Risk Advisory Consultant / Senior Consultant

Our Risk & Compliance practice are looking for an experienced Consultant/Senior Consultant to join the team. 

We’re building a modern Risk Advisory capability that helps CROs and risk leaders turn risk functions into strategic enablers – not cost centres. Our work spans operating model redesign, risk framework modernisation, automation of risk processes, cultural change, and enabling digital, AI‑driven insight across risk lifecycles. 

What you will be doing

Advising clients on strategies and approaches to enable the risk function to achieve safe growth. You will be responsible for delivering tangible business benefits to our clients by working within an international community of risk experts, ex-regulators, and industry specialists.

We are seeking curious candidates who bring a depth in financial or non-financial risk and understand the capabilities risk functions need to adopt for the future. You will be responsible for building and delivering various aspects of our risk transformation offering focused on the following propositions:

• Adaptive Risk: Support design of ERM frameworks, governance models, and risk processes that enable CROs to better understand the relationships between risk stripes

• Simplifying Risk: Assess risk activities, identify inefficiencies, and design simplified, automated workflows to enable faster more confident decision making

• Tech & Data‑enabled Risk: Support digital and AI-enabled risk process modernization bringing the risk function ahead on the digital agenda

• Risk Culture Evolution: Contribute to behavioural diagnostics, cultural interventions, and tools strengthening ownership across LoD

More specifically, you will be running workstreams and managing others on a range of projects bringing industry leading practices to all aspects of our client’s risk management approach. You will bring expertise on the future of risk management based on a strong understanding of risk practices across financial services.  You will use data analysis, AI and technical skills together with risk expertise to deliver outcomes for our clients.

You will be expected to regulatory report out and present to senior clients using exceptional written and verbal communication skills.  Lastly, we expect you to stay current in the industry and work on improving your specialism leveraging Baringa learning framework.

 
Your skills and experience 
 

• You will have solid experience in Industry, from a first line role, second line risk / compliance or third line internal audit role; or good level of experience as a Consultant or Auditor in practice helping clients with operational controls, risks and regulation 

• You will have a track record of work experience with risk and control projects for example, documenting, testing design effectiveness and operating effectiveness or identifying areas for simplification and cost reduction

• You will have spent time working as part of a team on larger reviews and be able to leverage knowledge of such engagements that are run well 

• You’ll possess understanding of relevant regulations and expectations e.g. Operational Risk, Data Governance, Client Protection, Market Infrastructure, etc.  

• You will have a good understanding of the business, products and and their key challenges 

• You will understand how common products and services are structured, sold, processed and operationally supported to be able to bridge the gap between business and Risk/Compliance  

• You’ll have a desire to become a SME and build your curiosity alongside delivering client projects 

• You can leverage an understanding of industry best practice and trends across non-financial risk practices

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include: 

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service. 

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave. 

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us. 

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice. 

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success. 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. 

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.