is built on three pillars: personal leadership, consultancy skills, and sector knowledge. Throughout the three-year programme, you’ll be guided by a performance manager who supports your professional and personal development. You’ll start at multinational companies, where you can build your network and career opportunities. All assignments are client-driven and typically last six to nine months.
Consultancy roles
As a consultant, you take on diverse and impactful roles within the Finance and Risk domain. You lead key projects such as risk assessments at de Volksbank, the development of financial models for ING, and software development initiatives at ABN AMRO. You tackle complex challenges involving financial data, improve reporting processes, and present proposals for enhancements. Your work focuses on themes such as new regulations, process optimisation, improving data quality, and refining reports.
In project management roles, you lead large-scale initiatives at pension funds and drive process optimisation at leading banks.
As a consultant, you progress from an analytical entry-level position to a leadership role. You refine your consultancy skills through targeted training and hands-on coaching, while also developing your personal leadership. This accelerates your growth and constantly challenges you to exceed your own expectations.
What you can expect from us
Our consultancy team is a close-knit group of professionals who enjoy sharing knowledge and experiences. To help you connect and build relationships with fellow consultants and colleagues across our organisation, we organise:
- Regular team lunches to discuss project experiences.
- Social events with engaging activities and inspiration.
- Cultural events where we share dishes and stories from different cultures.
- Knowledge-sharing sessions.
- A regular office day at our Utrecht headquarters.
- Sports facilities, including access to the gym and in-house fitness classes.
Year 1: Foundation and exploration
Personal leadership:
Your consultancy journey starts with a deep dive into personal leadership and mental resilience. You’ll explore being challenged in a safe environment, vulnerability, and enhancing your interpersonal dynamics. The focus on MBTI profiling (a model that helps you discover your personality type) prepares you for the challenges and dynamics of the consulting profession.
Consultancy skills:
Develop your consultancy knowledge, from aligning with our core values to mastering storytelling in presentations. You’ll progress through consultative selling, requirements setting, problem-solving, stakeholder management, project management, and Agile methodologies.
Sector knowledge:
Gain a robust understanding of banking operations, financial reporting, and risk management. Sharpen your skills in financial markets, change management, and technical areas like Excel, SQL, data governance, Power BI, and Tableau by following courses from our own learning and development platform ‘Solid Academy’.
Check Tim en Figou’s first year as a consultant >
Year 2: Deepening skills and specialisation
Personal leadership:
Elevate your leadership abilities with transition-based leadership. We delve into the next level of MBTI training, positive thinking, intervision with our peers, and transactional analysis, crucial for developing as an effective leader.
Consultancy skills:
This year is about optimising your communication, navigating complex policy frameworks, and sharpening your problem-solving skills. Embrace the agile product owner role and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, while learning landscape analysis and integrating sustainability and climate risk knowledge.
Sector knowledge:
Specialise in data warehouse concepts and data quality management, essential for high-level decision-making and financial data analysis.
Year 3: Customisation and personalisation
The third year breaks the mould, offering a tailor-made training experience aligned with your personal development needs and career aspirations. This year is about applying the learned concepts in real-world scenarios and further specialising in areas that fuel your passion and career objectives. It’s a unique opportunity to shape your learning path, ensuring you emerge from the traineeship as a highly-skilled, adaptable, and insightful consultant, ready to make a significant impact in the industry.
Future roles as a consultant
The 3-year consultancy programme and the wide range of client assignments give you a solid all-round foundation to become a fully-fledged consultant. In the first two years, we form the foundation and in year 3 you’ll specialise in your niche.
After three years, you can switch to one of the consultancy labels within our parent company The Hup or become a managing consultant within Solid Professionals.
- RiskSphere: senior business consultancy with a focus on environmental and sustainability reporting.
- Firm C: senior business consultancy focusing on data-driven Finance & Risk, legislation and regulations, project management and process optimisation.
- Managing consultant: leading, coaching, and guiding juniors within the consultancy programme.
We offer a large educational budget, giving you the freedom to pursue relevant learning opportunities like the CFA or specialised training, when proven valuable to your development. This enhances your skills and contributes to our collective expertise and success in the financial sector.
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Questions about our programme?
Ready to start your journey as a consultant? Send us a message! Need someone to brainstorm with? Get in touch with our corporate recruiter, Klodin!
