Konexo
Regulatory Readiness Lead (Contract) - 3 Months
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Practice Group / Team: Konexo
Role: Regulatory Readiness Lead (Contract) - 3 Months
Contract Type: Full-time
Working Model: Hybrid - 3 days in the office
Location: London
About Konexo
Konexo was established in 2011 as part of Eversheds Sutherland and is a pioneer in alternative legal and compliance services. We deliver a broad range of legal, regulatory, and compliance solutions, supported by advanced technology, smart systems, and specialist expertise.
Working closely with our Financial Services legal teams, we partner with clients to deliver complex regulatory, risk, compliance, and transformation programmes across banking, payments, fintech, asset management, and insurance sectors.
Our Financial Services consultancy supports organisations navigating regulatory scrutiny, large-scale remediation activity, financial crime transformation, control enhancement programmes, and regulatory change initiatives.
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Regulatory Readiness Lead
Our client is a global organisation operating across 50 countries with over 20,000 employees.
We are seeking an experienced Regulatory Readiness Lead to manage the organisation's preparation for a significant upcoming regulatory visit. This is a consulting assignment where you will coordinate the end-to-end readiness programme, ensuring the business is fully prepared to engage confidently, consistently, and credibly with regulators.
What you'll do
- Lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of the regulatory visit readiness programme, developing and driving a detailed project plan, milestones and governance.
- Coordinate stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance and Operations to ensure all regulatory requests are understood, owned and delivered on time.
- Prepare executive leadership for meetings with regulators through tailored briefings, anticipated questions, key messages and supporting materials.
- Develop and quality assure evidence packs, presentations, Q&A documents and supporting documentation, ensuring consistency, accuracy and traceability.
- Facilitate readiness workshops, rehearsal sessions and mock interviews with senior leaders and subject matter experts.
- Identify, track and manage risks, issues and actions throughout the preparation phase, providing regular progress updates to programme sponsors.
- Coordinate logistics and governance during the regulatory visit, managing follow-up actions and ensuring timely responses to any additional requests.
- Deliver an honest assessment of organisational readiness and recommend practical actions to address any remaining gaps before the visit.
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What we're looking for
- Proven programme or project management experience delivering complex, cross-functional regulatory readiness initiatives within large organisations.
- Hands-on experience preparing organisations for regulatory visits, supervisory reviews or regulatory enquiries.
- Experience working with UK regulators, particularly the FCA, is advantageous.
- Experience supporting organisations through HMRC visits or enquiries would be highly desirable.
- Strong ability to interpret regulatory expectations and translate them into practical delivery plans, executive briefings and supporting documentation.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage senior executives and challenge constructively where required.
- Outstanding written communication skills, including experience producing executive briefings, Q&A packs, playbooks and evidence repositories.
- Knowledge of governance, risk and controls, financial crime compliance or conduct risk would be beneficial.
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