Description
Main Purpose of Role We are looking for experienced Generalist Risk/Regulatory Change Consultants to support a large-scale risk and regulatory transformation programme within a leading financial-services organisation.
The consultants will work across a range of risk and regulatory initiatives rather than being aligned exclusively to one specialist risk discipline.
The role requires individuals with broad financial-services Risk experience who can operate across the intersection of Risk and Regulatory Compliance, conduct detailed analysis and translate regulatory requirements into practical changes across risk frameworks, policies, processes and controls.
European regulatory experience would be particularly valuable.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Risk and Regulatory Change initiatives across multiple workstreams.
- Conduct gap and impact analysis across existing risk frameworks, policies, processes and controls.
- Support assessment of new and evolving regulatory requirements and their potential impact.
- Contribute to regulatory horizon scanning and assessment of relevant regulatory developments.
- Interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into practical Risk and Compliance actions.
- Review existing risk policies, frameworks and processes and identify areas requiring enhancement.
- Support implementation of changes arising from regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with stakeholders across Risk, Regulatory Compliance and relevant business functions.
- Gather, analyse and document regulatory and risk requirements.
- Identify potential gaps, dependencies and areas of risk exposure.
- Produce clear risk and regulatory analysis for senior stakeholders.
- Provide hands-on support across different risk disciplines according to programme priorities.
Skills and Experience
Essential Strong experience within Risk, Enterprise Risk, Regulatory Risk, Regulatory Compliance or a related financial-services function.
Broad understanding of risk-management frameworks, governance, policies and controls.
Experience delivering Risk, Regulatory or Compliance change.
Hands-on experience conducting gap analysis, impact assessments or similar risk/regulatory analysis.
Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into practical changes.
Experience working across Risk and/or Regulatory Compliance stakeholder groups.
Strong analytical and documentation skills.
Experience within banking or another highly regulated financial-services environment.
Evidence of hands-on delivery rather than solely strategic oversight.
Desirable
Strong understanding of EU financial-services regulation and European regulatory requirements.
Regulatory horizon-scanning experience.
Experience working across both Risk and Regulatory Compliance.
Experience supporting European regulatory transformation.
Broad exposure across multiple risk disciplines.
FRTB/Market Risk exposure.
Liquidity Risk experience.
Balance-sheet risk knowledge.
Experience within a major bank or capital-markets environment.
Personal Requirements
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
Comfortable working across several Risk disciplines.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and turn them into clear actions.
Proactive and hands-on approach.
Comfortable working within a complex and evolving regulatory environment.
Skills
- Risk
- Regulatory
- change
- EU Regulation
- risk management
Job Title:: Risk/Regulatory Change Consultant
Location:: London, UK
Job Type:: Contract