Principal Consultant - (Senior Manager) Finance Transformation

The role

You will deliver finance transformation programmes including regulatory change, technology, and operating model transformation. You will partner with CFOs and senior finance leaders to implement strategies and optimize regulatory reporting.

What you will do

• Deliver finance transformation programmes spanning regulatory change, finance technology, process optimisation, and operating model transformation.
• Partner with CFOs, Treasurers, and C-suite stakeholders to implement finance strategies and strengthen controls.
• Optimise regulatory reporting including ICAAP, ILAAP, and Recovery and Resolution Planning.
• Define business requirements and manage end-to-end project delivery.
• Design and implement stress testing frameworks across credit, market, and liquidity risk.
• Collaborate with technology teams to embed digital, automation, and AI-enabled solutions into finance processes.

Required qualifications

• Experience delivering finance transformation programmes within financial services or management consulting.
• Strong understanding of finance operating models, accounting processes, regulatory change, and financial reporting.
• Experience with finance technology implementations, including ERP platforms, subledgers, automation, and optimisation solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience using approved AI tools to enhance analysis, productivity, and decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Professional finance qualification such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.
• Familiarity with Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, SOX, PRA, or EBA regulatory requirements.
• Experience delivering finance transformation programmes involving RPA, cloud technologies, AI-enabled solutions, or Generative AI within finance functions.
• Strong business analysis or project management credentials such as Agile, PMI, or PRINCE2.
• Experience supporting business development, proposition development, leadership initiatives, or client growth.

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. The company delivers transformation programmes for Tier 1 financial institutions.