Capital Markets Transformation Director

Our Banking and Markets practice are looking for an experienced Director focusing on Capital Markets Transformation to join the team.

We are seeking an experienced Capital Markets Transformation Director to join our Banking & Markets team within the Financial Services Consulting practice. The successful candidate will lead strategic transformation programmes for leading universal banks investment banks broker-dealers asset managers and market infrastructure providers. This role requires an understanding of capital markets products end to end trade lifecycle including post trade operations and technology combined with proven experience delivering large-scale change in complex regulated environments.

You will help clients navigate the challenges of post trade regulatory change digitisation operational resilience and evolving customer expectations shaping strategies and delivering measurable addition to your delivery excellence you will leverage your established industry network and client relationships to originate and grow accounts playing a pivotal role in building trusted long-term partnerships with C-suite stakeholders and positioning our firm as a partner of choice across the capital markets sector.

What you will be doing

• Client Leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives within capital markets institutions shaping and delivering transformation agendas across front middle and back-office functions

• Transformation Delivery:Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver programs in areas including:

  • Post-trade modernisation (accelerated settlement operations clearing collateral custody securities financing etc.)

  • Operating Model and process optimisation across trade lifecycle (cost efficiencies capability and process improvement post-merger integration legal entity restructures etc.)

  • Regulatory-driven change (e.g. MiFID II Basel IV CRD VI TCM EMIR Dodd-Frank FRTB CSDR SEC)

  • Operational resilience (risk & control frameworks cybersecurity business continuity)

  • Front-to-back digital transformation (cloud adoption platform modernization AI/automation data management)

  • Client experience transformation (digital channels onboarding servicing)

• Strategic Advisory: Provide insights on macro and market trends helping clients adapt to pressures from cost digitisation new competitors and evolving regulations

• Practice Development: Shape go-to-market propositions in key areas (e.g. cost reduction and value creation emerging regulations AI in trading and post trade cloud migration data-driven compliance)

• Business Development: Identify and originate opportunities lead proposal development and build long-term relationships with C-suite stakeholders across our strategic accounts

• Team Leadership: Mentor coach and grow high-performing consulting teams ensuring a strong pipeline of capital markets talent

Your skills and experience

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent)

• Substantial experience in financial services consulting the bulk of which has been focused on capital markets transformation

• Proven track record leading complex transformation programs across multiple geographies and functions

• Strong knowledge of capital markets products (equities fixed income derivatives FX) and infrastructure (trading clearing settlement custody)

• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills

• Strong program and portfolio management experience

• Deep understanding of regulatory drivers and market trends

• Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery

• Demonstrated ability to generate new business and manage client relationships

• Experience in agile delivery and digital innovation within capital markets is highly desirable

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each addition to this we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the ideal work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. Weve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the companys success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity innovation and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our Great Place to Work with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work and offer a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills talent and essence we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.