Description:
Our client is seeking to recruit an expert Manager for their Financial Services Risk and Regulatory Team within the Advisory Consulting Practice.
You will get to work with like-minded, hard-working individuals. Our multi-disciplinary teams are structured to best meet our clients’ requirements, with appropriate skills, expertise and levels ranging from in-depth technical knowledge through to hands-on practical experience.
Their Financial Services Consulting team is a large professional team with a variety of backgrounds and experience across the insurance, banking, regulation, asset and wealth management sectors. They have a range of skills, spanning strategic, operational and specialist regulatory experience to solve difficult problems.
The successful candidates will demonstrate a drive to deliver the best outcomes, will collaborate effectively within our team and use their experience and skills to provide outstanding services to their clients.
Their clients include well-known local and global financial institutions, who have engaged our team to help with:
- Large scale transformation programmes, including Managed Change programmes
- Operating model redesign, operational effectiveness and efficiency
- Location strategy, including outsourcing operations and oversight arrangements
- Transaction implementation and off-boarding support
- Design and enhancement of corporate customer journeys
- Corporate lending risk management and regulatory programmes
- On-boarding new books of business
- Technological optimisation and enhancements
- Digital technologies and disruption, artificial intelligence and robotics
The Person:
A suitably qualified person will require the following skills:
- Knowledge of banking operations including product and service offerings
- Want to work as part of a strong team, in a challenging environment
- Have strong organisational, planning, and problem-solving skills, can multi-task and demonstrate flexible thinking
- Good with people, develop supportive relationships and can work in a team
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills including report drafting and delivering presentations
- Can prioritise your work and lead stakeholder expectations, both internally and client work
- Have a positive demeanour, with the ability to work on your own initiative
- Have a critical and analytical mindset and combine technical expertise with an interest in business development.
- 3rd level degree, grade achieved at least 2.1.
- MBA or further studies desirable
- Recognised project management qualifications desirable
- Leading/coaching a team
- Working on project teams desirable
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, interpersonal, problem solving and organisational skills with a highly agile approach to work
- Experience of working in or with financial service organisations
- A strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong analytical and report-writing skills
- An ability to build strong networks, both externally and within the firm
- High level proficiency in Microsoft Office tools i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, Word.