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

The role

You will lead enterprise and operational risk transformation programmes for clients. You will advise senior stakeholders and oversee trade surveillance and market abuse initiatives using AI-enabled workflows.

What you will do

• Lead enterprise and operational risk transformation programmes.
• Strengthen client governance, operating models, controls, and risk frameworks.
• Oversee trade surveillance and market abuse initiatives.
• Advise senior stakeholders on regulatory expectations.
• Apply and oversee AI-enabled analytics and model tuning techniques.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Contribute to business development, proposition development, and capability growth.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise or operational risk transformation within financial services or management consulting.
• Strong knowledge of market abuse regulation, trade surveillance frameworks, operational risk, and wider financial crime risk management.
• Experience working with AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics within risk or surveillance environments, including model optimisation and responsible AI practices.
• Proven ability to lead complex transformation programmes and influence senior stakeholders across business, technology, compliance, and risk functions.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience leading surveillance transformation, control optimisation, or enterprise risk enhancement initiatives.
• Familiarity with surveillance platforms such as NICE Actimize, Nasdaq SMARTS, or similar technologies.
• Proven track record in business development, proposition development, and converting client opportunities into successful engagements.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing high-performing consulting teams.
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory environments.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension
• Health insurance
• Life insurance and critical illness cover
• Access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders
• Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave
• Paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement
• Eight complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care
• Five weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days
• Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually
• Business Coach assigned from Day One
• Online GP services

About the company

Capco is a consulting firm with a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial culture. They deliver transformation programmes for Tier 1 financial institutions.