Director, Financial Services - Governance, Risk & Compliance

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About Baringa&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.</p> <p>The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.</p> <p>Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.</p> <p>Certified as a&nbsp;<em>Great Place to Work </em>around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the <em>Financial Times </em>in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by <em>Forbes </em>for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.</p></div><h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 53, 142);">Our Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance practice are looking for a Director with a strong commercial track record to join the team.&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>Baringa is building the world's most trusted consulting firm. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector. We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia and bring deep industry expertise enabled by advanced technology to help clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty.</p> <p>Our Financial Services GR&amp;C practice helps leading banking and insurance clients navigate an increasingly complex risk and regulatory environment to proactively manage and future-proof risk and compliance functions so they are streamlined, scalable and fit for the future. We support clients across economic crime, conduct &amp; compliance, operational risk &amp; resilience, data, digital &amp; cyber risk, treasury &amp; liquidity risk and climate risk &amp; sustainability. All underpinned by our AI, data and technology capability.</p> <p>As the market continues to evolve, we are investing in our Governance, Risk &amp; Compliance capability and are seeking a Director with a strong commercial track record to help shape the next phase of growth.</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><strong>What you will be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Lead large-scale risk, regulation and compliance transformation programmes for leading Financial Services organisations.</li> <li>Advise Boards, Board Risk Committees, Executive Committees and senior risk leaders on risk strategy, governance, controls and operating model effectiveness.</li> <li>Help clients design and implement enterprise-wide risk frameworks, governance structures and control environments</li> <li>You will lead complex engagements across operational risk, compliance, conduct risk, regulatory change and broader non-financial risk agendas, or within financial risk – specifically treasury and liquidity</li> <li>Identify and originate new opportunities within existing and prospective client accounts, supporting the continued growth of the practice.</li> <li>Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across UK Financial Services organisat

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