HRMC Consultant (Project Lead) — Global Corporate

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Practice Group / Team: Konexo Role: HMRC Consultant (Project Lead) — Global Corporate

Contract Type: Full-time

Working Model: Hybrid

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.

Regulatory Consultant (Project Lead) — Global Corporate

Our client is a global corporate operating in 50 countries with 20,000+ employees.

This is a senior consulting role leading regulatory readiness projects and orchestrating executive briefings ahead of supervisory engagements. You will be the point person coordinating stakeholders, setting the plan, and ensuring the organisation shows up prepared, consistent, and credible with regulators.

What you’ll do:

• Lead end-to-end programme/project management for regulatory visits and reviews, building and driving detailed readiness plans, timelines, and workstreams.
• Prepare and brief executive leadership on expectations, meeting dynamics, likely lines of inquiry, and standards of evidence.
• Coordinate content and evidence packs across functions (Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Ops), ensuring accuracy, consistency, and traceability.
• Advise on engagement strategy and tone with regulators; coach senior spokespeople and SMEs for interviews and walkthroughs.
• Run rehearsal sessions, mock interviews, and issue triage; track actions, risks, decisions, and mitigations.
• Support on-the-day logistics and governance; capture follow-ups and lead response plans
• post-visit.
• Provide candid readiness assessments and uplift plans to close gaps.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong project/programme management skills with a track record delivering complex, cross-functional regulatory initiatives in large organisations.
• Direct exposure to regulatory visits or supervisory activities.
• Helpful: FCA regulatory relations experience, or time as an FCA supervisory person.
• Highly desirable: Experience preparing for/handling HMRC visits
• or enquiries.
• Ability to translate regulatory expectations into clear plans, artefacts, and executive talking points.
• Confident communicator with senior stakeholders; credible, calm under pressure, highly organised.
• Excellent written materials capability (briefings, Q&A packs, playbooks, evidence indexes).Knowledge across risk and controls, governance, financial/crime compliance or conduct risk is advantageous.