Business Consultant, Risk and Compliance

The role

You will lead client workstreams from discovery through implementation and serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders. Work focuses on business acceptance and management of regulatory risk within law firms through process transformation, technology implementation, and data strategy.

What you will do

• Lead client workstreams from discovery through implementation
• Serve as a primary day-to-day client contact
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable recommendations
• Contribute to the development and management of consulting plans, timelines, and deliverables
• Analyze current-state law, processes, systems, and data to identify improvement opportunities
• Guide solution configuration, data migration planning, testing, and change-management
• Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations
• Create and present executive-ready materials
• Partner with sales and engagement leadership on scoping and estimates
• Contribute to Harbor's consulting methodology and quality standards

Required qualifications

• Worked within a law firm or other regulated professional service firm, or for a management consultancy providing advice to professional services firms
• Demonstrated experience leading substantial workstreams or complex projects in a client-facing environment focused on business process optimization
• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, finance, or a related field
• Ability to move from ambiguous business challenges to structured, actionable solutions
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations, facilitating workshops, and communicating with executives and technical teams
• Advanced analytical skills
• Strong proficiency with Excel, presentation tools, and business systems or data platforms
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work
• Collaborative, self-directed working style
• Experience partnering with cross-functional and globally distributed teams

Nice to have

• Experience in professional services, legal, financial services, or another complex, regulated corporate environment
• Experience leading enterprise software, workflow, data migration and business-process transformation engagements
• Familiarity with SaaS applications, integrations and APIs, business intelligence tools, or data-quality practices
• Master's degree
• Consulting, project-management, or process-improvement certification

About the company

Harbor is a provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Their globally integrated team of 900+ specialists works with law firms, corporations, and law departments.