Consultant - Financial Services

We are looking for a consultant to join Flint’s expanding financial services team. At a time of significant political and policy change, successful candidates will have a unique opportunity to support the continuing development of Flint’s business in this area and work on an exciting array of complex policy and regulatory issues for our clients.

This will involve working closely with senior team members across Flint to advise clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy with a specific focus on UK financial services. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive in an evolving policy environment. Our clients include asset managers, banks, financial market infrastructure (FMI) companies, fintechs and other financial institutions as well as alternatives, portfolio companies and corporates.

The financial services team works across Flint’s London and our international offices in Brussels, Paris and Hong-Kong/Singapore with our advice often covering multiple jurisdictions. As our financial services offering continues to expand across jurisdictions and sectors, you will have the opportunity to help shape its development and growth.

As part of the Flint team, you will share insights about key policy challenges, to enable your clients to deliver the best possible outcomes. You will support client accounts to deliver high quality outputs for our clients including monitoring, research, analysis and reports. You will also contribute to business development by researching prospective clients and helping to identify new opportunities for Flint.

Flint provides an excellent professional and educational environment for people to accelerate their personal and career development. You will be provided with the training needed to deliver high quality monitoring, research and analysis to support clients. There will be space to engage in discussion and debates on substantive policy and political challenges, as well as significant scope for progression through the company.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Consultants generally come to Flint with c. 18 months-4 years’ work experience.

We are looking for candidates with experience working in and around financial services policy, regulation, public affairs or related commercial environments. This may have been gained in government, a regulator, consultancy, think tank, trade association, financial institution or other relevant organisation.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills – the ability to draw out the implications of complex evidence and analysis to give clear strategy and policy advice
• An ability and enthusiasm to rapidly get up to speed on new issues, with a particular interest in policy and politics.
• Strong written communication skills, with proven ability to draft clear documents for internal and external audiences with varying degrees of expert knowledge
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues to non-specialists
• Strong organisational skills including the ability to balance multiple priorities, provide responsive support to clients and deliver high quality work within tight timeframes.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including a flexible approach and the ability to work well across teams, both with internal colleagues and external clients

Flint is licensed to sponsor international workers, and we would welcome applications from both UK and non-UK candidates.

TO APPLY

Please submit your CV along with a short cover letter by 31 July 2026. If we identify appointable candidates before the deadline we may interview and make offers, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

STANDING OUT

To be successful, please submit your CV and cover letter (max 600 words)

setting out:

• How your experience and skills qualify you for this specific role and its requirements.
• Specific financial services policy areas you are knowledgeable in and have experience with.
• Your possible start date

ABOUT FLINT

Flint is a leading boutique consultancy. We are advisers to some of the largest investors, corporates, and financial institutions in Europe and Asia. We work at the intersection of governments and businesses, drawing on our blend of expertise and experience to offer an authoritative perspective on both.

Flint works with investors and businesses affected by political, policy, or regulatory change. We support senior executives looking to improve the trajectory of their business, or to achieve commercial outcomes through policy or regulatory change. Flint helps them to drive their businesses forward.

Flint’s financial services practice works across our offices in London, Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore, advising clients on policy and regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions. While this role is London-based and focused primarily on UK financial services, you will have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across our international network and support projects with a European and global dimension. We offer successful candidates the opportunity to advance within the company.

Flint takes care of its people. We enjoy challenging each other’s thinking and working hard on a wide variety of interesting and stimulating projects, while simultaneously respecting life outside Flint. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

BENEFITS

We offer

• Competitive starting salary
• Private health insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection insurance
• UK Pension scheme
• Generous discretionary bonus and pay review
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays & extra leave at Christmas
• Training and development
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Employee referral recruitment bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no application or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.