Senior Regulatory Transformation Director - contract and permanent roles

DB Recruitment is seeking senior regulatory transformation leaders with a track record of taking complex, regulator-driven programmes from mobilisation through implementation and closure. You will own delivery across multiple workstreams, working with executive sponsors and teams across Risk, Compliance, Operations, Finance, Data and Technology.

Permanent and contract roles on offer and hybrid remote work

We’re looking for depth in one or more of the following areas, alongside experience leading change across a wider regulatory portfolio.

• Credit risk and IRB – Internal Ratings-Based model implementation, redevelopment or remediation, including changes to credit risk data, systems, controls and governance.
• Conduct risk and customer remediation – Reviews of customer outcomes, investigation of affected populations, redress delivery and changes to prevent recurrence.
• AML and financial crime – Transformation or remediation across KYC, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening or associated controls.
• Large-scale regulatory remediation – Multi-workstream programmes responding to supervisory findings, regulatory commitments or material control failures.

Key responsibilities

• Take accountability for programme scope, budget, resources, milestones and delivery against regulatory commitments.
• Translate supervisory findings and regulatory requirements into a delivery plan with clear owners, acceptance criteria and evidence requirements.
• Lead programme teams across business and technology, resolve cross-functional dependencies and escalate decisions that put delivery at risk.
• Report progress, risks and decisions to executive sponsors and steering committees. Support engagement with regulators and supervisory teams where required.
• Coordinate testing, independent assurance and closure evidence. Ensure revised controls, processes and systems have clear owners after handover.

Experience required

• Director, Senior Director or equivalent experience leading complex regulatory change within a bank, regulated financial institution or consulting firm.
• Direct accountability for delivering at least one major programme in credit risk or IRB, conduct, AML or financial crime, or large-scale regulatory remediation.
• Experience taking a programme through implementation, validation and closure, including demonstrating that actions were completed and controls were operating as intended.
• A track record of managing senior stakeholders, multidisciplinary teams, material budgets and competing delivery deadlines.
• The ability to explain regulatory and delivery risks clearly to executive sponsors and turn their decisions into action.

Experience supporting direct supervisory engagement or delivering programmes across multiple entities or jurisdictions would be advantageous.

For more info you can contact me at david@db-recruitment.ie