Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager – Risk & Regulatory Transformation (Financial Services)

Overview

Join PA’s Delivery Team to help financial institutions navigate regulatory change and build delivery capability across complex programs. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to realise high-value outcomes, from governance and controls to resilience and cyber risk transformation. This is an impact-driven role in a collaborative, advisory environment that shapes regulatory delivery for banking, insurance and markets infrastructure. You’ll help clients sustain operational effectiveness while strengthening trust and compliance.

Pay / Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks including private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (+ bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
• Generous pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Cycle to work and other tax-efficient benefits

Responsibilities

• Lead regulatory change programs from impact assessment to implementation and assurance
• Deliver operational resilience, cyber resilience or risk transformation initiatives
• Implement new regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations across financial services
• Manage large-scale compliance, controls or governance transformation programs
• Lead remediation programs following regulatory findings, audits or internal reviews
• Design and implement enhanced risk management, governance and control frameworks
• Manage complex stakeholder groups including risk, compliance, legal, operations and executive leadership
• Deliver regulatory change across banking, insurance, wealth management or market infrastructure organizations
• Implement technology, data and RegTech solutions to improve compliance, monitoring and reporting
• Establish sustainable operating models embedding regulatory compliance, resilience and risk management capability

Key requirements

• Experience helping financial institutions respond to regulatory change
• Strengthen resilience, manage risk and deliver complex compliance transformations
• Ability to engage credibly with senior regulatory, risk and compliance stakeholders
• Strong track record of delivering measurable risk reduction and compliance outcomes
• Deep understanding of the financial services regulatory environment
• Commercial awareness and consulting experience
• Passion for solving regulatory and operational challenges
• Experience leading or contributing to major regulatory change programs

• Stakeholder management at senior levels
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Strong communication and advisory skills
• DORA
• Operational Resilience
• Data Privacy and Data Protection

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