Senior Risk Consultant Financial Services

Overview

Senior Consultant Business Consulting | Risk & Compliance | United States - New York

Responsibilities will be determined based on role, level, and specific business or client needs. As part of the IC family, individuals may be expected to take on some or additional responsibilities listed below.

• End-to-end GRC delivery:
  Own end-to-end delivery of GRC engagements across banks, financial institutions, payments, and card issuers—from current-state assessment through target operating model, roadmap, and implementing the change
• Program leadership:
  Lead multi-workstream initiatives across operational risk, compliance, third‑party risk, data and model risk, and business resilience
• Risk & control execution:
  Drive risk and control frameworks including policy standardization, RCSA, KRI/KCI design, issue management, and continuous monitoring
• GRC solutioning:
  Translate regulatory and business requirements into scalable process, data, and technology solutions using GRC platforms and cloud-native controls

• Work on business consulting engagements as part of a cross-cultural team across regions; align product vision and strategy with business objectives and stakeholder needs
• Take up a range of roles in process/functional consulting, tech strategy, program/change management and agile product ownership (roadmap, backlog, release planning)
• Analyze problems and craft solutions; translate strategic objectives into clear user stories and acceptance criteria, prioritized by value, urgency and feasibility
• Ability to create target operating models, process designs, data models, and governance structures; comfortable with policy/standard/control design and mapping
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and executive storytelling; deliver concise updates on progress, risks, and trade-offs; influence decision-making
• Lead workshops to collaborate with client stakeholders, elicit requirements, resolve ambiguities, align priorities, and drive UAT readiness and user enablement
• Lead / contribute to sales pursuits, consulting offerings and internal initiatives; champion data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
• Participate in Firm building events and the consultant referral programs; responsibly leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate analysis, documentation, and testing

• 10+ years total experience in product management/business analysis within financial services, with hands-on GRC delivery (consulting preferred) and a proven agile track record delivering complex platforms
• 5+ years working on regulatory stress testing and loss forecasting (e.g., CCAR/DFAST/CECL) in production environments
• Strong knowledge of retail credit products (e.g., credit cards, mortgages) and risk drivers; familiarity with PD/LGD/EAD methodologies
• Experience with AI-assisted tools and automation to accelerate analysis, documentation, testing, and delivery
• Proficiency with analytics/visualization (Power BI, Tableau); exposure to risk management and data warehousing platforms
• Strong command of regulatory and control frameworks relevant to US financial institutions: NIST CSF/800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, SOX 404, GLBA, NYDFS 500, FFIEC, PCI DSS, and SWIFT CSCF; understanding of model risk management and data governance
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management; ability to articulate complex concepts, influence cross-functional teams, and drive consensus
• Willingness to travel to different locations based on project requirements
• Bachelor’s in finance/economics/computer science/engineering or related quantitative field;
  Master’s/MBA preferred
• Certification in Financial and Risk Domain from globally accredited bodies preferred
• Program Management and Product Owner certifications preferred