About Us
Specialized, disciplined, and driven by measurable growth across every engagement.
Ektis, founded in 2025, is a financial services consulting firm built on decades of combined industry experience. Our diverse team of specialists brings deep sector expertise across the regional financial ecosystem, enabling us to turn complex challenges into practical, high-impact solutions.
As an expert-led, boutique firm, we operate as an extension of our clients - partnering closely with financial institutions to translate ambition into measurable progress. We focus on building enduring internal capability and applying creative problem-solving that delivers lasting impact.
Our approach integrates real-world insights with strategic thinking and disciplined execution. We define objectives with precision, map the pathways required, and deliver outcomes that work in practice - not just in presentation decks. Every deliverable is designed to be actionable, professional, and reflective of the capability and results our clients aim to achieve.
Our Vision
Redefining financial services consulting for a new era - accelerating ideas, deepening execution, and driving outcomes that matter.
Our Mission
We partner with financial institutions to turn ambition into measurable results. Guided by our entrepreneurial spirit, we integrate with client teams and combine strategic clarity, disciplined execution, and creative problem-solving to deliver lasting impact and build capabilitiesthatendure
Role Focus
As a commercial astute management consultant, you will drive sustainable improvement in operating cost efficiency and contra-revenue expense control by identifying inefficiencies, leakage, and value erosion across end-to-end processes, pricing, billing, and delivery models.
The role will balance cost discipline, revenue protection, and commercial pragmatism, ensuring efficiency gains do not compromise growth, client outcomes, or regulatory compliance.
Key Responsibilities
Cost efficiency & operating model optimization
- Identify and deliver cost reduction opportunities across people, process, technology, and sourcing
- Analyze Total Cost of Operation by product, client, and process
- Support operating model simplification, standardization, and automation
- Track, validate, and report cost savings
Contra-revenue & margin protection
- Identify drivers of contra-revenue expense including:
- Pricing overrides and discounts
- Rebates, incentives, and revenue share agreements
- Billing errors, refunds, claims leakage, penalties
- Quantify margin leakage and validate benefits
- Design and embed controls to prevent recurrence
Development of in-house Proprietary Tools
- Partner with in-house Technology team to develop tool(s) using AI capabilities to be leveraged during client engagements
End-to-end process & root cause analysis
- Map revenue and cost flows from contract / product design execution billing settlement
- Perform root cause analysis across process, system, data, and behavioral drivers
- Prioritize initiatives based on value, risk, and feasibility
Data, insight & performance management
- Develop KPIs and dashboards covering cost, contra-revenue, and operational performance
- Perform data reconciliation and exception analysis
- Use insight to drive targeted interventions and decision-making
Stakeholder engagement & change delivery
- Partner with teams like Finance, Product, Operations and Technology
- Challenge inefficiencies and leakage constructively
- Support implementation, adoption, and benefits realization
Key Skills, Experience And Behaviors
We believe great consultants combine analytical rigor with empathy, curiosity, and strong communication. At Ektis, we look for individuals who challenge assumptions, think critically, and bring a collaborative mindset.
You Are An Ideal Candidate If You Have
- Experience in cost optimization, operational efficiency, revenue assurance, margin optimization or contra revenue optimization
- Financial services experience (banking, payments, insurance, asset management)
- Strong analytical, data reconciliation and forensic skills
- Understanding of pricing, billing, and commercial drivers for different types of costs and products
- Ability to quantify financial impact credibly
- Proven stakeholder engagement
- Automation, RPA, or workflow optimization experience (Desirable)
- Risk, controls, or audit awareness (Desirable)
- Use of AI Tools (Desirable)
- Commercially astute and outcomes-focused
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Curious, forensic, and detail-oriented
- Resilient and credible with senior stakeholders
- Bias toward systemic solutions
Ektis Competency Framework
Our Competency Framework Provides a Transparent View Of The Behaviors And Capabilities We Expect At Each Grade, Supporting Growth, Development And Clarity Across The Firm. Associates Are Expected To Demonstrate Increasing Independence, Judgement And Ownership Across The Following Five Areas
Technical Capabilities Structured problem solving, analytical depth, technical expertise and building credibility with clients and within the firm.
Delivery Excellence Effective project planning and execution, developing junior team members, and fostering a balanced, sustainable working environment.
Effective Communication Clear, concise verbal, written and visual communication tailored to senior audiences.
Client Relations Building trusted, long-term client relationships and navigating complex stakeholder dynamics with confidence and maturity.
Ektis Spirit Role-modelling our values and behaviors, demonstrating entrepreneurial flair, and actively contributing to firm building.
What We Can Offer You
At Ektis, our people work every day to make a meaningful difference for clients, colleagues, and the financial services ecosystem. We support them through a competitive compensation package and a range of benefits designed to help them grow and thrive, including:
- Competitive compensation structure
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage
- Structured learning, mentorship, and on-the-job development opportunities
- Exposure to high-impact engagements in financial services and beyond
- A supportive, entrepreneurial culture with opportunities for mobility, innovation, and flexible work arrangements
