Managing Partner – Growth Advisory — Risk And Controls Estate

The mandate

The enterprise is entering a phase in which leadership must resolve a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base within a multinational-owned regulated universal or specialist bank. The immediate arena is the risk and controls estate during a cost-to-income reset. For mandate 086, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory operating perimeter covers approximately £65,950 million in loan and deposit book, with activity spanning several risk and controls estate customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Banking remit carries direct influence over roughly 675 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The group board and the relevant risk and people committees want a Managing Partner – Growth Advisory who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the risk and controls estate. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Banking seat must resolve a cost-to-income reset, while preserving the underlying strengths of the risk and controls estate. For mandate 086, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s first year on the risk and controls estate is expected to end with origination diversity, partner leverage and recurring board mandates. In mandate 086, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is a newly created Managing Partner – Growth Advisory — Risk And Controls Estate seat, established because a cost-to-income reset now requires one accountable executive rather than distributed ownership. The board has classified the appointment as urgent and intends to move from qualified shortlist to offer within 6–8 weeks. Interim governance protects the risk and controls estate, but it is not a substitute for a permanent appointee. The external search remains confidential to avoid unnecessary disruption before the appointment is agreed.

What you will own

• Set the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory value-creation thesis for the risk and controls estate, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately £65,950 million in loan and deposit book, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory Banking organisation of about 675 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the risk and controls estate economics and execution constraints created by a cost-to-income reset, with Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Managing Partner – Growth Advisory operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the risk and controls estate; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Bring a verifiable book of trusted board relationships and evidence of building partner economics beyond personal billings in mandate 086.
• Build the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s three-year succession and capability plan for the risk and controls estate, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Banking organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the risk and controls estate baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Managing Partner – Growth Advisory portfolio and organisation choices for the risk and controls estate, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable risk and controls estate trend against origination diversity, partner leverage and recurring board mandates, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s agreed first-year risk and controls estate value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Managing Partner – Growth Advisory forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the risk and controls estate’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory mandate’s highest-priority risk and controls estate risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical risk and controls estate talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Managing Partner – Growth Advisory’s direct reports.
• A quantified Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-owned improvement in the risk and controls estate operating constraint behind a cost-to-income reset, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 086: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Managing Partner, Growth Practice Head or Senior Partner in a multinational-owned Banking or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the risk and controls estate, your Managing Partner – Growth Advisory track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from financial services, payments, lending, insurance or regulated fintech will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Managing Partner – Growth Advisory brief.

As a Managing Partner – Growth Advisory candidate, you bring 28+ years of progressive Banking or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 28-plus experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of £38,250 million and led an organisation of at least 475 people. Advisory seats require equivalent risk and controls estate client-value ownership and multi-disciplinary leadership.

For mandate 086, the board wants two transitions: a difficult risk and controls estate portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a cost-to-income reset. As the prospective Managing Partner – Growth Advisory for this risk and controls estate, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 086 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory must be based in London; international relocation is supported, but this Banking role is not designed as a remote appointment.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Managing Partner, Growth Practice Head or Senior Partner, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Banking governance forum.
• Proven Managing Partner – Growth Advisory ownership of at least £38,250 million and leadership of no fewer than 475 employees in a comparable risk and controls estate context.
• One completed Banking or adjacent-sector example of a growth-advisory practice seeking a second engine beyond a small anchor-client base with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from financial services, payments, lending, insurance or regulated fintech; experience that is purely functional and lacks Managing Partner – Growth Advisory-level risk and controls estate consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the London location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 086.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Managing Partner – Growth Advisory package is £400,000–575,000 base + annual incentive and LTI, calibrated to the final risk and controls estate scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 086 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Managing Partner – Growth Advisory appointment in London, centred on the risk and controls estate, offers regular exposure to the group board and the relevant risk and people committees. A structured client and conflict transition of up to 6 months can be accommodated for mandate 086.

Confidentiality

The organisation will be identified only after reciprocal interest and a confidentiality undertaking for mandate 086. The market, scale and situation in this brief are intentionally composite and are not a coded description of a named enterprise for mandate 086.