Managing Principal (Director) - Regulatory Change

Shape the Future of the Regulatory landscape– Join Capco as a Regulatory Change Managing Principal / Director

Location: UK – London or Edinburgh

Practice Area: Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation, Finance Employment

Type: Permanent

Capco is expanding our Regulatory Change team, and we’re looking for an experienced Regulatory Change Director who can help leading financial services organizations navigate the complex landscape of evolving regulations, particularly in trade and transaction reporting. If you bring deep expertise in regulatory compliance, strong consulting skills, and a passion for solving intricate regulatory challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

Why This Role

As a Capco Regulatory Change Director, you will be a strategic advisor and leader, guiding financial services organizations through the complexities of regulatory transformations. You will play a pivotal role in helping clients stay ahead of regulatory changes, particularly in trade and transaction reporting frameworks, by designing, leading, and delivering comprehensive solutions that ensure compliance and operational efficiency.

This is a perfect opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced consulting environment, enjoys working on high-impact regulatory programs, and is passionate about shaping the future of regulatory compliance within the financial services industry.

What You’ll Do

The opportunity is to join Capco’s growing Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation and Finance capability. The role will entail working across all types of financial institutions in the market to support them navigate and deliver against key market objectives with a focus on Trade & Transaction Reporting and associated market regulations.

The Types Of Projects We Cover Are

• Supporting clients with regulatory change across impact assessments, implementation support, remediation, control framework & architecture assessments and regtech implementation focused on trade & transaction reporting (e.g. MiFID, EMIR, CSDR, SFTR, HKMA, MAS, CFTC etc)
• Compliance within regulatory obligations against tight deadlines
• Operating model reviews to assess positioning relative to market and cost optimisation initiatives
• Delivering on key business change initiatives

In order to support our clients, we need people who have a deep understanding of capital markets/investment banking coupled with strong change management experience and prior demonstrable success, either as a management consultant or within a change role in a financial services institution.

This role allows you to deliver as part of a long-term strategic partnership with our clients, whilst developing within a forward thinking and entrepreneurial business.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in the capital markets domain with front-to-back knowledge of organisations (e.g., Front Office, Middle Office, Treasury, Risk – Operational/Market/Credit, Operations – including Cash & Collateral Management/Clearing & Settlement, Technology, Finance, and Compliance) and the ability to face off to key stakeholders with strong credibility.
• Experience in delivery trade & transaction reporting changes (e.g. MiFID, EMIR, CSDR, SFTR, HKMA, MAS, CFTC etc)
• Key areas of product knowledge to include OTC derivatives, Fixed Income and Equities.
• An understanding of the key market, global and regulatory drivers shaping the industry and an ability to articulate these by way of opportunities for consulting firms to support the industry.
• Experience gained in either consulting or industry with exposure to shaping and delivering significant programmes. Key areas of interest include regulatory-driven change, operating model analysis and design to support functional consolidation and integration, architecture simplification, business divestment and sourcing, new product/market strategies.
• Demonstrable expertise in building and leveraging relationships to support growth. Build and maintain strong client relationships within the sector, leveraging proven industry content and delivery capability.
• Solution development, showing a clear ability as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to enhance existing propositions, and develop new ones.
• People management, building a team of consultants with the right mix of grades, skills and experience to support client opportunities and projected growth.
• Develop and convert a pipeline of opportunities.
• Fulfil a key role in account and proposition development within Market Domains and Key Client Accounts, assisting senior management to increase revenue.
• Formulate propositions and solutions that meet client requirements in addition to managing and directing pursuit activity.
• Strong bid management abilities, with a proven ability to mentor and train Consultants.
• Drive thought leadership and client campaigns

Why Join Capco

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects addressing our clients biggest challenges.

We Offer

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients
• and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen
• existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners
• and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture

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