Risk & Regulatory Analyst, Financial Services

Description

Analyst, Risk & Regulatory

Alvarez & Marsal

London

Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.7,500 staff and over 70 offices world-wide.  We offer a broad range of professional services including Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services. 

 At A&M, we believe in the power of diverse teaming to solve complex problems, create value and drive change for our clients. We are a global market leader, and we are differentiated as a firm by our professionals’ unique, varied backgrounds that allow us to serve our clients across the globe with both a practical and innovative approach.

A&M FSI works with leading Financial Services Institutions across Europe and our expertise revolves around four core areas: Performance Improvement, Loan Portfolio Advisory, Bank Restructuring and Regulatory Advisory. We work with clients across the financial services space and focus on banks, private equity investors, regulatory authorities, insurers, wealth and asset managers and other specialised Financial Services firms.

A&M’s professionals work on some of the world’s most high-profile cases in a rapidly transforming financial services landscape, striving for game-changing solutions that provide impactful long-term change. Working directly with our client’s management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address its problems and to maximise its value.

Through our FSI practice, we provide assistance to financial institutions that are underperforming or in need of a remediation, reorganisation or restructuring, helping clients navigate through complex and unique challenges that require thoughtful, tailored solutions. Drawing on extensive expertise in risk and regulatory, our team of senior ex-regulators and industry practitioners provide practical and credible strategies to adapt to a complex regulatory landscape.

Our FSI team is expanding, and an opportunity exists at the Analyst level in our Risk & Regulatory team.  The ideal candidate will have developed knowledge and skills in Risk & Regulatory and possess a successful track record of contributing to projects within the Financial Services sector.

The successful candidate will contribute to pan European projects that will build the profile and reputation of A&M within the specialist area of Financial Services Risk & Regulatory. They will reflect the operational distinctiveness that is A&M; a business savvy, solution-focused business entrepreneur who is determined to make a difference and not afraid to challenge the status-quo.

Assignments will range from advice on implementing new regulation, and the transformation of systems, processes, and policies, through to helping clients remediate adverse regulatory findings or manage intense regulatory scrutiny. You will also support vendors and acquirors of regulated firms with regulatory due diligence, supervisory engagement, and the Change in Control process.

The successful candidate will work on high profile projects for Financial Services clients across Europe on a broad range of Risk & Regulatory topics including.

• Complex regulatory change and remediation programmes, contributing to plans and delivery of programmes
• Translating regulatory requirements into business and functional requirements and control changes to achieve compliance
• Reviewing and testing controls including enterprise-wide risk management frameworks, conduct risk, credit risk, operational risk, and liquidity risk
• Evaluating and examining risk and compliance operating models to identify areas for improvement
• Providing regulatory and technical advice to support clients on UK and European regulatory developments
• Examining Client policies and procedures, assessing them against regulatory requirements and best practice
• Assessing the impact of the regulatory environment on Client’s strategy, revenue streams and wider business issues

The successful candidate will be at the heart of delivering Risk & Regulatory financial crime programmes within financial institutions, where the regulatory perspective is central to a business-critical judgement. They will also have the opportunity to be actively involved in business development and be an integrated part of the Risk & Regulatory team.

Requirements:

• Strong academic track record including a degree (or equivalent) in a relevant finance, economics or business-related subject
• Previous experience in Financial Services particularly in relation to prudential risk, conduct risk and financial crime or other relevant areas. This experience may have been gained at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) or European equivalent, an Investment Bank or other Financial Services firms, a Big 4 Firm or other well-established and respected boutique Advisory firms
• Excellent financial analytical skills (Excel, Alteryx, Tableau, Python, etc) & presentation skills (Powerpoint)
• Action-oriented self-starter with strong analytical skills
• Methodical and logical mindset to problem solving, an effective approach to time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Fluent business level English is essential. Additional European language skills including French, Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian are highly desirable
• Knowledge of recent or pending EU regulatory initiatives, e.g. CRDIV, Solvency II, MiFID II; IDD; IFPR is advantageous

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor or any other characteristics in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.