Top Independent Talent for Financial Services in South East Asia
Access pre-vetted independent consultants with MBB, Big 4, and senior FS backgrounds – ready to deploy across banking, insurance, payments, and consulting projects across South East Asia. Individual specialists, delivery squads, or always-on talent pools.
Curated quality, deployed in days not months.
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Built for South East Asia's financial services and consulting landscape
Outsized connects banks, insurers, fintechs, payments companies, and consulting firms across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines with leading independent professionals who understand the regional market – from MAS and BSP regulatory requirements to core banking transformation, digital payments, and insurance modernisation. With deeply vetted independents based across the region – and the ability to bring in global specialists when projects demand it – we deliver depth, quality, and speed across South East Asia.
Access South East Asia's most in-demand independent talent expertise
Strategy & Growth
Our strategy consultants have sat in the seat – leading market entry across ASEAN, redesigning operating models, and building growth strategies from the inside. They bring real execution experience across banking, insurance, and wealth management, not just frameworks and slide decks. When you need someone who can own the outcome, not just advise on it.
Product & Innovation
Digital payments, embedded finance, open banking – South East Asia's product landscape is evolving faster than anywhere else in the world. Our product specialists have built and shipped across core banking, digital wallets, insurance platforms, and wealth apps. They understand what it takes to move from concept to live product in complex, multi-market regulatory environments, and they've done it more than once.
Digital & Technology
Cloud migrations stall. Platform re-builds overrun. Data programmes lose direction. Our digital and technology consultants have led these programmes inside South East Asia's major financial institutions and know how to keep them moving in complex, multi-entity environments. From software engineering and data architecture to AI and system integration – practitioners, not theorists.
Delivery & Change
Complex programmes need people who've run them before. Our delivery specialists have stood up PMOs, managed multi-workstream transformations, and driven business readiness across the region's banks, insurers, and fintechs. They bring structure without bureaucracy and know how to land change that actually sticks.
Risk, Compliance & Remediation
MAS, OJK, BNM, BSP – the regulatory environment across South East Asia is complex and increasingly demanding. Our risk and compliance specialists have led remediation programmes, built enterprise risk frameworks, and navigated multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements at the coalface. They understand both the regulation and the operational reality of meeting it.
Customer, Brand & Marketing
With large, growing insurance and bancassurance markets across the region, demand for actuarial and finance expertise is acute. Our finance and actuarial specialists bring deep technical capability combined with practical delivery experience across life, general, and health insurance platforms in South East Asia.
How leading organisations use Outsized in South East Asia
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 vetted options they can genuinely hire, curated by people who’ve done the work themselves.
Building digital financial services talent pools for a global strategy consulting firm
Oliver Wyman’s Asia-Pacific team was seeing a surge in demand for projects helping clients build new digital financial services propositions across Southeast Asia – but was facing a capacity crunch in key areas: Strategy, product management, PMO, and customer experience.
Challenge:
Growing project pipeline in digital financial services with insufficient internal capacity and capability to staff engagements at the quality standard expected.
Solution:
Outsized partnered with Oliver Wyman to build four bespoke talent pools through Bench – pre-vetted Strategy Consultants, Product Managers, PMOs, and Customer Experience specialists, all with deep digital FS experience. A streamlined vetting process ensured pools were ready to deploy at pace.
Impact:
Oliver Wyman gained a reliable, on-demand talent bench that integrated seamlessly with their own teams. Rapid project initiation, no capacity or capability gaps, and the confidence to pitch for new work knowing the right talent was already lined up.
Outsized has quickly become an important partner for Oliver Wyman in the Asia Pacific region for our talent-on-demand needs. They enable us to grow quickly, without any compromises on quality.
– Kirsty Hill, Director Talent, Asia Pacific Region, Oliver Wyman
Outsized in South East Asia. Built by ex-consultants and industry leaders, for clients who expect more
Outsized brings a fundamentally different approach to accessing independent talent in South East Asia. Founded by former big brand consultants and financial services leaders, we understand what quality delivery looks like from both sides of the table. With a local team based in Singapore, Malaysia, and a curated platform of independent professionals based across the region, plus access to 60,000+ globally – we deliver depth, coverage, and uncompromising quality. We’re not a job board. We’re not a longlisting service. We’re your curated talent partner.
Anurag Bhalla
CEO
With nearly two decades of experience in consulting and FS, expertise in digital transformation and innovation.
Experience from:
Sara Kahlau
APAC Lead & CPO
Sara leads the APAC regions and our product function. She has 15 years of experience from Consulting, Digital Transformation, and Innovation.
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 South East Asia's leading independent professionals
Peter Scheffer
Agile Coach
Certified Agile Coach with 10 years of experience leading large-scale agile transformations and digital programme delivery across financial services and consulting
Sara Zanichelli
Digital Strategy Consultant
Digital transformation consultant with 15+ years of experience across retail banking, corporate banking, and insurance in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia
John Boet
Product Manager
Fintech product manager with 20 years of experience in product development, system design, and business analysis, specialising in CRM, fund tracking, and market data solutions.
Read about the work we've done in South East Asia
Scaling up in Taiwan and Australia
How Outsized helped a FS-focused consulting firm expand across APAC with local independent professionals.
Meeting regulatory demands with confidence
Oliver Wyman and Outsized collaboration in the cybersecurity space.
Accelerating payments product delivery with an acquiring squad
How Outsized teams helped a major Asian bank to scale their existing capabilities without any fixed costs.
Let’s talk about your South East Asian talent needs
Outsized gives financial services firms across South East Asia 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.