Financial Services Regulatory Consulting Senior

Forvis Mazars in Ireland is a leading professional services firm with ambitious growth plans and over 800 staff based in Dublin, Galway and Limerick. We are an integral part of Forvis Mazars Group, an internationally integrated partnership with over 50,000 professionals operating in over 100 countries and territories around the world. Our strategic framework drives positive and meaningful impact for our people, the environment and local communities while delivering unmatched client experience to our clients.

Why join us

Our people are ambassadors and leaders and have a bold entrepreneurial spirit to shape the future of our industry and the communities within which we serve. We empower and develop our teams to become professionals of the highest calibre in technical and client excellence. Our people first approach offers our teams a caring work environment which promotes belonging and inclusivity of all cultures and perspectives.

The Position

We wish to appoint an experienced consulting Senior to fill a financial services consulting role. The ideal candidate will have a risk, compliance, internal audit, accountancy or similar background and at least 5 years' experience. Our FS consulting team work with and support a range of financial institutions and entities in banking, insurance, asset management, payment and MIFID services.

As a member of the consulting team, you will have the opportunity to support the delivery of a range of projects of a recurring and non-recurring nature in the following areas:

• New regulatory licence applications
• Relevant regulatory investigations
• Prudential FS compliance and risk management
• Design of internal control frameworks

Strong technical, communication and client relationship skills are required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Management of relationships with clients
• High quality service delivery
• Supporting client projects
• Reporting into the partners/ directors, working towards the achievement of departmental goals and targets
• Working to deadlines and within budgets on each assignment
• Growing your knowledge of banking regulatory and compliance in the prudential space
• Involvement as an ambassador in firm / department / practice development and marketing initiatives
• Managing and developing junior team members
• Writing articles on regulatory topics for publication

Principal Requirements

• Qualification in accountancy or relevant industry qualification (e.g. QFA, ACOI, CFA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA)
• Ideally, a minimum of 5 years' experience within risk/ compliance / banking consulting
• Good understanding of risk and compliance regulations (CRR, CRD, BRRD, IFR/D, EMI/PSD etc)
• Demonstrated knowledge of challenges and developments within the banking industry
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience of operational supervision of assignments and managing of client relationships
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Strong organisational and planning capabilities
• Ability to work on own initiative and to provide guidance to others
• Experience of working to deadlines and delivering under pressure
• Excellent computer-literacy skills
• Experience in a professional services firm

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