Description:
We are seeking an experienced Capital Markets Transformation Director to join our Banking & Markets team within the Financial Services Consulting practice. The successful candidate will lead strategic transformation programmes for leading universal banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers. This role requires an understanding of capital markets products, end to end trade lifecycle, including post trade operations, and technology, combined with proven experience delivering large-scale change in complex, regulated environments.
You will help clients navigate the challenges of post trade regulatory change, digitisation, operational resilience, and evolving customer expectations, shaping strategies and delivering measurable results. In addition to your delivery excellence, you will leverage your established industry network and client relationships to originate and grow accounts, playing a pivotal role in building trusted long-term partnerships with C-suite stakeholders and positioning our firm as a partner of choice across the capital markets sector.
What you will be doing
- Client Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives within capital markets institutions, shaping and delivering transformation agendas across front, middle, and back-office functions
- Transformation Delivery: Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver programs in areas including:
- Post-trade modernisation (accelerated settlement, operations, clearing, collateral, custody, securities financing etc.)
- Operating Model and process optimisation across trade lifecycle (cost efficiencies, capability and process improvement, post-merger integration, legal entity restructures etc.)
- Regulatory-driven change (e.g. MiFID II, Basel IV, CRD VI, TCM, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, FRTB, CSDR, SEC)
- Operational resilience (risk & control frameworks, cybersecurity, business continuity)
- Front-to-back digital transformation (cloud adoption, platform modernization, AI/automation, data management)
- Client experience transformation (digital channels, onboarding, servicing)
- Strategic Advisory: Provide insights on macro and market trends, helping clients adapt to pressures from cost, digitisation, new competitors, and evolving regulations
- Practice Development: Shape go-to-market propositions in key areas (e.g., cost reduction and value creation, emerging regulations, AI in trading and post trade, cloud migration, data-driven compliance)
- Business Development: Identify and originate opportunities, lead proposal development, and build long-term relationships with C-suite stakeholders across our strategic accounts
- Team Leadership: Mentor, coach, and grow high-performing consulting teams, ensuring a strong pipeline of capital markets talent
Your Skills And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
- Substantial experience in financial services consulting, the bulk of which has been focused on capital markets transformation
- Proven track record leading complex transformation programs across multiple geographies and functions
- Strong knowledge of capital markets products (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX) and infrastructure (trading, clearing, settlement, custody)
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- Strong program and portfolio management experience
- Deep understanding of regulatory drivers and market trends
- Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
- Demonstrated ability to generate new business and manage client relationships
- Experience in agile delivery and digital innovation within capital markets is highly desirable