Senior Consultant – Operational Risk & Compliance, Technology
Guidehouse
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $107,000 - $178,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- As a Senior Consultant, you will be responsible for client management, solution implementation, and generating project results.
- You will own project workstreams and interact with clients daily to ensure engagement success.
- This includes supporting day-to-day operational meetings with client sponsors and consulting leaders.
- You will be expected to prepare and communicate well-organized, effective reports and presentations to client and internal executives.
- You will also have opportunities to lead, coach, and mentor consultants and ensure quality deliverables.
- Perform 1st and 2nd line of defense tasks including identifying, assessing, measuring, monitoring, reporting, and remediating operational risk and controls.
- Support and execute Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), specifically for the technology stack within financial institutions.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with financial systems and core banking platforms.
- Collaborate with business units and process owners to map processes, define inherent risks, and evaluate existing controls.
- Use tools, workshops, and interviews to uncover risk exposures.
- Evaluate whether controls are well-designed and operating effectively to mitigate risks.
- Test operating effectiveness of controls.
- Identify control gaps and deficiencies.
- Help develop or improve operational risk management frameworks, guidelines, and policies.
- Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements.
- Communicate risk and control findings and influence change.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree)
- 3+ years of experience in the banking industry or commercial financial services consulting in one or more of the following areas: Operational risk and/or big bank compliance (first or second line of defense)
- Banking regulations, compliance, and risk management requirements
- Risk and controls current state assessments (including process mapping)
- RCSA, operational risk, or technology risk roles—preferably within financial services or banking technology environments
- Compliance and risk assessment processes for large banks, ensuring adherence to international regulatory standards
- Experience working with commercial banks / financial institutions, ideally Global Systemically Important Banks (GSIBs)
- Willingness and ability to travel to NYC (if not local); must work onsite approximately 3 days/week
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
operational risk managementrisk assessmentprocess mappingRisk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA)controls testingrisk mitigationreportingproject managementfinancial systemsbanking technology
Soft skills
client managementcommunicationleadershipcoachingmentoringorganizational skillsinfluencingcollaborationpresentation skillsproblem-solving