Risk & Regulation – Consultant Analyst

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life. 

Job Description

• Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.
• We operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into a client site or office, at least 2-3 days per week.
• This role will be aligned to our London Victoria office.

Our Risk & Regulation team helps senior risk leaders face their biggest challenges. We work across banking, insurance and wealth and asset management to support firms to enhance their approach to risk management with a particular focus on non-financial risk. You will work alongside industry leaders in the Risk & Regulation advisory space. Our team comprises a diverse group of experts with extensive experience across the broad spectrum of Risk Management. This includes professionals with backgrounds as former regulators, members of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), and leaders from Retail Banks, Building Societies, Investment Banks, Insurance Firms, Payment Firms, and Industry Bodies, as well as those with significant consultancy expertise.

 What we offer:

• The opportunity to contribute meaningfully to projects straight away, facing off directly to senior leaders within PA and Senior Clients externally.
• The ability to shape your own career, developing your own areas of focus aligned to our strategic campaigns.
• The opportunity to work on exciting, meaningful engagements that help deliver better outcomes for firms and their customers (Conduct Risk, Financial Crime, Governance, Risk Transformation etc.)
• Within our team, you’ll have the chance to work at the forefront of the industry, from shaping regulatory policy to helping firms integrate AI into their risk management strategies. We pride ourselves on making a genuine difference for our clients and their customers, delivering impactful and meaningful outcomes.
• We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.
• We offer excellent training and career development opportunities designed to take your skills to the next level. With structured formal training, a wide range of optional courses to tailor your learning journey, and full support for gaining external certifications, you’ll have everything you need to grow and excel in your career.

Qualifications

What you will bring:

• At least 2 years’ experience working in financial services (preferably in a risk, compliance or transformation role).
• Experience of working directly with stakeholders outside of your team to achieve objectives.
• A desire to become an expert in risk and regulation and enthusiasm to apply this to delivery and transformational projects.

• You may also have:

• An understanding of how change is delivered in a regulatory context
• Experience of coordinating activities across multiple teams, including across the three lines of defence
• Knowledge of core transformation steps and tools used in transformation (risk logs, project status reports, project planning)
• Candidates who have completed a graduate rotation scheme in Banking, Insurance or Financial Services Consulting are particularly encouraged to apply.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family 
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com