Consulting - Risk Analytics - Consultant

Company Description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Internal Client Services, Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

About Africa Consulting Services

Deloitte's Africa Consulting Services (ACS) excels in delivering innovative solutions through Strategy, Risk & Transactions (SRT) and Technology & Transformation (T&T). SR&T advises clients on how to create and protect value –this offering is designed to help organizations navigate complex business transformations, mergers, acquisitions, and strategic growth initiatives. T&T combines deep industry knowledge with cutting-edge technology to deliver tailored solutions that drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and foster sustainable growth. Together, these consulting services help clients navigate complex challenges and achieve their strategic goals.

Our multidisciplinary teams span across the continent and combine strategic foresight with rigorous analysis to drive growth, manage risks, and enhance industry performance.

We empower our clients to navigate complex challenges and uncover opportunities to create value and competitive advantage while also building organizational trust and resilience for the long run.

About the Division

Deloitte’s Regulatory Technology & Data (RTD) offering enables organisations to manage compliance and financial risk with confidence. Our domain-led approach combines regulatory expertise and cutting-edge technology to streamline processes, optimise reporting, and unlock competitive advantage in a complex regulatory landscape.

We offer comprehensive solutions for regulatory analytics, data governance, and risk management, supported by strategic alliances with leading technology partners. Deloitte’s proven track record in transforming compliance programs delivers measurable cost savings and enhanced risk management, helping businesses stay ahead in a rapidly changing environment.

Our professionals need to have the acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously, balancing long term engagements with the urgency of immediate operational demands. We are committed to establishing and empowering the firm by establishing an environment of continuous learning and enriching career opportunities.

Job Description

As a Consultant in our Regulatory Technology & Data (RTD) Offering, you will play a key role in enabling clients to derive meaningful insights from complex regulatory, risk, and business data. The role focuses on applying advanced analytics, reporting, and visualisation capabilities to transform regulatory and operational data into actionable intelligence that supports decision-making, regulatory compliance, and strategic outcomes.

The role requires a Business Analyst with strong experience in end-to-end analytics delivery, including problem definition, requirements translation, data interpretation, and insight communication. You will work across business, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders to translate regulatory and analytical requirements into clear use cases, analytics specifications, performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting outputs. This includes defining analytical logic, KPIs, and data-driven narratives that enable clients to monitor risk, identify trends, and improve regulatory and business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Requirements & analysis: Elicit, analyse, validate, and document business, regulatory, and data requirements; define scope, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Process mapping & controls: Map current-state and future-state processes (including controls, handoffs, and data lineage) and identify automation/standardisation opportunities.
• Functional specifications: Produce clear functional specs and user stories (with examples, edge cases, and testable outcomes) for data pipelines, analytics products, and RegTech solutions.
• Data management: Define data elements, business definitions, metadata, data quality rules, reconciliation checks, and reference/master data needs; support data governance practices.
• End-to-end analytics delivery: Partner with data engineering and BI teams across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and semantic layer design to ensure requirements are implemented correctly.
• Visualisations & insights: Design dashboards and reports that are regulatory-audit friendly (clear definitions, drill-through logic, and traceability) and enable decision-making.
• Testing & release: Support SIT/UAT planning, test case design, defect triage, and release readiness; ensure requirements traceability from intake to deployment.
• Stakeholder management: Facilitate workshops, backlog refinement, and prioritisation across Compliance, Risk, Finance, Operations, and Technology.
• Documentation & operationalisation: Maintain artefacts such as data dictionaries, KPI catalogues, dashboard user guides, runbooks, and change logs.
• Continuous improvement: Track benefits, adoption, and data quality metrics; recommend enhancements based on user feedback and regulatory change.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Preferred: IIBA (ECBA/CCBA/CBAP), Agile (PSM/CSM), or data-related certifications (e.g., DAMA/CDMP, Microsoft/AWS data certifications).

Experience

• Previous working experience in a Consulting environment
• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or Analytics/BI Business Analyst in a data-rich environment
• Depth and experience in the Regulatory environment and application technologies

Knowledge Required

• Proven delivery experience across the analytics lifecycle (requirements data processing reporting/visualisation UAT deployment).
• Hands-on experience producing process maps, functional specifications, and user stories for technical delivery teams.
• Experience working with data platforms (data warehouses/lakes), structured and semi-structured data, and data modelling concepts.
• Exposure to regulatory, risk, compliance, or audit functions (e.g., regulatory reporting, financial crime, conduct risk, operational risk, data/privacy compliance) is strongly beneficial.

Additional Information Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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