Jerome Nyssen

Jerome Nyssen is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Risk Advisory practice, based in Sydney. Jerome brings 25 years of global experience assisting boards, executive teams and chief risk officers across the financial services industry to review and transform risk management, compliance and governance management capabilities, deliver regulatory remediation and embed the use of AI and Governance, Risk and Compliance (‘GRC’) technologies.

Jerome has hands-on experience helping executive teams establish AI strategies, management systems, operating models, risk management frameworks and governance arrangements.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Jerome was Chief Strategy Officer for a global AI and GRC vendor delivering SaaS solutions to highly regulated corporations. He was a Partner in Deloitte Australia’s Risk Advisory practice for five years, where he was the Operating Unit financial services industry (‘FSI’) leader and built their digitalisation of risk capability. He has also held senior roles in risk functions within global financial services organisations in London.

Relevant Experience:

• Risk and Compliance Transformation: Reset a multiyear 14-workstream, four-region global risk program for a large insurer, maintaining direct board and regulatory engagement throughout
• Risk Strategy and Target Operating Model: Assisted multiple FSI organisations to articulate their risk operating aligning board and executive stakeholders across strategy, governance, process, data, technology and culture
• Post-Merger Integration: Led risk, compliance and legal streams of an 18-month post-merger integration for a large asset manager
• Control Transformation: Assisted a global investment bank with non-financial risk evolution, covering control framework design, control library development and risk system uplift
• Independent Review of Risk Management Framework: Conducted many independent reviews of risk management systems for multiple APRA-regulated and non-APRA-regulated institutions
• AI and GRC Vendor Strategy, Selection and Implementation: Assisted more than 50 organisations with the selection and implementation of their governance, risk and compliance solutions
• AI Strategy, Management System and Governance: Assisted a financial services group to establish an AI strategy and management system, and complete proof of concept for multiple AI initiatives