Business Risk Consultant
Department: Business Risk
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote - UK
Reporting To: Head of Discretionary Investment
Description
We’re looking for an experienced Business Risk Consultant to join a high-performing compliance consultancy team supporting investment management and financial advice across the UK.
Role Overview
This is a client-facing, advisory role where you’ll partner with firms to assess and strengthen their regulatory frameworks—helping them balance commercial success with robust compliance.
Why Apply?
- You’ll have a varied portfolio of clients across both discretionary investment management and financial advice firms
- You’ll expand your regulatory knowledge
- You’ll have the opportunity to engage with the Regulator and have exposure to more complex regulatory work
What you’ll do
- Take primary responsibility for managing client queries sent to the Discretionary Investment Management (DIM) team with support from the rest of the team.
- Undertake business risk assessments either remotely from home or at the client’s premises, or any other locations to be agreed.
- Prepare detailed and personalised written reports, and other appropriate documentation as appropriate.
- Manage a workload which includes arranging business risk assessments and other client related activity to clients and ensuring sufficient time is set aside for preparing visit outputs and dealing with client queries.
- Promote threesixty and the services provided in a positive manner.
- Be willing to undertake project work as required.
- Maintain up to date and accurate knowledge in all regulatory and legislative areas which might realistically be of interest to clients.
What you’ll need to succeed
- 5 years successful experience delivering consultancy services to the investment management and intermediary community.
- Level 4 Diploma in Financial Services with the motivation to achieve Level 6 and other risk-related qualifications (fully supported by the business).
- Experience of working with vertically integrated firms, which includes knowledge of the regulatory requirements which apply to MIFIDPRU firms including both prudential and conduct of business requirements.
- A good understanding of vertically integrated firm’s business strategies.
- Ability to manage and deliver a varied and busy workload.
- Detailed knowledge of the regulatory framework.
- Understanding of how investment management and financial advice firms operate.
- Understanding of the need to blend commercial and regulatory obligations.
Desirable requirements
- Ideally, a Level 6 advanced level Financial Services qualification
- Experience in dealing/liaising with Regulators.
- Experience of working for the Regulator
Your approach to work
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Able to manage a varied workload with a high degree of autonomy, while working collaboratively as part of a wider team
- Able to work independently as well as part of a team
- Professional and credible approach with clients based on experience, qualifications and knowledge
Important to know
- This is a remote-working, field based role
- Full driving licence required
- Able to undertake travel and occasional overnight stays.
Right to Work
Applicants must already hold a legal right to work in the UK without time restrictions and without the need for future sponsorship. We are unable to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.
