Senior Consultant / Principal Consultant - Capital Markets

The role

The candidate will support business transformation, regulatory change, and technology implementation initiatives across capital markets. They will work with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external partners to improve operational efficiency and risk management.

What you will do

• Demonstrate understanding of capital markets products, processes, and operating models.
• Understand the trade lifecycle including execution, clearing, settlement, and collateral management.
• Engage with business stakeholders to understand needs and operational challenges.
• Translate business needs into requirements documents, functional specifications, and user stories.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps.
• Drive assigned workstreams from requirements gathering to post-go-live support.
• Support Agile delivery practices including sprint planning and backlog refinement.
• Support regulatory and market-driven transformation initiatives.
• Develop test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
• Build relationships with business users, senior stakeholders, and technology teams.

Required qualifications

• 6–8 years of experience in capital markets, investment banking, financial services consulting, or a related domain.
• Strong understanding of capital markets products, trade lifecycle, and front-to-back operating models.
• Experience in business analysis, functional consulting, process improvement, or transformation delivery.
• Proven ability to gather, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Experience working with business and technology stakeholders on complex projects.
• Familiarity with project delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in preparing BRDs, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, and test documentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with capital markets platforms, trading systems, clearing and settlement systems, or post-trade solutions.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks applicable to the target market and asset class.
• Familiarity with SQL, data analysis, Excel, and reporting tools.
• Exposure to APIs, system integrations, data mapping, and interface specifications.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Visio, or equivalent project delivery platforms.
• Experience working in a consulting environment or delivering client-facing transformation engagements.

About the company

capco is seeking an experienced Capital Markets Consultant.