Consultant - Capital Markets Regulatory Initiatives

About the Team:

As a member of the Finance, Risk, and Compliance (“FRC”) group at Capco you will play a lead role delivering projects, ranging from short-term strategic assessments to large scale change initiatives, for leading clients across financial services.

Capco FRC is a global team that prides itself on our industry-leading expertise from strategy through implementation within risk management and regulatory advisory. Our team combines expert consulting skills and deep product and functional knowledge across all areas of the front office, operations, technology, risk, finance and compliance.

About the Job:

As a Senior Consultant – Capital Markets Regulatory Initiatives, you will work alongside industry experts within FRC and our Capital Markets group in a fast-paced team setting. This role is based in New York at requires ability to work from client and/or Capco offices.

What You’ll Get to Do:

• Deliver regulatory initiatives for the capital markets divisions of our banking clients; current examples include SEC rules for US treasury central clearing, securities lending transparency (SEC 10c-1), and securitization conflicts of interest (SEC 192)
• Work directly with client program sponsors to set the goals of the initiative as well as plans to ensure the program is successful
• Contribute to planning and development of regulatory projects; collaborating with cross functional teams to ensure successful completion within deadlines
• Develop and execute regular status reporting and adhoc senior management presentations for program sponsors, steering committees and working groups
• Produce insights, analyses, and recommendations to provide strategic guidance, improve client performance, and drive deeper understanding of client issues
• Build new solutions, toolkits, best practice documents, and consulting approaches that can be applied across Capco’s Finance, Risk, and Compliance practice
• Identify incremental sales opportunities while managing project delivery
• Develop thought leadership content, take a leadership role in proposal responses, and participate in client pitches

What You’ll Bring with You:

• 5+ years of risk management and/regulatory experience within capital markets; experience working within financial services consulting preferred
• Solid understanding of financial markets and various capital markets products; specific experience with securitized products, securities lending, and/or US treasury trading/financing products preferred
• Knowledge of regulatory topics pertaining to capital markets, particularly SEC, CFTC, and FINRA rules
• Self-stater who can work under pressure, using your own initiative to meet deadlines and see tasks through to completion
• Able to operate independently and use sound judgement when in interacting with senior risk clients
• Excellent communicator and influencer, ability to build relationships at all levels from a range of departments and business areas
• Highly organized, able to drive projects and simultaneously prioritize individual tasks
• Ability to drive completion of project deliverables that exceed client expectations
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field

Why Capco? 

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services. We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change. As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation. 

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering. 

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset, and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business. We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.  

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.  

Ready to take the Next Step ?

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.

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