Management Consultant - Non-Financial / Operational Risk
Non-Financial Risk (Enterprise Risk) Consultant – All Levels
Location: London (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime | Type: Permanent
Drive impactful change across enterprise risk, market abuse, and surveillance frameworks
The Role
Capco is looking for Management Consultants with expertise in Non-Financial Risk to join our growing Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime (FRRF) capability. You'll work on a variety of projects for leading financial institutions, delivering risk transformation and advisory services across enterprise and operational risk. Acting as a trusted advisor, you'll help shape the future of risk frameworks, controls, governance, and surveillance capabilities. You'll also embrace AI-enabled ways of working, using approved AI tools to enhance analysis, improve delivery efficiency, and support better decision-making while applying appropriate human judgement and responsible AI practices.
What You'll Do
- Support enterprise and operational risk transformation projects, leveraging AI-enabled analysis where appropriate to improve delivery, insight, and efficiency.
- Document, assess, and enhance risk processes and controls across the first and second lines of defence, identifying opportunities for automation and AI-enabled workflow improvements.
- Contribute to market abuse and trade surveillance initiatives by reviewing controls, detection scenarios, and the responsible application of AI to improve surveillance effectiveness and reduce false positives.
- Support AI model tuning and optimisation activities within surveillance environments, ensuring appropriate governance, validation, auditability, and human oversight.
- Engage stakeholders across business, technology, compliance, and risk functions to deliver collaborative, data-driven transformation initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in enterprise or operational risk, ideally within financial services.
- Strong understanding of market abuse regulation and trade surveillance frameworks.
- Awareness or practical experience of AI and machine learning applications within risk or surveillance environments, including model tuning concepts and responsible AI practices.
- Experience documenting end-to-end processes, identifying risk and control gaps, and using approved AI tools to support analysis where appropriate.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly across business and technology teams.
Bonus Points For
- Experience in control testing, risk assurance, or remediation.
- Exposure to surveillance platforms such as NICE Actimize, Nasdaq SMARTS, or similar technologies.
- Experience applying AI-enabled analytics, automation, or model optimisation within enterprise risk or surveillance environments.
- Ability to facilitate workshops and build strong stakeholder engagement.
- Previous consulting experience within a risk-focused role or experience improving enterprise risk frameworks and control effectiveness.
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact transformation programmes for Tier 1 financial institutions.
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
- Access continuous learning, industry certifications, and structured career development.
- Help shape the future of enterprise risk, market surveillance, and operational resilience.
- Be part of a team delivering meaningful change across financial services.
Benefits
- Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
- Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family Care: Eight complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday Flexibility: Five weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
- Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually. Take your pick—workshops, certifications, e-learning—your growth, your way. Business Coach assigned from Day One to help accelerate your development.