Risk & Compliance SME (AI Focus)

Company Description

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes.

Strategy & Management Consulting

Sia’s Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients’ businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.

A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. The Sia Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions.

Job Description

Join our consulting team to deliver high-impact solutions across risk, compliance, and operations transformation. In this role, you’ll work directly with clients to map how compliance and operational processes actually work, identify where they break down or create risk, and design better processes, then find the right opportunities to layer in AI to make them faster, more accurate, and more scalable.

You’ll operate in a fast-paced, client-facing environment, balancing independent ownership with strong collaboration across teams. This role is ideal for people with experience in technology and/or fintech environments, particularly within regulated or compliance-driven contexts, who also bring a genuine interest in where AI can realistically improve how compliance work gets done.

What You’ll Do

• Risk & Compliance Process Design

  • Map and diagnose compliance and operational processes end to end to pinpoint where they break down or create risk
  • Lead the design and implementation of improved frameworks, systems, and processes, including defining data requirements and analyzing performance trends across operational, logical, and system workflows
• AI Opportunity Identification
  • Evaluate compliance and operational processes to identify practical AI and automation use cases, from workflow automation to agentic AI
  • Build the business case for where these use cases will actually reduce risk or improve efficiency

• Client Delivery & Execution

  • Lead client engagements, both onsite and remotely, delivering high-quality workstreams and producing complex, client-ready deliverables

• Project & Workstream Management

  • Manage timelines, prioritize tasks, and coordinate activities across cross-functional stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

  • Build strong client relationships and confidently present insights, recommendations, and AI-enabled process improvements to stakeholders, including senior leadership

• Business Analysis & Problem Solving

  • Analyze client challenges using both quantitative and qualitative approaches to develop structured, actionable solutions

• Team Collaboration & Mentorship

  • Collaborate with and mentor team members on tools, methodologies, and best practices (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project)

• Documentation & Knowledge Management

  • Maintain clear and organized project documentation to ensure transparency, continuity, and knowledge sharing

• Thought Leadership & Practice Development

  • Drive thought leadership by shaping internal initiatives, sharing knowledge, and building firm capabilities around AI in risk and compliance

• Business Development Support

  • Shape proposal development, identify new opportunities, and drive broader business development efforts

• Meeting Facilitation

  • Lead effective meetings with both internal teams and clients, ensuring alignment and clear next steps

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Infor…