Economic Crime Manager

Overview

Our client, a leading accountancy and business advisory company, is leading for a Financial Crime Manager to join them as a result of continued growth

As a Managerwithin the Economic Crime team, you will support and lead the delivery of financial crime compliance engagements across our portfolio of clients with a particular focus on payments/e-money institutions. You will cover the disciplines of anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud prevention, market abuse, anti-bribery and corruption, and tax evasion. In addition, you will play a key role in assisting the team with developing their financial crime offering and working methods within this sector, including leading business development and growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in the delivery of independent reviews by assessing and evaluating clients' current financial crime compliance framework against regulatory requirements and expectations, including:
  • Governance and oversight arrangements (governance structure, three lines of defence model and management information)
  • Risk management (risk appetite statement, business-wide risk assessment, customer risk assessment)
  • Due diligence (customer/enhanced due diligence, initial customer screening)
  • Ongoing monitoring (transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, ongoing customer screening, payment screening)
  • Training (strategy/plan, material content, attendance monitoring)
• Deliver, including writing and providing quality assurance on, clear and concise reports representing the output of engagements to be received by the client, as well as third parties such as the client's regulator, banking partner, auditors etc.
• Provide verbal and written recommendations to clients on how to enhance their financial crime controls to meet regulatory requirements and industry practice.
• Lead teams in the delivery of creating and enhancing clients' financial crime systems and controls, including:
  • Uplifting financial crime policies and procedures to be in line with regulatory requirements and expectations
  • Conducting business-wide risk assessments, using quantitative and qualitative analysis to support accurate identification and assessment of inherent risks
  • Designing and delivering bespoke financial crime training based on the client's size, business model and risk profile

Requirements

• Extensive experience in financial crime compliance, with a payments/e-money institution, either in-house at a firm, a regulator/supervisor or another consultancy.
• Passionate about supporting clients with their financial crime frameworks to support the mitigation of financial crime risk.
• Good knowledge and experience of some/all of the team's strategic sectors (financial services, betting and gaming, real estate, crypto and legal) and the inherent financial crime risks which lie within these sectors.
• Interest in learning, upskilling and expanding knowledge and skillset into broader sectors through undertaking diverse projects and receiving on-the-job coaching.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to lead multiple projects and deadlines, prioritising engagements where needed, and independently managing own workload successfully.
• Experience of writing and conducting quality assurance on detailed reports, with clear, concise, cohesive and rational assessments, adapting the tone and style based on the recipient(s).
• Experience of contributing to and leading strategic initiatives to support the growth of a team, including identifying and pursuing new opportunities in the market.
• Ability to consider and confirm understanding of the unique needs and perspectives of others and act on the opportunities this insight offers.
• Experience of considering risks and identifying the root cause(s) of problems/issues to support the improvement of future processes/controls.
• Enjoy working in a close team environment, involved in great team spirit by bringing energy, enthusiasm and facilitation of learning.
• Experience of coaching and managing junior team members by providing feedback to enable them to understand what is expected in role and monitor progress towards objectives and targets.
• Ability to collaborate with others outside the team to build and develop client relationships beyond the Economic Crime Advisory team.
• Experience of developing ideas to support effective and efficient engagement management.
• A positive approach to quality risk management.