Financial Risk Manager

About the role

Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organizations. The role leverages advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize business, operational, regulatory, and technology risks and mitigation strategies for clients.
• Assess the impact of key technology trends and workforce changes, engaging with cloud computing, big data, analytics, process automation, AI/ML, and other digital strategies.
• Manage development of client deliverables and internal business needs.
• Serve on workstreams for complex projects, liaise with client counterparts, and participate in project management and work delivery discussions.
• Lead project teams to provide recommendations that improve or transform processes to gain efficiencies, scale, or reduce risk.
• Drive internal business development initiatives and sales opportunities, including creation of industry perspectives, lead‑generation materials, and sales proposals.
• Produce quality work products independently and collaboratively throughout the development lifecycle from conception to implementation.
• Engage with industry participants on market trends, competitive activities, and topic‑specific discussions, potentially with clients, consortiums, or trade groups.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Leadership of projects or workstreams.
• Management and prioritization of multiple tasks in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Mentoring and providing clear guidance to others.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in financial services or consulting, supporting financial risk areas such as Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, or Capital Management/Stress Testing.
• Knowledge of financial services business models, products, and services; banking, digital assets, or capital markets experience is desirable.
• Strong relationship‑management skills with clients and Deloitte practitioners.
• Experience with business transformation, regulatory remediation, or change‑management initiatives.
• Understanding of business processes, regulatory requirements, technology, and governance for financial institutions.
• Strong project/program management skills, work ethic, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent oral and written communication, including leading proposal development and sales presentations.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or certifications (e.g., Quant MS, MBA, FRM, CFA, CRCM, CPA, PMP).
• Expertise in one or more financial risk domains (Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Capital Management/Stress Testing) with specific technical knowledge.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end banking products/operations.
• Subject‑matter expertise in financial services areas (Retail, Commercial, Transaction, Wholesale, Cards & Payments, Wealth/Investment Management, Capital Markets, Real Estate, FinTech/PE).
• Prior risk‑management role or experience at a U.S. banking regulator.
• Familiarity with key regulatory initiatives (Dodd‑Frank, FRB/Fed, OCC, CFTC) and associated models, data, processes, and controls.
• Hands‑on ability to analyze/model data using Python, R, SAS, SQL.
• Experience supporting or implementing systems (trading, operations, lending, core banking, compliance, risk/case management, data management).
• Knowledge of process design, workflow development, data management/migration, analytics/visualization.
• Experience with user acceptance testing, system configuration, monitoring, or issue resolution.
• Ability to translate risk or regulatory requirements into actionable user stories or business needs.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Visio).

Pay

The disclosed salary range for this role is $134,500 to $265,100, reflecting factors such as skill set, experience, certifications, and geographic differentials.