Policy Consultant

Flint is a leading advisory firm, serving clients who are managing issues around regulation, policy and politics. We are looking for a **consultant** with preferably some experience on **financial services public policy** to support the delivery of client work and business development work across our fast-growing Asia-Pacific team based in our **Singapore **office.

Our consultant team is at the heart of all we do at Flint. You will work closely with team members right across the business to support clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive commercially in a changing and increasingly uncertain policy environment.

You will have scope to engage with clients up to the most senior levels - including Board members and Executive teams - and across a wide range of sectors. The role will provide an unparalleled opportunity to research and analyse the complex policy challenges our clients face and develop options and approaches to address those challenges, backing up recommendations with wider strategic and political analysis.

Flint provides an excellent professional and educational environment for people to accelerate their personal and career development. 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.

Working in Singapore, you will join a small, but growing team, with the opportunity to take ownership of tasks and contribute to the company’s rapid growth in the region.

**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR**

You will have:

- A strong understanding of policy and politics.
- 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.
- Strong written communication skills, with proven ability to draft clear documents for internal and external audiences with varying degrees of expert knowledge.
- Strong oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues to non-specialists.
- Strong organisational skills, including the capacity to project manage client teams including, prioritising, planning and scheduling complex tasks proactively, and comfortable working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal skills - a flexible approach and the ability to work well across teams, both with internal colleagues and external clients.
- Experience of working on issues related to the financial services sector.
- Knowledge of digital or technology sectors, or ESG and sustainability is desirable.
- Fluency in English is required. Aptitude in other regional languages is desirable but not required (in particular, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese or Bahasa)

**TO APPLY**
- How your experience and skills qualify you for this specific role and its requirements.
- The policy areas in which you are knowledgeable and/or particularly interested.
- Your possible start date.

**ABOUT FLINT**

Flint is a leading global strategy consultancy. We are advisers to some of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and investors in Europe and the Asia-Pacific. We work at the point where government and business meet, drawing on our blend of international expertise and experience to offer an authoritative perspective on both.

We work with organisations affected by political, policy, or regulatory change. Our clients are 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.