Your responsibilities

Our Financial Crime Operations team sits within EY’s broader Financial Crime & Forensics solution. We offer a global, consistent service to our clients delivered through regional and offshore hubs with more than 4,000 operations professionals worldwide. We scale our workforce across geographies based on client requirements and have a flexible model that delivers services on/offshore to balance cost, service levels and language needs. Our team specialises in topics such as:

• Build and run of end to end Financial Crime solutions.
• KYC and customer on-boarding.
• Transaction monitoring.
• Customer screening/payment filtering for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
• AML monitoring and alert investigations.
• Remediation.

Within the team, we have financial crime business and operations specialists who apply a wide range of financial crime knowledge and technical skills to undertake:

• Formation and running of Financial Crime solutions.
• Transformation of end-to-end management of KYC, transaction monitoring and sanctions processes.
• End-to-end transaction monitoring and sanctions screening services, including investigations and escalation reviews.
• Remediation activities, including look back file reviews and alert management.
• Design and operation of technology solutions to automate and enhance financial crime operations covering KYC, transaction monitoring and sanctions.

Our requirements

• Desire to build / develop a career in advising our clients with improvements and industry insight in Financial Crime.
• Strong interest and commitment to understand and develop leading edge financial crime prevention solutions to our industry clients.
• Highly capable, thriving in fast paced environments, where the expectation is to operate with a strong sense of urgency to deliver tangible operational solutions.
• Flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalise these into workable solutions which can then be delivered.
• Appreciation of EY’s solutions / go to market abilities and how these service client needs
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills.
• Strong team player and an entrepreneurial outlook with a “no task too small” attitude; willing to roll up your sleeves and work as part of a team and equally comfortable delegating and leading teams / engagements.
• A methodical, structured, organised, and consistent approach to your leadership style, with a can-do attitude and willingness to lead by doing.
• 10 years’ + experience in large scale and complex programme delivery covering Compliance and financial crime transformation and remediation, preferably at a large financial services institution or a consulting firm.
• Experience in leading high performing teams and delivering large-scale projects in the context of financial crime transformation or remediations covering AML (KYC and/or Transaction Monitoring), Sanctions, or Screening.
• End to End programme lifecycle experience covering planning, design, mobilisation and oversight of financial crime transformation and remediation programmes. Broad experience covering technology, regulatory and business change.
• Strong track record of delivering professional service engagements, programmes and projects involving complex and multi-year and multi-million-pound solution delivery.
• Proven ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, rapidly changing environment.
• Strong track record of selling consulting services and adding value in the sales process.
• Ability to develop, foster and maintain effective working relationships with diverse group of people within the organisation as well as with external stakeholders.
• Experience in managing and delivering programmes across countries and cultures and navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Proven experience in anticipating, identifying, and managing risks in programme delivery.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage finances and delivery plans in to deliver client engagements on-time and on-budget.

Optional

• A strong network across the financial services sector, including Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance or Asset management.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build meaningful relationships and to develop a positive influence both with clients and internally. Experience dealing with C-suite stakeholders.
• Knowledge of systems and tools used for KYC, TM and Sanctions screening case management and client KYC portals.
• Familiarity with industry standards for end-to-end compliance risk management practices.
• Familiarity with key financial services products and instruments.
• A background in consultancy, as well as industry experience.
• A financial crime compliance qualification (e.g. CAMS, ICA diploma).

What we look for:

We are interested to hear from people with the right attitude for the job! That’s naturally entrepreneurial people that feed on the energy of a thriving global team. You’ll need a balance of technical and analytical skills, a creative approach to work and strong communication skills. If you’ve got big ideas, as well as the confidence to voice them, this role is for you.