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AI Strategist, Financial Services
Inside IR35, £700-£800 per day
6-month contract for 3 days a week, 1 day in London.
My client is a leading Financial Services business looking to hire an AI Strategist or AI consultant, on a 3 day a week assignment to drive a future roadmap for the businesses AI Strategy. The role will work with key executive stakeholders to challenge their current strategic approach, set out a future roadmap for AI that's feasible and supplying external, validated, knowledge into the Senior Leadership Team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Help drive a business-led enterprise AI strategy
- Advise senior leaders on value-driven AI adoption and strategic direction.
- Align business functions (Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, etc.) to outcome-focused AI roadmaps.
- Assess and guide existing AI consulting and agent-development teams.
- Provide expert insight on GenAI platforms (Gemini, Copilot) and AI limitations.
- Ensure AI strategy is realistic, value-focused, and aligned to enterprise goals.
Key Skills
- Proven experience developing enterprise-level AI strategies across large or complex organisations.
- Ideally background in Financial Services or another highly regulated industry (Banking, Insurance, Payments, FS consulting).
- Strong C-suite and Senior Leadership stakeholder management, with the ability to challenge thinking and influence direction.
- Hands-on understanding of GenAI platforms (e.g., Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic) and their practical constraints.
- Experience building AI roadmaps that align business functions (Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Operations, Digital, Risk).
- Knowledge of AI governance, risk, compliance, and responsible AI frameworks relevant to FS environments.
- Exposure to AI delivery teams, including MLOps, data engineering, AI consulting, or agent-development teams.
- Ability to translate complex technical capability into clear commercial value propositions.
- Comfortable assessing AI maturity, operating models, and organisational readiness.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking, with a track record of shaping direction at executive level.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
