Principal Consultant (Senior Manager) – Non-Financial / Operational Risk

Overview

In this Principal Consultant role, you will lead enterprise-wide non-financial risk transformation initiatives for clients in financial services. You’ll guide complex engagements, advise senior stakeholders, and help shape risk capabilities within Capco’s FRRF practice. You’ll work on trade surveillance, market abuse controls, and AI-enabled risk monitoring to improve detection and reduce false positives. This is a high-impact, client-facing role that blends leadership, delivery excellence, and capability growth in a collaborative, entrepreneurial culture.

Pay / Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• competitive pension
• health insurance
• life insurance and critical illness cover
• Mental Health support
• Family-Friendly policies and leave options

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale risk transformation programmes across enterprise and operational risk
• Oversee trade surveillance and market abuse frameworks, optimizing detection scenarios and controls
• Advise clients on regulatory expectations and translate them into strategic solutions
• Apply and oversee AI and model tuning techniques to enhance risk monitoring, alert calibration, and false positive reduction
• Build and maintain senior stakeholder relationships, acting as trusted advisor to client leadership

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in enterprise or operational risk within financial services or consulting
• Strong knowledge of market abuse regulation, trade surveillance frameworks, and financial crime risk
• Experience with AI/ML models in risk or surveillance environments, including tuning and optimisation
• Proven ability to lead complex programmes and manage multiple stakeholders at senior levels
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence and challenge constructively

• Stakeholder management
• Communication and influencing
• Constructive challenging and collaboration
• AI/ML model tuning in risk or surveillance
• Trade surveillance and market abuse frameworks
• Regulatory knowledge related to financial crime risk

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