Senior Manager - Risk Consulting - FCC Transformation - UAE

Successful organizations depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. EY FCC professionals help organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation. We assist companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We put integrity at the heart of compliance programs to help better manage ethical and reputational risks.

Embracing integrity means doing what you say you will do, with unerring commitment. This can make it easier to attract and retain talented people and harness their skills to grow your business. A foundation built on integrity is critical because today’s talent values purpose-driven organizations. It can also help you develop stronger partnerships with suppliers and work more effectively with employees, investors, regulators and influencers. Our integrated approach ranges from enhancements in areas of perceived weakness or issues — including governance, controls, culture and data insights — to full organizational design and structural implementation.

The opportunity

As a Senior Manager, you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You’ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Manager in the FCC team, you are required to lead and grow a team and to provide strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, financial crime compliance (FCC), corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls to our clients. You are also required to assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls, in order to manage organizational and strategic risks.

You’ll package overall project findings into clear, concise, high quality work products and act as a subject matter expert, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems. Driving improvements in business processes, you’ll serve as a role model for quality and risk management and make sure that project teams understand and comply with our Q&RM guidelines.

As a respected senior professional you’ll communicate effectively with EY engagement partners and staff to build, manage and motivate high performing teams, and help key staff to build sustainable competencies.

Service Delivery Related

• Financial Crime Compliance framework functional knowledge
• Techno-functional capabilities and experience in carrying out compliance transformation program (pertaining to Current state assessments for financial crime compliance systems and processes)
• Tech consulting or transformation background and worked across global banks to support Financial Crime Compliance program
• Financial Crime products techno-functional knowledge (preferably worked on products like Actimize/Mantas/Quantexa/Fircosoft etc)
• Previous AML transformation experience across technology, people, process and governance would be preferred
• Demonstrate AML industry expertise (detailed understanding of the industry, trends, issues/challenges and leading practices)
• Demonstrate ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects as directed by the managers
• Ensure compliance with engagement plans and internal quality & risk management procedures.
• Develop strong working relationships with client (process owner/functional heads).
• Attention to detail and mentor young interns and analysts within the practice.
• Contribute to knowledge management sessions within the practice.
• Identify and escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client engagements.

Good to have

• Strong understanding of AML data structure and lineage, detection scenario logic, customer segmentation, typology assessment, Threshold Tuning and MIS reporting
• Strong understanding of Customer risk assessment and due diligence processes- CDD/EDD life cycle, name screening and integration with transaction monitoring

People related

• Demonstrate the ability and commitment on assigned responsibilities.
• Manage small teams – motivate, counsel & develop junior colleagues.
• Demonstrate ability to conceptualize & translate lessons learned on client engagements into relevant training sessions for junior colleagues and contribute to learning & development initiatives
• Pro-actively identify and escalate counselees not being chargeable on engagements.
• Provide real-time constructive verbal feedback to team members and facilitate timely completion of engagement review forms.
• Contribute to effective teamwork in internal engagement situations.
• Support knowledge sharing efforts and continually improve processes so that the work team can capture and leverage knowledge.

Skills and attributes for success

• Awareness of AML framework and products functional knowledge.
• Actively establish & strengthen client (functional heads & key influencers) and internal relationships.
• Determine that the work delivered is of high quality.
• Anticipate and identify engagement related risks and escalate issues as appropriate.
• Assist seniors & managers in developing new methodologies and internal initiatives.
• Create a positive learning culture, coach, counsel and develop junior team members.
• Identify & escalate potential business opportunities for the firm on existing client engagements.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Qualified CA/ MBA
• 8-12 years of post-qualification experience in Financial crime compliance domain as functional or techno-functional consultant
• Good to have certifications like ACAMS
• Good to have Big4 experience

Ideally you’ll also have

• Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills
• Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative
• Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)
• Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.

What working at EY offers

With more than 200,000 clients, 300,000 people globally and 33,000 people in India, EY has become the strongest brand and the most attractive employer in our field, with market-leading growth over competitors. Our people work side-by-side with market-leading entrepreneurs, game-changers, disruptors and visionaries. As an organisation, we are investing more time, technology and money than ever before in skills and learning for our people. At EY, you will have a personalized Career Journey and also the chance to tap into the resources of our career frameworks to better know about your roles, skills and opportunities.

EY is equally committed to being an inclusive employer and we strive to achieve the right balance for our people - enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing our people to build their career as well as focus on their wellbeing. If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.