Risk & Compliance Consultant — AI & Operations

Sia; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sia, a global management consulting group, seeks a Risk & Compliance Consultant with AI and operations focus. This role combines risk assessment, process design, and AI-enabled improvements for clients in regulated environments.

You’ll lead engagements, work onsite and remotely, and mentor teammates across technology and fintech domains. The position targets consultants at Consultant and Senior Consultant levels, with opportunities to grow responsibilities aligned to your experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Business Management, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 2-7 years of client-facing management consulting experience, preferably within technology or fintech environments.
• Experience supporting or delivering risk, compliance, or regulatory-related initiatives.
• Practical experience with AI adoption, workflow automation, or identifying AI use cases within a business or compliance.

Responsibilities

• Risk & Compliance Process Design: Map and diagnose compliance and operational processes end to end to pinpoint where they break down or create risk.
• Lead the design and implementation of improved frameworks, systems, and processes, including defining data requirements and analyzing performance trends across operational, logical, and system workflows.
• AI Opportunity Identification: Evaluate compliance and operational processes to identify practical AI and automation use cases, from workflow automation to agentic AI.
• Build the business case for where these use cases will actually reduce risk or improve efficiency.
• Client Delivery & Execution: Lead client engagements, both onsite and remotely, delivering high-quality workstreams and producing complex, client-ready deliverables.
• Project & Workstream Management: Manage timelines, prioritize tasks, and coordinate activities across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Build strong client relationships and confidently present insights, recommendations, and AI-enabled process improvements to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Business Analysis & Problem Solving: Analyze client challenges using both quantitative and qualitative approaches to develop structured, actionable solutions.
• Collaborate with and mentor team members on tools, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project).
• Documentation & Knowledge Management: Maintain clear and organized project documentation to ensure transparency, continuity, and knowledge sharing.
• Thought Leadership & Practice Development: Drive thought leadership by shaping internal initiatives, sharing knowledge, and building firm capabilities around AI in risk and compliance.
• Business Development Support: Shape proposal development, identify new opportunities, and drive broader business development efforts.

Skills

Client-facing consulting

AI awareness

Data-driven analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Finance/Business/Stats

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

MS Project

Job description

Risk & Compliance Consultant — AI & Operations

• Full-time

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We're optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.

Sia's Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.

A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. The Sia Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions.

Workplace

Sia values in-person collaboration. This position is based in our San Francisco and New York City offices. Consultants are expected to be on site at least three days per week, whether at a client site or at the Sia office or an approved coworking location. When an engagement requires fewer than three days at the client site, consultants are expected to work from the Sia office for the remaining days. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance of the Sia office.

Join our consulting team to help clients strengthen risk, compliance, and operational capabilities. We are hiring at both the Consultant and Senior Consultant levels, with opportunities to take on responsibilities aligned with your experience and expertise. In this role, you will assess end-to-end processes, identify control gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities, and help design practical solutions that improve effectiveness, efficiency, and scalability. Where appropriate, you will evaluate how automation and AI can support these outcomes responsibly.

You'll operate in a fast-paced, client-facing environment, balancing independent ownership with strong collaboration across teams. This role is ideal for people with experience in technology and/or fintech environments, particularly within regulated or compliance-driven contexts, who also bring a genuine interest in where AI can realistically improve how compliance work gets done.

What You'll Do

Risk & Compliance Process Design

Map and diagnose compliance and operational processes end to end to pinpoint where they break down or create risk

Lead the design and implementation of improved frameworks, systems, and processes, including defining data requirements and analyzing performance trends across operational, logical, and system workflows

AI Opportunity Identification

Evaluate compliance and operational processes to identify practical AI and automation use cases, from workflow automation to agentic AI

Build the business case for where these use cases will actually reduce risk or improve efficiency

Client Delivery & Execution

Lead client engagements, both onsite and remotely, delivering high-quality workstreams and producing complex, client-ready deliverables

Project & Workstream Management

Manage timelines, prioritize tasks, and coordinate activities across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

Build strong client relationships and confidently present insights, recommendations, and AI-enabled process improvements to stakeholders, including senior leadership

Business Analysis & Problem Solving

Analyze client challenges using both quantitative and qualitative approaches to develop structured, actionable solutions

Collaborate with and mentor team members on tools, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project)

Documentation & Knowledge Management

Maintain clear and organized project documentation to ensure transparency, continuity, and knowledge sharing

Thought Leadership & Practice Development

Drive thought leadership by shaping internal initiatives, sharing knowledge, and building firm capabilities around AI in risk and compliance

Business Development Support

Shape proposal development, identify new opportunities, and drive broader business development efforts

Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Business Management, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field

2-7 years of client-facing management consulting experience, preferably within technology or fintech environments

Experience supporting or delivering risk, compliance, or regulatory-related initiatives

Practical experience with AI adoption, workflow automation, or identifying AI use cases within a business or compliance