Director – Financial Services Regulatory Strategy

Overview

In this Director role, you will lead high-impact financial services regulatory advisory work, translating regulation into strategic business advice. You’ll collaborate with Partners and senior clients to navigate complex regulatory challenges, shaping proposals and new offerings. The position sits at a fast-growing specialist consultancy that blends regulation, commercial strategy and innovative business models. You’ll help build the Financial Services practice and develop your external profile in a high-exposure environment.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual bonus
• longer-term upside/participation in firm’s success

Responsibilities

• Lead complex financial-services regulatory advisory engagements
• Collaborate with Partners and senior client stakeholders
• Advise CEOs, boards, investors and other senior decision-makers
• Structure ambiguous regulatory and commercial problems
• Lead small teams of professionals and SMEs
• Contribute to proposals, business development and relationship building
• Develop thought leadership and external profile
• Help shape new advisory propositions and areas
• Play an active role in building the Financial Services practice
• Potential accelerated progression toward Partner

Key requirements

• Exceptional intellectual and analytical capability
• Strategic, not solely rules-based thinking
• Strong understanding of UK financial-services regulation
• Commercial judgement and confidence with senior stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Curiosity, problem-solving for unfamiliar issues
• Initiative and personal ownership
• Ability to develop and win client relationships
• Background in regulatory strategy consulting, supervision or enforcement, or senior regulatory roles

• excellent communication
• strategic/analytical thinking
• leadership and team management
• regulatory strategy
• regulatory change
• conduct risk

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