BeyondFS is a rapidly growing UK-based consultancy, having grown fivefold in the past three years. We provide ‘expert-led change’ services to financial institutions, helping them shape, manage, and deliver their critical financial crime and regulatory-driven transformation programmes. Our consultants are passionate about delivering complex financial crime and regulatory transformation programmes to help our clients succeed and to drive a better, safer, more robust financial sector. Our consultants combine deep transformation expertise with subject matter knowledge in financial crime and regulatory-driven operations, enabling us to help our clients succeed in their most important initiatives.
The Opportunity
Are you ready to join an ambitious consultancy where you will experience both autonomy and support from day one? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and are curious to learn and be part of the growth and success of a scaling consultancy? If so, we want to hear from you!
As a leader of our business, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects and help shape and build our company as we grow. We are not for the faint-hearted, and you will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced, customer and people-first environment. In return, you can expect to join a supportive team who genuinely care about each other and like to have fun along the way. You will be working alongside some of the best consultants in the industry, where everyone takes pride in celebrating both individual and collective success.
What we are looking for?
We are looking for a Principal to join our team who will act as an inspiring leader within a fast-growing financial services consulting business. You will:
- Help shape, develop and grow BeyondFS propositions;
- Directly contribute through sales and business development;
- Be responsible for leading and delivering our largest and most complex transformation programmes;
- Support recruitment and other people-related activities; as well as
- Manage critical internal projects.
Like all of our team, enhancing our company culture will be a core part of your role – we want all of our consultants to be a role model to others in the business regardless of grade. Being a consultant at BeyondFS isn’t the easy option, but it’s hugely rewarding and offers a massive opportunity for growth to those who work with us.
Our core values are an honest reflection of who we are and how we deliver everything we do.
If you thrive in a sales-focused role, are passionate about delivery and leading from the front, and want to be part of an exciting journey shaping BeyondFS's future, we would love to hear from you!
Successful candidate must be able to evidence:
- 10 - 15+ years of financial services experience within the banking sector with a blend of consulting and industry experience. This experience will have ideally been gained within a top-tier consulting firm or in a large financial services organisation with exposure to a large range of products and geographies
- Significant experience operating at a senior level across client organisations (C-Level or equivalent) and existing trusted relationships with client sponsors and stakeholders
- Proven experience in building and leading data and automation teams in the financial crime or regulatory operations space.
- Deep expertise of the data environments associated with 1st line financial crime, non financial regulatory, or closely associated operational functions
- Shaping and growing data transformation teams, including the development of others within the team.
- Training and coaching more junior colleagues by sharing your expertise and experience
- Ability to take a leading role in the development of a consultancy, from developing go-to-market offerings, winning new clients, leading the delivery of client engagements, and leading of internal practice development areas
Skillset
- Passionate about data analysis and proven ability to communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences in a way that resonates with business context/objectives.
- Extensive experience using industry leading data analytics, data engineering and data visualisation solutions
- Considered a specialist in leading and delivering data transformation programmes, with hands on experience enabling you to deliver and lead operational change programmes
- Expert knowledge of the financial crime, regulatory and related operational data environments
- Experience analysing large datasets within an FS context
- Experienced in dealing with regulators, regulatory responses, and remedial programmes
- Network in the banking operations domain, confident speaker at industry events and recognised as an industry expert
Remuneration and benefits
You will be recognised and rewarded with:
- Competitive renumeration: This is made up of a base salary from £105k depending on experience, up to 10% sales bonus, up to 10% bonus based on company and up to 10% personal performance.
- Leave: 25 days holiday increasing by a day for each year in service to a total of 29 days (plus we will give you your birthday off)
- Additional leave: you can buy extra days up to a maximum of 30 per year
- Flexible benefits: £3000 annual allowance from day one of employment for you to allocate as you wish. Choose from benefits such as private medical insurance, critical illness cover, buy additional holiday or take the amount as extra cash if you prefer and electric car and ride to work schemes available on successful completion of your probationary period.
- A structured training approach
- Pension scheme
- Family: enhanced pay for maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.
Where are we located?
Our culture and team spirit are a key part of who we are and the business we all want to be part of. We encourage all of our team to collaborate and share knowledge working from our office whenever possible. We work in our serviced office space in London, with client-based working when needed. We ensure a well-stocked fridge (including non-alcoholic alternatives!), fruit, snacks and treats. Fortunately, we are also surrounded by quality coffee shops, lunch spots, and post-work options too. In addition, BeyondFS colleagues have access to all six One Avenue Group spaces across London.
Other roles are available on our website, please take a look Careers with BeyondFS - Our Values Make The Difference
What We Do
BeyondFS provides expert consultancy services to financial institutions, helping them to shape, manage and deliver their critical agenda in the face of evolving regulations, financial crime risks and operational challenges.
We’re here to help you address your toughest business challenges across the following pivotal areas:
Regulatory change - understand and adapt to new regulations, accelerate implementation programmes, and embed compliance.
Financial crime – deliver complex strategic and remedial financial crime programmes, perform risk assessments, enhance controls, streamline processes and future-proof operating models
Operational performance - design and implement new operating models, automate processes, improve MI and governance, and enhance resilience.
We are experts in implementing new technologies and building data capabilities in all of these areas, such as selecting optimal vendors, digitising workflows, and establishing robust data governance frameworks.
What makes us different?
1. Everything we do is geared towards our clients’ success
We are results-focused, client-obsessed and committed to delivering lasting solutions that align with your vision and serve as the foundation for your future success, not tick-box exercises.
2. We harness our expertise to our clients’ ambitions
We deploy small, high impact teams of handpicked experts in both programme delivery and technical specialisms, who deliver results quickly using methods proven through years of experience in the financial sector.
3. We are distinctively rewarding to work with
We are humble, friendly, and easy to work with, taking our work seriously but not ourselves. We excel at maintaining high motivation levels when leading programmes, even under intense pressure.
Where do you want to be tomorrow?
We can help you succeed in a rapidly evolving world.
