Deliver finance transformation consulting engagements for financial institutions, including finance operating model design, process optimisation, technology implementation, automation, AI-enabled workflows, data-driven reporting, project governance, risk management, stakeholder communication, and business development. Build trusted client relationships and support measurable improvements across finance functions while applying responsible AI practices.
Management Consultant – Finance Transformation (All Levels)
Location: Edinburgh & Glasgow (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime | Type: Permanent
Drive transformation in the heart of financial services
The Role
Join Capco as a Finance Transformation Consultant and help leading financial institutions optimise their finance functions, adapt to regulatory change, and implement innovative technology solutions. You'll work on projects that demand problem-solving skills, stakeholder management, and a passion for delivering measurable outcomes, with a focus on finance process automation and optimisation. You'll also embrace AI-enabled ways of working, using approved AI tools and automation to improve delivery quality, accelerate insight generation, and enhance productivity while applying appropriate human judgement and responsible AI practices.
What You'll Do
- Deliver client assignments that meet or exceed expectations, ensuring value-added outcomes.
- Lead and support finance transformation initiatives, including operating model design, process improvement, and technology implementation, identifying opportunities to leverage AI-enabled workflows and automation.
- Partner with clients to optimise finance processes through solutions such as RPA, AI-enabled workflows, digital technologies, and data-driven reporting.
- Manage project governance, risks, and stakeholder communications, ensuring appropriate oversight and validation where AI-assisted tools are utilised.
- Build trusted advisor relationships with senior leaders while contributing to business development and identifying innovative approaches to finance transformation.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience delivering finance transformation projects within financial services.
- Strong understanding of finance operating models, accounting principles, and regulatory impacts.
- Experience with process automation technologies and optimisation methodologies within finance.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to leverage approved AI tools to enhance analysis, productivity, and decision-making.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, together with an interest in responsible AI adoption within finance transformation.
Bonus Points For
- Professional accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, or ACA).
- Experience with finance technology platforms such as ERP, Accounting Engines, or Subledger systems.
- Exposure to regulations including IFRS 17, IFRS 9, Solvency II, Basel III, SOX, or GDPR.
- Hands-on experience delivering automation or AI-enabled finance transformation initiatives.
- Previous consulting experience within financial services.
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact transformation programmes for Tier 1 financial institutions.
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
- Access continuous learning, industry certifications, and structured career development.
- Help redefine finance functions through innovation, automation, and strategic change.
- Be part of a team shaping the future of financial services transformation.
Benefits
- Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
- Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family Care: Eight complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday Flexibility: Five weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
- Continuous Learning: Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually. Take your pick—workshops, certifications, e-learning—your growth, your way. Business Coach assigned from Day One to help accelerate your development.
- Healthcare Access: Convenient online GP services.
- Extra Perks: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance.
Inclusion at Capco
We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know—we'll be happy to help. We value each person's unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration—a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.
#LI-KA1
Capco Edinburgh, Scotland Office
The Eagle Building, 19 Rose St., Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH2 2PR
Similar Jobs at Capco
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
Deliver enterprise and operational risk transformation and advisory services for financial institutions. Assess and enhance risk processes, controls, governance, market abuse frameworks, and trade surveillance capabilities. Support AI-enabled analysis, surveillance model tuning, workflow automation, validation, auditability, and responsible AI practices. Collaborate with business, technology, compliance, and risk stakeholders to identify control gaps and implement data-driven improvements.
Top Skills:
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNasdaq SmartsNice Actimize
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
Lead business analysis and project delivery for trade and transaction reporting transformation across global regulatory regimes. Translate obligations into requirements, use cases, testing scenarios, and control frameworks. Partner with compliance, operations, technology teams, and vendors on implementation, data lineage, reconciliation, exception management, remediation, and governance across regimes including EMIR Refit, MiFIR, SFTR, CFTC, and MAS.
Top Skills:
ConfluenceDtccJIRAKaizenSteeleyeUnavista
Fintech • Professional Services • Consulting • Energy • Financial Services • Cybersecurity • Generative AI
Advise financial services and energy clients on operational resilience, cyber risk, technology risk, and third-party risk. Deliver resilience assessments, scenario testing, control implementations, regulatory readiness for PRA and DORA, cyber posture reviews, vendor resilience assessments, governance models, dashboards, reporting, and tooling transformations. Support regulatory change, control remediation, and multidisciplinary stakeholder engagement, with senior candidates also mentoring teams and developing propositions.
Top Skills:
Cloud SecurityIbsItol
What you need to know about the Edinburgh Tech Scene
From traditional pubs and centuries-old universities to sleek shopping malls and glass-paneled office buildings, Edinburgh's architecture reflects its unique blend of history and modernity. But the fusion of past and future isn't just visible in its buildings; it's also shaping the city's economy. Named the United Kingdom's leading technology ecosystem outside of London, Edinburgh plays host to major global companies like Apple and Adobe, as well as a growing number of innovative startups in fields like cybersecurity, finance and healthcare.
