Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager – Risk & Regulatory Transformation (Financial Services)

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.  

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

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Our Delivery Team is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme and portfolio capability. The team has a great reputation for realising high value outcomes for our clients by supporting and leading delivery across the most critical projects, programmes and portfolios. Developing meaningful and long-standing partnerships with our clients, the team also has an extensive track record of providing crucial advisory services and building delivery capability and delivery excellence for client teams at all levels.

Our growing team covers the full spectrum of delivery expertise. Our experience ranges from supporting highly complex business transformations, to delivering infrastructure and engineering projects, through to providing deep technical expertise on IT and technology driven change. We are able to provide deep sector insight and bring fresh perspectives to delivery challenges.

Some example of our exciting assignments include: 

• Leading implementation of major new regulatory requirements across banking and insurance clients
• Delivering operational resilience programmes spanning people, process, technology and third parties
• Supporting financial institutions with cyber risk and resilience transformation
• Leading controls, governance and compliance enhancement programmes
• Delivering regulatory remediation and assurance initiatives for major financial services organisations

We are looking for candidates with the potential to become future leaders within the firm. Our Delivery team goes beyond traditional programme management. We are seeking individuals who combine exceptional delivery capability with deep expertise across the financial services risk, regulatory and resilience landscape.

The strongest candidates will bring experience of helping financial institutions respond to regulatory change, strengthen resilience, manage risk and deliver complex compliance transformations whilst maintaining operational effectiveness and customer trust.

We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of:

• Financial Services Regulation
• DORA
• Operational Resilience
• Financial Crime, AML and Economic Crime Prevention
• Data Privacy and Data Protection
• Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)
• Cyber Security Transformation
• Risk and Controls Transformation
• Conduct and Consumer Duty
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
• Solvency II
• Prudential Regulation
• Regulatory Reporting and Controls
• Regulatory Remediation Programmes

We would expect you to demonstrate experience in at least three of the following:

• Leading major regulatory change programmes from impact assessment through implementation and assurance
• Delivering operational resilience, cyber resilience or risk transformation initiatives
• Implementing new regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations across financial services institutions
• Managing large-scale compliance, controls or governance transformation programmes
• Leading remediation programmes following regulatory findings, audits or internal reviews
• Designing and implementing enhanced risk management, governance and control frameworks
• Managing complex stakeholder groups including risk, compliance, legal, operations and executive leadership teams
• Delivering regulatory change across banking, insurance, wealth management or market infrastructure organisations
• Implementing technology, data and RegTech solutions to improve compliance, monitoring and reporting
• Establishing sustainable operating models that embed regulatory compliance, resilience and risk management capability

General skills and experience:

• Strong programme, portfolio or project delivery expertise
• Deep understanding of the financial services regulatory environment
• Ability to engage credibly with senior regulatory, risk and compliance stakeholders
• Experience delivering measurable risk reduction and compliance outcomes
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Ability to navigate complex governance environments
• Commercial awareness and consulting experience
• Passion for helping clients solve complex regulatory and operational challenges

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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