Financial Services - Investigations & Compliance - Fraud Senior - London

Financial Services - Investigations & Compliance - Fraud Senior - London

Location: London

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 4 Sept 2026

Requisition ID: 1742021

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FSO Financial Crime & Forensics – Investigations and Compliance

The opportunity

In Assurance at EY,we empower you to thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment. As a key player in our assurance practice, you'll engage with diverse clients, providing critical insights that drive their success. We offer a wealth of career opportunities, from hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies to tailored professional development programs. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring that every team member feels valued and inspired to reach their full potential. Discover your future with us and be part of a team that makes a difference!Financial Crime & Forensics is part of EY’s Financial Services practice: we work closely with financial services clients and regulators to help prevent, investigate and remediate fraud and financial crime along with other regulatory risks and issues.

Our banking and wider Financial Services clients are increasingly requesting our support with reacting to changes in the current fraud landscape. Our dedicated Investigations & Compliance team supports them in the aftermath of fraud or financial crime events, to proactively prepare for future events and with regulatory issues. Join us and you will work on challenging projects in a rapidly growing team, accelerating your career within an international and supportive environment. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

The role

As a Financial Crime & Forensics Senior, you will technically contribute to client engagements and internal projects, delivering work of a high quality for review by more senior colleagues. An important part of your role will be actively establishing, maintaining and strengthening internal and external relationships. You will also identify and elevate potential business opportunities for EY on existing engagements. Similarly, you will anticipate and identify risks and inform senior members of the team about significant issues. As an influential member of the team, you’ll help to create a positive learning culture.

Within the Financial Crime & Forensics team you will work on the execution of a variety of projects including investigations, financial crime framework reviews, risk assessments, claims and disputes, fraud and financial crime prevention, and compliance programme development within the banking and financial services sector.

Required skills and experience

• Deep knowledge of the current UK fraud landscape
• Experience of working in fraud strategy or operations
• Strong academic record including a degree (in any subject)
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Assertive and confident interpersonal skills
• Ability to simultaneously handle diverse and pressing assignments and sensitive and adversarial situations
• Ability to think critically with very good attention to detail
• Being comfortable working both independently and in a team

Ideally you will also have

• Experience of working in the banking sector
• Professional accountancy or other financial qualification such as ICA, CFE or CAMS

What we look for

We’re interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. If you are serious about forensics and enthusiastic about solving our clients’ most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer you

At EY,we’lldevelop you with future-focusedskills andequip you with world-class experiences.We’llempower you in a flexibleenvironment, andfuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams.

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