Senior AVP, Finance & Risk Advisory in London

Senior AVP, Finance & Risk Advisory in London

London Full-Time On-site
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Tthis is a hybrid role in London (3 days per week in the office.)

Summary of the role:

We are seeking a highly accomplished consulting leader to join our UK & EMEA Finance & Risk Advisory Consulting (FRAC) practice as a Senior Assistant Vice President. This is a market-facing leadership role responsible for driving growth across the UK and EMEA region. The successful candidate will serve as a trustedadvisor to senior client executives, lead business development and strategic advisory engagements, and play a key role in shaping the future direction of the practice.

The individual will bring deep expertise across one or more FRAC domains, combined with strong commercial acumen, industrycredibility, and a proven abilityto build high-performing teams and client relationships.

As part of your duties, you will be responsible for:

Business Development &Market Growth

  • Build and maintain a strong networkof client executives, industry contacts, alliancepartners, and influencers.
  • Originate, qualify, and convert consulting opportunities across new and existing clients, developing accountgrowth strategies in partnership with sector leadersand account teams.
  • Contribute directly to annualrevenue targets, pipelinegeneration, and practicegrowth objectives.
  • Lead proposal development, client presentations, solutiondesign workshops, and commercial negotiations.
  • Represent the practicein industry events,roundtables, webinars, and client forums.

Client Advisory & Consulting Leadership

  • Actas a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior businessstakeholders across Finance,Risk, Internal Audit, Compliance, Procurement, CISO, Data & AI, and other related domains.
  • Lead client engagements spanning regulatory compliance, process transformation, controls assurance, risk management, and AI governance, leveraging thought leadership, data-driven insights, and AI-enabled solutions to deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Serve as a key member of the UK & EMEA FRAC leadership team, helping shape practice strategy, sector-focused propositions, go-to-market initiatives, growth plans, and AI-enabled consulting offerings.
  • Drive practice growth and profitability throughrevenue generation, pipelinemanagement, commercial oversight, resource planning, forecasting, and P&L accountability.
  • Lead, mentor, and developconsulting teams acrossgeographies, including management of 3-4 direct reports and broader project teams.
  • Drive talent acquisition, workforce planning, staffing, succession planning, and team development to support practice growth.
  • Foster a high-performance culturethrough coaching, collaboration, innovation, and continuous professional development.

Thought Leadership & Market Presence

  • Create and promote thought leadership on emerging regulatory, risk, technology, and business trends throughpublications, webinars, executivebriefings, and industryforums.
  • Enhance the firm's marketvisibility, reputation, and credibility across key sectorsand target markets.

Qualifications and experience we consider to be essential for the role:

  • 10+years of consulting, advisory, risk, audit,compliance, finance, procurement, cyber security, or transformation experience.
  • Proven experience withina Big Four firm, globalconsulting organisation, or similar professional services environment.
  • Strong track record of business development, revenue generation, and management of senior client and executive stakeholder relationships.
  • Demonstrated experience selling and leading consulting engagements, including proposal development, commercial negotiations, and executive-level stakeholder management.
  • Demonstrated leadership of complexconsulting engagements, multi-disciplinary teams, and geographically distributed delivery models.
  • Commercially astute, with experience in budgeting, forecasting, pipeline management, and P&L accountability
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or Master'sdegree in Finance,Business, Risk Management, Technology, or a related field preferred.
  • Relevant professional certifications highlydesirable, including CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CIA, IRMCert, AIGP, TAISE, CIPP/E, CIPT, CPSM, CPA, CA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent.

Skills and Personalattributes we would like to have:

  • Significant expertise across multiple FRAC domains, including Regulatory Compliance, Operational Risk & Resilience, Internal Audit & Assurance, Finance Advisory & Transformation, Procurement & Third-Party Risk Management, Cyber Security & Technology Risk, and Data/AI Governance & Responsible AI.
  • Strong understanding of accounting and finance principles, internal controls, audit methodologies, risk management frameworks, and corporate governance practices.
  • Experience serving clients across multiple regulated industries is highly desirable. Strong knowledge of at least two of the following sectors is desired: Insurance, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Banking& Financial Services,Utilities, Energy & Infrastructure, Retail,and Travel, Transportation & Logistics.

Required Skills

finance advisory risk advisory business development client advisory regulatory compliance process transformation

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