Business / Operational Risk Consultant – Banking Integration Programme
Posted 7 days ago by i-confidential
£625 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Business / Operational Risk Consultant will play a crucial role in a major banking integration and transformation programme in Edinburgh, focusing on risk oversight and control activities. This position requires collaboration with senior stakeholders and delivery teams to ensure effective governance and operational resilience throughout the programme lifecycle. The consultant will support the identification and management of operational and technology risks while enhancing risk and control frameworks. The role is high-profile and demands experience in financial services and large-scale change initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support delivery of business and operational risk activity across a large-scale integration programme
- Provide risk oversight and challenge across change and transformation initiatives
- Assist in the identification, assessment and management of operational and technology risks
- Support the design, enhancement and embedding of risk and control frameworks
- Conduct control assurance and control effectiveness reviews
- Work closely with 1st and 2nd line teams, programme delivery functions and senior stakeholders
- Support governance forums, risk reporting and regulatory readiness activities
- Contribute to operational resilience and change risk initiatives
- Drive remediation and improvement activity where control gaps or weaknesses are identified
- Help embed consistent risk management practices across programmes and business functions
Key Skills:
- Experience in Business Risk and/or Operational Risk within Financial Services
- Experience in large-scale change, integration or transformation programmes
- Knowledge of risk & control frameworks, RCSA, controls assurance or controls testing
- Understanding of technology and operational risk environments
- Strong stakeholder management skills across senior business and technology teams
- Experience in governance, audit or assurance activity
- Background in banking or regulated financial services environments
- Experience in operational resilience, regulatory change programmes, technology risk or cyber risk oversight, SOX / controls testing, control automation initiatives, cloud, infrastructure or digital transformation programmes
- Experience working within complex regulated banking environments
Salary (Rate): £625 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Business / Operational Risk Consultant – Banking Integration Programme
Location: Edinburgh (2 days onsite per week)
Rate: £625 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract: 1st June 2026 – 18th December 2026
Start: 1st June 2026
We are supporting a major banking integration and transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Business / Operational Risk Consultant to join an established risk team supporting complex change across technology, operations and controls. This is a high-profile role within a fast-paced financial services transformation environment, requiring someone who can operate confidently across senior stakeholders, delivery teams and control functions. The successful candidate will support risk and control activity across integration, transformation and operational resilience initiatives, helping ensure robust governance, effective control environments and strong assurance outcomes throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Support delivery of business and operational risk activity across a large-scale integration programme
- Provide risk oversight and challenge across change and transformation initiatives
- Assist in the identification, assessment and management of operational and technology risks
- Support the design, enhancement and embedding of risk and control frameworks
- Conduct control assurance and control effectiveness reviews
- Work closely with 1st and 2nd line teams, programme delivery functions and senior stakeholders
- Support governance forums, risk reporting and regulatory readiness activities
- Contribute to operational resilience and change risk initiatives
- Drive remediation and improvement activity where control gaps or weaknesses are identified
- Help embed consistent risk management practices across programmes and business functions
We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in:
- Business Risk and/or Operational Risk within Financial Services
- Large-scale change, integration or transformation programmes
- Risk & control frameworks, RCSA, controls assurance or controls testing
- Technology and operational risk environments
- Stakeholder management across senior business and technology teams
- Governance, audit or assurance activity
- Banking or regulated financial services environments
Experience in any of the following would be highly advantageous:
- Operational Resilience
- Regulatory change programmes
- Technology risk or cyber risk oversight
- SOX / controls testing
- Control automation initiatives
- Cloud, infrastructure or digital transformation programmes
- Experience working within complex regulated banking environments