The BA Kinetics (BAK) Programme blends formal training, mentoring and sponsored industry certification with real exposure to client delivery. Participants develop core capabilities across financial and commercial analysis, client relationship management and collaboration.

Through assignments on projects with leading financial institutions, participants gain hands-on experience across regulatory change, operational optimisation and transformation initiatives. Each individual is supported by a dedicated career coach and project lead throughout.

Graduates of the BAK scheme move into Senior Consultant roles, making it a clear and accelerated pathway for long-term career progression within the firm.

These modules are designed to help you to develop across a number of areas and build your network, whilst supporting our business growth. You will be assessed by formal examinations, interviews, presentations and feedback on the materials you deliver.

The programme consists of modules aligned to four core objective areas. These modules are designed to help you develop across a number of areas and build your network, whilst supporting our business growth.

Financial & Commercial

• Business development — present a business idea on how to grow NLC, once a year

• Artefacts development — deliver artefacts to facilitate NLC business, once a year

• Digital strategy — LinkedIn, blogs and newsletter activity, ongoing through the year

Client Relationship

• Client delivery — assessed through client feedback on performance on assignment

• Client & NLC team delivery — assessed through assignment lead feedback on performance

• Assignment presentation — presentation on your client and assignment, once a year

Company & Culture

• Building NLC culture — organise an internal NLC event; monthly days in the office

• Developing others (training) — design and deliver a Lunch & Learn or Tech Briefing session

• Developing others (support) — act as a buddy for a new BAK joiner

Skills Development

• Training across financial services knowledge, technical skills and consultant soft skills

• Completion of 24 Acumen eLearning modules over the two years (one per month)

• Sponsorship toward an industry-recognised certification, such as a BCS BA qualification or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, agreed with your career coach

You will be assessed through formal examinations, presentations to peers and partners, client feedback, and the materials you produce. A rating of 3 or higher is required to pass each module.

Training is delivered through a mix of classroom sessions (in-house and vendor-led), on-line learning via the Acumen eLearning platform, and workshops. You will complete one Acumen module per month across the two-year programme — a total of 24 core modules covering topics such as financial markets, the trade lifecycle, risk and control, and the regulatory environment.

Training also covers technical skills (business analysis, BRD writing, Microsoft Office), consultant soft skills (self-leadership, networking, presentation), and sponsorship toward an industry-recognised certification agreed with your career coach.

If you have already covered certain areas in a previous role, it may be possible to fast-track directly to a module assessment rather than completing the full training course — subject to agreement with your career coach.

During your time on the programme you will work on a number of different client assignments across leading financial institutions. Assignments typically focus on areas such as regulatory-driven transformation and remediation, risk and control optimisation, or target operating model design and implementation.

We will ensure you have the appropriate training before going on-site, and you will always be part of a New Link Consulting team assembled to provide an optimal mix of skills and experience levels.

Your assignments are opportunities to develop and demonstrate:

• Relationship management and stakeholder communication

• Influencing skills

• Identifying and mapping stakeholders

• Representing New Link Consulting professionally

• Collaborative team-working

Client feedback forms a formal part of your module assessment and feeds into your mid- and end-of-year performance reviews.

All permanent employees joining New Link Consulting at either the Analyst or Consultant Analyst grade will enter the BAK Programme. Other employees may also be invited to join on a case-by-case basis.

The successful candidate will typically have 18 months to 3 years of work experience in financial services, in a consultancy and/or financial institution (such as an investment or commercial bank, general insurer, asset manager, or clearing house). We are looking for individuals who display:

• Strong analytical skills

• Well-developed communication and relationship-building abilities

• Proactivity in driving their own career growth as well as the development of others

• A collaborative and entrepreneurial mindset

• The ability to bring innovative ideas to both New Link Consulting and our clients

Role title: Analyst or Consultant Analyst, depending on experience

Salary & benefits: Dependent on experience; discussed at interview stage

Location: Primarily London, though travel may be required depending on the specific client assignment

Travel: Many of our successful BAK applicants will have the opportunity to work abroad, broadening their cultural knowledge and business experience — something we see as key to the development of our people

Equal opportunities: We are committed to providing equality of opportunity in all areas, whether in recruitment and selection, promotion, or training and development