Jiri Steif is a partner in A.T. Kearney's Financial Services Practice. He has over 16 years of consulting experience in banking, insurance, and consumer goods, focusing on strategy, transformation, post-merger integration, business planning, and strategic sourcing. He has worked across multiple geographies, including United States, Great Britain, NL, Austria, Central Eastern Europe, and Southeast Europe.

Jiri possesses vast expertise in strategy, PMI and transformation, operational effectiveness and corporate governance, banking, insurance, and consumer goods.

His representative engagements include:

Led large-scale, post-merger integration and transformation programs for a leading Eastern European banks
Led integration of two leading Hungarian banks
Developed a regional strategy for Eastern Europe for several leading global financial services groups
Restructured a major Eastern Europe insurance company and developed a six-year business plan with the primary focus on life insurance
Strategy development for a major Eastern Europe bank, design and implementation of its financial group strategy, design of the group’s governance model, and identification of synergies among subsidiaries and the bank
Development of several business-line strategies, including affluent banking, consumer lending, mortgage banking, small-and-mid-sized banking for leading Central Eastern Europe banks
Design of sales-efficiency programs for both the retail banking as well as small-and-mid-sized business lines for leading Central Eastern Europe banks
Governance model development and streamlining of corporate functions for several Central Eastern Europe banks
Performance model preparation for a leading Central Eastern Europe financial services group
Multiple projects focused on operational effectiveness, ranging from business process reengineering, shared services development, and in/outsourcing, to procurement restructuring and strategic sourcing

Jiri received an MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, United States and Diplom-Ingenieur from the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic in international business and corporate finance. He also holds a certificate in marketing management from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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