Capgemini Looking For Director – Business Resilience (Risk Compliance) at Bengaluru, Karnataka, Full Time

The Opportunity

Capgemini is seeking a Director-level executive to

• Develop and implement strategies to foresee and address emerging risks, opportunities, and trends in the financial sector, ensuring long-term business resilience for both clients and the organization.
• Lead and manage the ERM consulting practice, defining strategic vision, setting goals, and executing initiatives that align with the company’s objective.
• Understand clients’ risk management needs and provide guidance on best practices, tools, and strategies for addressing enterprise risks across their organizations.
• Identify, assess, and manage operational risks related to financial transactions, market fluctuations, and internal processes that could impact client services or financial stability.
• Establish and track resilience-focused Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of business continuity and crisis management strategies for clients.
• Oversee the resilience of IT systems, ensuring uninterrupted access to digital banking, trading, and payment platforms during technological disruptions or cyber threats.
• Collaborate with sales teams to create compelling proposals, responses to RFPs, and other pre-sales materials, ensuring alignment with client need.
• Lead the sales cycle and drive efforts to secure new consulting engagements.
• Lead the development of consulting offers and assets to support pre-sales, go-to-market pursuits, and capability demonstrations.

This person will have

• Design and implement change management strategies to foster organizational acceptance of new risk management practices, processes, and tools.
• Deep knowledge of financial risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and IT resilience.
• Strong leadership and team management skills with a track record of driving strategic goals and achieving business objectives.
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating risks across financial transactions, operations, and client services.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, account management, and consulting teams.
• Experience with business development, proposal creation, and sales efforts to drive new consulting engagements.

The candidate should have strong leadership skills with proven experience managing and developing high-performing risk management teams, and the ability to influence senior management and global teams on strategic risk decisions. The firm seeks not only a strong leader who can articulate a vision, but one who can also drive execution of that vision in a very concrete manner that results in tangible business outcomes (bookings, contribution margin, revenue, market recognition).

The role demands a high level of autonomy; a strong appetite to drive change and overcome organizational complexity; and a high level of drive to build a business from its current strong foundations to a potential billion-scale business.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Deep understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks, methodologies, and industry best practices.
• Provide insights on how to manage and mitigate regulatory risks and ensure ongoing compliance.
• Experience with regulatory and compliance standards such as SOX, COSO, ISO 31000, and others is highly desirable.
• Develop and implement processes for ongoing monitoring, reporting, and escalation of risks with clear actionable recommendations.
• Excellent aptitude, problem-solving skills, and quick prototyping / proof -of-concept-creation skills.
• Manage the resilience of financial service providers, third-party vendors, and service chains, ensuring minimal disruption in service delivery during crises.

Our Ideal Candidate

He/She/They will have 18-20 years of experience in Operational Risk / Enterprise Risk Management and a strong project track record and demonstrated P&L contribution to sales.

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise risk management, with at least 8 years in a leadership role. Proven track record of delivering large-scale risk management projects across industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, or government is preferred.
• He/She/They should be willing to take on a committed engagement role or client-facing advisory/delivery responsibilities while implementing our offers/solutions with our local and/or global teams.
• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field.

This person is motivated to deliver high-quality work to drive customer satisfaction. They use their intellect, insight, and ability to build creative solutions with clients and colleagues while embracing a collaborative mindset. Key qualifications include:

• Strong customer orientation, decision making, problem solving, communication and presentation skills
• Very good judgement skills and ability to shape compelling solutions and solve unstructured problems with assumptions
• Very good collaboration skills and ability to interact with multi-cultural and multi-functional teams spread across geographies
• Strong executive presence and entrepreneurial spirit
• Superb leadership and team building skills with ability to build consensus and achieve goals through collaboration rather than direct line authority