Why your back-office experience is the secret weapon for a career in management consulting.
Stop seeing your BPS role as "just operations." Start seeing it as the competitive advantage for a career in strategy. Ready to make the switch? Update your LinkedIn headline to "Operations to Strategy" today. Reach out to one SMC consultant this week for an informational interview. Ask them: "What is the biggest operational risk you see in your cases?" bps to smc
Junior strategy consultants often propose beautiful ideas that fail because they ignore settlement times, legacy infrastructure, or regulatory friction. You know exactly where the "rubber meets the road." That makes your strategies actionable. Why your back-office experience is the secret weapon
But when that tech giant needs to figure out how to get paid across 12 emerging markets without breaking compliance? They won't hire a generalist strategist. They will hire —the BPS expert who learned to think like an SMC consultant. Update your LinkedIn headline to "Operations to Strategy"
If you’ve spent the last few years deep in the world of BPS (Banking Payment Systems or Business Process Services), you might look at a career in SMC (Strategic Management Consulting) and think, “I don’t belong there.”
From Process to Strategy: Successfully Transitioning from BPS to SMC