Top Independent Talent for Financial Services in India & the Middle East
Pre-vetted independent consultants with MBB, Big 4, and senior FS backgrounds — ready to deploy across banking, insurance, payments, and consulting projects across India and the Middle East.
Individual specialists, delivery squads, or always-on talent pools. Curated quality, deployed in days not months.
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Built for India and the Middle East's financial services landscape
Outsized connects banks, insurers, fintechs, payments companies, and consulting firms across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and India with independent talent who understand the regional market. From SAMA regulatory compliance to core banking transformation, digital payments, and insurance modernisation, our community brings the local market knowledge and hands-on operator expertise across both markets. India and the Middle East are two of the fastest-growing financial services markets globally.
Access India & the Middle East's most in-demand skills
Strategy & Growth
India and the MENA's most ambitious FS institutions are rewriting their operating models – digital banking launches, Vision 2030-linked growth programmes, and market entry strategies that need practitioners, not frameworks. Our talent have sat in the seat across banking, insurance, and fintech, delivering M&A integrations, GTM plans, and commercial strategy in markets where execution speed matters as much as the plan itself.
Product & Innovation
Digital banking is being built from scratch across MENA, while India's payments and lending infrastructure is transforming at scale. Our product specialists have built and shipped across core banking, UPI and real-time payments, digital onboarding, and insurance platforms. They understand how to move from concept to live product in regulated environments – and they have done it in markets like India and the UAE, not just from the outside.
Digital & Technology
Core banking modernisation, cloud migration, AI implementation, and enterprise architecture are on the critical path for institutions across both markets. Our talent have led these programmes inside major banks and fintechs – from India's tier-one lenders to MENA banks – and know how to maintain momentum in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Operators who have delivered it, not theorists who advise on it.
Delivery & Change
Regulatory timelines are fixed. Change programmes stack. In India and MENA, the volume of concurrent initiatives means programme management capability is under sustained pressure. Our delivery specialists have stood up PMOs, managed multi-workstream regulatory programmes, and driven business readiness across banking, payments, and insurance.
Risk, Compliance & Remediation
There is intensifying oversight, across open banking, digital lending, AML, and operational resilience in India and across MENA. Our risk and compliance specialists have led regulatory implementations, built risk frameworks, and delivered financial crime programmes across both markets. They can operate at the interface between regulators and internal teams.
Customer, Brand & Marketing
Digital banks and fintechs across MENA and India are competing aggressively for customer acquisition and loyalty. Our CX and marketing specialists have designed digital service journeys, built acquisition programmes, and turned data into retention strategies for financial services clients across both markets. They bring a commercial operator's mindset – and an understanding of regional customer behaviour.
How leading organisations use Outsized in India & the Middle East
Every engagement brief is matched by practitioners who understand your environment — the regulatory context, the delivery pressure, and what “good” looks like in practice. Clients don’t get 20 CVs for each role to sift through. They get 2–3 curated options they can genuinely hire, curated by people who’ve done the work themselves. Here’s how that plays out.
5 subject-matter experts with Risk and Compliance expertise for a global consulting firm
A global consulting firm, in the MENA region, secured a crucial mandate for a risk and compliance project involving several banks. The project aimed to ensure compliance with regulatory changes introduced by the regulator.
Challenge:
They urgently required five subject-matter experts with proven regional project experience. These profiles were scarce and not readily available. Speed and precision were essential.
Solution:
Outsized engaged directly with project leaders to define requirements precisely. Through targeted outreach and rigorous vetting, we assembled a curated shortlist within days – coordinating interviews, project briefings, and even expediting work visas where required.
Impact:
All five experts were placed and deployed on-site rapidly, enabling the consulting firm to meet regulatory deadlines and strengthen its client relationship. The banks successfully submitted reports on time, avoiding penalties. The consulting firm enhanced its credibility and delivery capacity.
Outsized in India & the Middle East. Built by ex-consultants, for FS clients who expect more.
Outsized brings a fundamentally different approach to accessing independent talent in India and the Middle East. We’re not a job board. We’re not a longlisting service. We’re your curated talent partner — built specifically for financial services, by people who understand what delivery in regulated environments actually requires. Our local team is based in Mumbai, and has worked on mandates across The Middle East. Every specialist on the platform is vetted for FS context: domain expertise, delivery under compliance constraints, and the judgement to operate where errors have consequences. With 60,000+ globally and deep regional coverage, we deliver the depth and speed that clients in both markets expect.
Azeem Zainulbhai
EMEA Co-Lead
Investment banking and private equity background at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, followed by CFO and Chief of Staff roles at fintech and marketplace scale-ups.
Experience from:
Yashraj Wade
Sales Executive
Yashraj is responsible for lead and revenue generation for the India and MENA regions. He has over 5 years of experience in the talent space in India and the Middle East.
Experience from:
Build agile financial services teams powered by top independent talent
In financial services, agility, innovation, and compliance must go hand-in-hand. Outsized enables clients to scale delivery capacity through specialised independent professionals who understand FS environments – from transformation and risk to digital, data, product, and innovation.
Talent-on-Demand
Quickly close capability and capacity gaps for your core functions and project teams. Onboard talent in days, not weeks or months. Access our platform of top independent consultants, skilled contractors, and seasoned experts with deep execution experience.
Outsized Teams
Outsized Teams deliver complete project outcomes through agile, hand-picked teams of proven consultants and experts. Each team is built to your brief and mobilised fast – with lower overheads, transparent pricing, and hands-on management from your Outsized Capability Lead.
Bench by Outsized
Bench gives always-on access to curated and continuously updated and maintained talent pools of top-tier independents across high-priority skill areas. Outsized guarantees quality, depth and availability of talent, so you can immediately deploy skills as and when you need them.
Contract-to-Hire
Speed up and de-risk hiring for both you and the talent. With our Contract-to-Hire model, employers and talent get to know each other during a ‘try before you buy’ period – ensuring a great match for both sides. Escape lengthy, broken recruitment processes and confirm suitability through on-the-job performance.
Meet some of our independent talent in India & the Middle East
Hardik Joshi
Commercial Cards Specialist
Experienced cards consultant specialising in commercial cards, with 13 years in financial services across B2B sales, cards portfolio management, and digital wallet operations in MENA.
Shalini Chabbra
Senior Risk Manager
Senior risk manager with over two decades of banking experience, specialising in credit risk, portfolio underwriting, and risk policy across large corporates, SMEs, and structured finance in India.
Shatakshi Singh
Project Manager
Certified PMP with 17 years leading PMOs and digital transformation programmes across banking, insurance, and consulting, including portfolios of 300M+, across MENA.
Read about the work we've done in India and the Middle East
Talent-on-demand for a global strategy consulting firm
How Outsized helped an MBB firm focusing on a high-capital expenditure, offshore energy project with independent talent
Building digital financial services talent pools for Oliver Wyman
Outsized and Oliver Wyman partnered to put together world-beating teams with independent consultants for a number of cutting-edge projects in the digital financial services space.
Subject-matter experts with Risk and Compliance expertise for a global consulting firm
How Outsized supported a global consulting firm's risk and compliance project with local and niche skillsets.
Let’s talk about your talent needs
Outsized gives financial services firms in India & the Middle East access to independent talent that is pre-vetted, fast to deploy, and genuinely experienced in FS delivery.
Whether you need a single specialist this week, a team built for a complex programme, or an always-on talent bench, we move quickly without compromising on quality. We don’t send longlists. We send the right people.
Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll come back to you straight away.