Business Consultant, Risk and Compliance

What You’ll Do:

• Lead client workstreams from discovery through implementation, including scoping, requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, and adoption.
• Serve as a primary day-to-day client contact, building trusted relationships and facilitating productive stakeholder discussions about meeting regulatory requirements in professional services firms.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear, scalable process, technology, data, and operating-model recommendations.
• Contribute to the development and management of consulting plans, timelines, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and status reporting.
• Analyze current-state law, processes, systems, and data to identify improvement opportunities and recommend practical solutions.
• Guide solution configuration, data migration planning, testing, quality assurance, and change-management activities as applicable.
• Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and escalations; recommend timely course corrections to maintain engagement quality.
• Create and present executive-ready materials that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, decisions, and outcomes.
• Partner with sales and engagement leadership on scoping conversations, estimates, and proposed approaches when needed.
• Contribute to Harbor’s consulting methodology, reusable assets, quality standards, and continuous-improvement efforts.

Required qualifications:

• You will have worked within a law firm or other regulated professional service firm, ideally having had exposure to the risk or business acceptance functions. Alternatively you will have worked for a management consultancy providing advice to business process advice to professional services firms.
• Demonstrated experience leading substantial workstreams or complex projects in a client-facing environment which were focused on business process optimization including the implementation or adaptation of technology to support the changes.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, finance, or a related field.
• Strong ability to move from ambiguous business challenges to structured, actionable solutions.
• Experience managing stakeholder expectations, facilitating workshops, and communicating effectively with both executives and technical teams.
• Advanced analytical skills and strong proficiency with Excel, presentation tools, and business systems or data platforms.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, deliver high-quality work, and exercise sound judgment in fast-moving environments.
• A highly collaborative, self-directed working style and experience partnering with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in professional services, legal, financial services, or another complex, regulated corporate environment.
• Experience leading enterprise software, workflow, data migration and business-process transformation engagements.
• Familiarity with SaaS applications, integrations and APIs, business intelligence tools, or data-quality practices.
• Master’s degree or a consulting, project-management, or process-improvement certification.