Management Consultant - Non-Financial / Operational Risk

Management Consultant - Non-Financial / Operational Risk

UK - Edinburgh

Non-Financial Risk (Enterprise Risk) Consultant - All Levels

Location: Glasgow & Edinburgh (Hybrid) Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime Type: Permanent

Drive impactful change across enterprise risk, market abuse, and surveillance frameworks

The Role

Capco is looking for Management Consultants with expertise in Non-Financial Risk to join our growing FRRF capability. You'll work on a variety of projects for leading financial institutions, delivering risk transformation and advisory services across enterprise and operational risk. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will help shape the future of risk frameworks, controls, governance, and surveillance capabilities.

What You'll Do

• Support risk transformation projects across enterprise and operational risk functions
• Document, assess, and enhance risk processes and controls across the first and second lines
• Contribute to market abuse and trade surveillance initiatives, including reviewing controls and detection scenarios
• Support the application of AI and model tuning techniques to improve surveillance effectiveness and reduce false positives
• Engage stakeholders across functions and levels to ensure collaborative delivery

What We're Looking For

• Experience in enterprise or operational risk, ideally within financial services
• Understanding of market abuse regulation and trade surveillance frameworks
• Awareness or experience of AI/ML applications in risk or surveillance environments, including model tuning concepts
• Practical knowledge of documenting end-to-end processes and identifying risk/control gaps
• Effective communicator with ability to engage stakeholders at all levels

Bonus Points For

• Experience in control testing, risk assurance, or remediation
• Exposure to surveillance tools (e.g., NICE Actimize, Nasdaq SMARTS, or similar)
• Ability to run workshops and drive stakeholder engagement
• Prior consultancy background in a risk-focused role
• Experience analysing frameworks to improve risk posture and control effectiveness

Why Join Capco

• Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions
• Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture
• Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications
• Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services
• Help shape the future of digital transformation across FS & Energy

Benefits

We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:

• Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
• Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in house first aiders.
• Family Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
• Holiday Flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
• Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually plus a dedicated Business Coach from Day One.

Capco does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.