Lily Cole

Senior Consultant · Financial services strategy · payments

Bain & Company

Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)

8+ years experience

NYU

English

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Overview

I work on financial services strategy at Bain & Company in Washington. Led a cost programme that saved a client $57 million. Ran commercial diligence on 40 deals. Before that: Fidelity Investments and Comcast. Most at home with banking strategy and payments.

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Collaborators for my side project
Mentors who have done this before
Working sessions on banking strategy
Questions about financial services strategy
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regulationbanking strategydue diligencecloud strategypayments

LearningLearning something

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Learning payments - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Move from individual contributor to leading a small financial services team.
Where I am now: Some experience
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in financial services strategy for a few years
Cadence: Every two weeks
What I can offer back: Help with frontend work

8 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Washington, DC · remote OKdue diligencebanking strategypayments

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Building a free course on cloud strategy for students - need co-instructors

Project: A free course on cloud strategy for students - need co-instructors
Skills needed: Design, regulation
Time commitment: Part-time
Outcome: Open-source release

A few hours a week. Some groundwork already done.

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Experience

Senior Consultant
Mar 2025 - Present
Bain & Company · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Led a cost programme that saved a client $89 million.
- Delivered 19 engagements across 10 countries.
Consultant
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Fidelity Investments · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Led a cost programme that saved a client $98 million.
- Designed the operating model for a 10 thousand-person transformation.
Business Analyst
Sep 2020 - Feb 2023
Comcast · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Moved 85% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Business Analyst
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Accenture · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
- Wrote the payments service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
- Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 36% in two quarters.

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Education

NYU
BA, Business Administration
2013 - 2017

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