Capco
AI Business Consulting Lead
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AI Business Consulting Lead
Location: London (Hybrid)
Practice Area: Business Consulting
Type: Permanent
The Role
Join Capco’s Business Consulting practice as an AI Business Consulting Lead, partnering with leading financial services organisations to shape, scale, and embed AI-enabled transformation initiatives across their businesses. This role combines strategic advisory, transformation delivery, stakeholder leadership, and AI commercialisation, helping clients unlock measurable value from technologies such as GPT, Copilot, and broader AI/ML capabilities through practical, responsible, and measurable ways of working.
Operating at Principal Consultant level, you will lead complex client engagements, oversee multidisciplinary delivery teams, and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across business, operations, technology, risk, and compliance functions. You will play a key role in identifying AI-enabled opportunities, shaping transformation roadmaps, supporting responsible AI adoption, and driving enterprise-wide change within complex, regulated environments while ensuring AI-enabled solutions are fit for purpose, human-led, and context-aware.
This role is suited to individuals who combine deep financial services expertise with strong consulting capability and practical experience delivering AI-enabled business transformation and improving delivery through approved AI tools and automation where appropriate.
What You’ll Do
- Lead AI-enabled transformation engagements for financial services clients, helping organisations identify, shape, and scale opportunities that improve operational efficiency, workforce productivity, and business innovation using approved AI tools and practical automation where they add value.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, facilitating executive discussions, shaping AI adoption strategies, and translating business challenges into practical, scalable AI use cases and delivery roadmaps.
- Oversee delivery activities across complex transformation programmes, leading multidisciplinary teams and supporting project governance, stakeholder management, delivery planning, and change execution including AI-enabled ways of working, where relevant.
- Partner with technology, product, engineering, risk, and compliance teams to support the development, testing, governance, and deployment of AI-enabled solutions within regulated environments with appropriate human-in-the-loop review, guardrails, and audit trails.
- Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, client development, team mentoring, and the advancement of Capco’s AI consulting capabilities across financial services including sharing practical AI use cases and responsible adoption approaches.
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What We’re Looking For
- Significant experience delivering business transformation, consulting, or AI-enabled change initiatives within financial services environments, with SME-level exposure to Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, or Insurance.
- Strong understanding of the AI/ML ecosystem, including GPT, Copilot, generative AI, NLP, foundation models, and enterprise AI adoption considerations within regulated industries including sharing practical AI use cases and responsible adoption approaches.
- Proven experience leading complex programmes or consulting engagements, with strong knowledge of project delivery approaches, governance frameworks, stakeholder management, and organisational change delivery.
- Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, translating emerging technologies into commercially relevant business outcomes and practical transformation strategies.
- Collaborative, adaptable, and delivery-focused mindset, with experience navigating governance, risk, compliance, and responsible AI considerations within enterprise environments and curiosity to experiment responsibly with approved AI tools.
Bonus Points For
- Experience leading AI commercialisation, AI product delivery, or enterprise AI adoption initiatives within large financial institutions.
- Previous consulting or advisory experience within a professional services environment at Principal Consultant or equivalent level.
- Familiarity with AI governance, model risk management, MLOps, responsible AI frameworks, or regulatory considerations relating to AI deployment and using them to improve productivity or delivery quality.
- Experience building client relationships, contributing to business development activities, or supporting proposition and capability development.
- Exposure to tools and platforms such as Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Platform, Power Automate, or enterprise AI ecosystems.
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Why Join Capco
- Lead high-impact AI transformation programmes for leading financial services organisations.
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture.
- Access continuous learning, leadership development, and industry certifications.
- Play a key role in shaping Capco’s AI consulting capabilities and market presence.
- Help clients unlock the value of AI through practical, people-focused transformation and innovation.
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.
- Holiday Flexibility: 5 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, plus a Business Coach assigned from Day One to support your development and career growth.
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.
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