Specialist, Risk Advisory (Risk & Regulation)

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health & wellbeing benefits

Parental leave 26 weeks

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie Group is seeking a Specialist in Risk Advisory to deliver client-facing engagements and grow governance, risk, and compliance consulting offerings in the UK. You will support Partners and Directors, identify business development opportunities, and own proposals.

In a typical week you will manage projects across regulatory risk, conduct, prudential and compliance themes, collaborating with Partners, Directors, Executives, and the broader team to deliver high-quality work and

Qualifications

• 1–4 years of specialised risk, compliance, and/or regulatory experience, ideally within a consulting environment.
• Collaborative and adaptable approach to a fast-paced, evolving environment, and a proactive, thoughtful, and humble attitude.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality work for clients and stakeholders on time, with an innovative approach to non-financial risk management, compliance assessments, strategies, and controls.
• A considered, collaborative approach to finding solutions to problems related to risk management in a commercial, client-focused way.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail, and experience writing business documents including reports, letters, and proposals.

Responsibilities

• Build frameworks and models to solve clients' risk problems.
• Review client materials, conduct research, and analyse information and data.
• Own the creation of client artefacts, seeking input from Partners, Directors, and Executives—including agendas, project status update decks, reports, workshop materials, and presentations.
• Partner with clients to understand and address strategic and risk management gaps, and support them in uplifting their compliance and risk management capabilities.
• Operationalise strategic and risk advice to help clients implement, measure, monitor, and evaluate programs and projects, and nurture trusted client relationships, leading client meetings when required.

Skills

Client-facing

Risk management

Regulatory knowledge

Proposal development

Job description

Description

Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand and is designed to provide risk consulting expertise that complements Ashurst Perkins Coie's core legal services.

We provide the opportunity to work with an expertise-led team that has been consistently growing since its inception, and is dedicated to collaboration, diversity, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around a flat, collaborative structure that offers everyone the opportunity to work closely with Directors, Partners and clients on engagements. This means you have on the job training with your leaders, direct involvement with business development, clear recognition for your performance, and greater career opportunities.

The Opportunity

As a result of continued growth our Risk and Regulation team is looking to hire a Specialist (equivalent to a Manager in Big4 consulting) to deliver client-facing advisory engagements and help grow our governance, risk management and compliance consulting offerings in the UK.

As a Specialist, you will also support Partners, Directors and Executives to identify and execute business development activities to build the Risk Advisory brand, including owning the creation of proposals.

Across a regular week as a Specialist, you can expect to project manage and deliver a variety of innovative, high-quality work across regulatory risk, conduct, prudential, and compliance themes, in collaboration with Partners, Directors, Executives, and the broader team, including to:

• Build frameworks and models to solve clients' risk problems.
• Review client materials, conduct research, and analyse information and data.
• Own the creation of client artefacts, seeking input from Partners, Directors, and Executives—including agendas, project status update decks, reports, workshop materials, and presentations.
• Partner with clients to understand and address strategic and risk management gaps, and support them in uplifting their compliance and risk management capabilities.
• Operationalise strategic and risk advice to help clients implement, measure, monitor, and evaluate programs and projects, and nurture trusted, genuine client relationships, leading client meetings when required.

Please review the job description attached to the role on our careers page for more detail on the role and what we can offer you: https://www.ashurstperkinscoie.com/en/careers/

We are interested in hearing from you if you have:

• 1-4 years of specialised risk, compliance, and/or regulatory experience, ideally within a consulting environment, and are comfortable with common tools, frameworks, and standards in this space.
• A collaborative and adaptable approach to a fast-paced, evolving environment, and a proactive, thoughtful, and humble attitude that embraces alternate viewpoints.
• Proven experience delivering high-quality work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines, with an innovative approach to non-financial risk management and compliance assessments, strategies, and controls.
• A considered, collaborative approach to finding solutions to problems related to risk management, in a commercial and client-focused way.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail, and experience writing business documents including reports, letters, and proposals.

What makes Risk Advisory a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst Perkins Coie.

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: [e-mail] for a confidential conversation.