Managing Principal - Operational Resilience

About the Team: 

As a member of the Finance, Risk, and Compliance (“FRC”) group at Capco you will play a lead role delivering projects, ranging from short-term strategic assessments to large scale change initiatives, for leading clients across financial services.  

Capco FRC is a global team that prides itself on our industry-leading expertise from strategy through implementation within risk management and regulatory advisory. Our team combines expert consulting skills and deep product and functional knowledge across all areas of the front office, operations, technology, risk, finance and compliance. 

About the Job: 

As a Managing Principal – Operational Resilience, you will work alongside industry experts as part of FRC in a fast-paced team setting. This role is based in New York and requires ability to work from client and/or Capco offices. 

What You’ll Get to Do:  

• Deliver risk management and/or regulatory initiatives for our commercial and retail banking clients, with particular emphasis on establishing or expanding operational resilience programs 
• Deploy deep subject matter expertise in operational resilience related regulations / guidance (e.g., DORA, OCC, CFTC, PRA, BCBS,  DFS 500, etc.) 
• Manage projects and teams of consultants, taking oversight of delivery work and ensuring client satisfaction  
• Own relationships and work directly with client program sponsors to set the goals of the initiative as well as plans to ensure the program is successful 
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to provide strategic guidance and improve our clients’ risk management and regulatory processes 
• Cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients; identify incremental sales opportunities while managing project delivery 
• Develop thought leadership content, own client proposals, and drive client discussions 
• Engage with practice leadership in regular client and service group planning discussions 
• Provide insightful career advice and feedback for team members to empower their careers 

What You’ll Bring with You: 

• 10+ years of risk management and/or regulatory experience within the financial services sector, minimum of 3 years within financial services management consulting 
• Experience hitting individual sales targets highly preferred  
• Extensive knowledge of regulatory topics pertaining to commercial and retail banks, particularly rules/guidance from the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC 
• Robust knowledge of banking products and services and the risk management methodologies and processes that support them  
• Experience standing up or managing risk programs including BIA, BCM, or Operational Risk Management  
• Confident self-stater who can work under pressure, using your own initiative to meet deadlines and see tasks through to completion 
• Experience reporting risk initiative progress and summaries to executive audiences at the enterprise or service level  
• Familiarity with risk related industry best practices and vendor / tooling landscape  
• Excellent communicator and influencer, ability to build relationships at all levels from a range of departments and business areas 
• Highly organized, able to drive projects and simultaneously prioritize individual tasks  
• Ability to drive completion of project deliverables that exceed client expectations 
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics or a related field 

Why Capco? 

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services.  We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change.  As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation. 

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering. 

Capco is a growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset and have minimal bureaucracy. We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.  

Ready to take the Next Step? 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.  This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.  

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