Financial Crime Technology Manager in London

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We are looking for a Manager to join our growing Financial Crime Transformation & Optimisation capability. You will work across AML, sanctions and fraud, helping financial services clients improve financial crime operating models, processes and controls and deliver regulatory and technology-driven change. This is a hands-on transformation role. You will manage workstreams from analysis and design through to implementation, work closely with client teams across Financial Crime, Operations, Technology and Change, and manage junior team members delivering the underlying analysis and project activity.

The role would suit someone who understands financial crime but also enjoys solving operational problems: understanding how a process works today, identifying what needs to change and helping the client implement a better way of working.

As a Manager within our Financial Crime Transformation & Optimisation team, you will:

• Manage workstreams within financial crime transformation, remediation and optimisation programmes.
• Analyse existing operating models, processes, controls and workflows and identify areas for improvement.
• Design future-state processes, controls, governance and operating-model components.
• Support implementation of regulatory remediation and responses to regulatory reviews.
• Work across areas including KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, investigations and case management.
• Assess how technology, data, automation and AI can improve financial crime processes and controls.
• Develop process maps, operating-model designs, requirements, implementation plans and management information.
• Coordinate activity across Financial Crime, Operations, Technology, Data and Change teams.
• Manage project plans, actions, dependencies, risks and client deliverables.
• Run client workshops and present analysis and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Manage and review the work of Consultants and Assistant Managers.
• Support proposals, pitches, client research and development of new propositions and methodologies.
• Contribute lessons and reusable materials from engagements back into the wider Financial Crime practice.

You will have experience delivering financial crime, regulatory change or transformation work within consulting or financial services. You should bring:

• Good knowledge of AML, sanctions and/or fraud, with practical experience in at least one area.
• Experience delivering transformation, remediation, process improvement or technology change.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to move from identifying an issue to designing a practical solution.
• Experience mapping and redesigning processes, controls or operating models.
• An understanding of financial crime technology and data and how they support operational processes.
• Experience managing workstreams and coordinating activity across different client teams.
• Confidence running workshops and working directly with client stakeholders.
• Strong written skills and the ability to turn analysis into clear client deliverables.
• Experience supervising and developing junior team members.
• An interest in how automation and AI can improve financial crime delivery.
• Experience of regulatory remediation, financial crime technology implementation, operational improvement or large-scale change programmes would be particularly relevant.

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