Prudential Risk Managing Consultant

RSM UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is looking for a dedicated professional to join its Prudential Team within Risk Assurance. You will provide regulatory advice to financial services clients, supporting them in managing risk and meeting regulatory requirements. Your role will involve business development, overseeing client projects, and ensuring quality delivery. We're seeking an ambitious individual with strong communication skills and a degree in finance or a related field. A flexible working environment and various benefits await you.

Benefits

Study Support

Hybrid working

27 days holiday

Financial wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Ambitious individual keen to progress in a growing team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in a client-facing environment.
• Strong communication and organisational skills.
• Familiarity with tender processes and proposition design.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of client projects.
• Conduct client interviews and process walk-throughs.
• Quality assurance review of client project work.
• Oversee Financial Conduct Authority Section 166 engagements.

Skills

Conduct risk

Financial crime

Payment services

Prudential regulation

Governance

Compliance monitoring

Regulatory due diligence

Training delivery

Target Operating Model design

Regulatory gap analysis

Education

Degree level education

ACA/ACCA or equivalent

Job description

Make an Impact at RSM UK

At RSM, our consulting team brings together diverse advisory experts to deliver our six core solutions: business transformation, forensic, deal services, restructuring, finance function support, and risk and governance. Our solutions are designed to address the unique needs, challenges, and opportunities our clients face as they strive to achieve their aspirations and organisational goals. Whether it’s supporting global expansion, developing acquisition strategies, facilitating private equity investments, or collaborating with boards to manage risk and governance, our consulting experts work as one cohesive team. We prioritise simplicity, providing data‑driven insights, value‑added assurance, and high‑quality execution to empower our clients in building sustainable, future‑fit businesses. It’s an exciting time to join our consulting team, as we embark on ambitious growth plans that promise to create diverse career opportunities. We are committed to enhancing our six solutions, expanding and developing our team of expert consultants, embracing a digital‑first approach, strengthening our global presence, and building strong client relationships.

Prudential Team within Risk Assurance – Financial Services

This is an opportunity to join our Prudential Team within Risk Assurance, Financial Services. The Prudential Team specialises in providing prudential regulatory advice and guidance to clients within the financial services sector, supporting them to maintain adequate financial resources and manage risk in accordance with regulatory requirements and their commercial objectives. The team has a diverse client base, from niche challenger firms to long‑established financial institutions. The team offers services to clients in the UK and across a number of international jurisdictions.

You will make an impact by:

Demonstrating experience in:

• Conduct risk
• Financial crime
• Payment services
• Prudential regulation
• Governance, including SM & CR and effectiveness reviews
• Compliance monitoring
• Regulatory due diligence
• Training delivery
• Target Operating Model design
• Regulatory gap analysis

The role is for a dedicated professional who can help build the regulatory practice.

Business development

Assisting with:

• Strategic initiatives
• Business development activities
• Developing propositions and responding to tenders
• Tender/pitch presentations
• Producing materials for seminars/events on hot topics

Delivery

Overseeing and delivering client work which will include:

• Managing delivery of client projects
• Effective stakeholder engagement and relationship management
• Conducting structured document reviews and gap analysis against regulatory requirements and industry practice
• Structuring and conducting client interviews and process walk‑throughs
• Developing solutions and drafting reports and detailed recommendations
• Quality assurance review of work undertaken on client projects
• Approval of work in line with professional standards

The role holder will also assist in the delivery of Financial Conduct Authority Section 166 Skilled Persons engagements, including managing on‑site teams, conducting interviews and testing and drafting the skilled person report.

What we are looking for:

• Ambitious and driven individual, keen to progress their career in a growing team
• Individual who can work in a fast‑paced environment
• Strong attention to detail
• Willingness to learn and develop own knowledge
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written
• Ability to problem solve and develop pragmatic solutions
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong organisational skills
• Experience of working in a client facing environment and managing relationships
• Experience of business development, for example familiarity with tender processes and proposition design
• Knowledge of the financial services market and the regulatory institutions
• Degree level education and ideally ACA/ACCA or equivalent
• Driven, motivated, dedicated and resilient
• Outstanding interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• High standard of written and verbal communication
• Experience of working in a regulatory practice

What we can offer you:

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That’s why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have a fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

• Study Support
• Hybrid and flexible working
• 27 days holiday with the option of purchasing additional days
• Lifestyle, health, and wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP
• Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our in‑house talent development team

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client’s needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That’s why we’re working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion.