Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) Manager in London

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Our Client Due Diligence (CDD) practice sits at the heart of our Financial Crime team, supporting banks, payment firms, wealth managers and other regulated institutions across onboarding, remediation and ongoing compliance. Within the practice, our Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) capability handles the most complex and high-risk cases — including PEPs, sanctioned entities, adverse media exposures and multi-jurisdictional corporate structures. We operate a hybrid onshore and offshore delivery model, supported by AI-assisted research and drafting tools, and we are investing in experienced practitioners to drive analytical quality and develop the next generation of EDD capability across the team.

As a Manager in our Enhanced Due Diligence team, you will sit at the analytical heart of our EDD capability — personally owning the assessments you conclude and leading our most complex and sensitive cases. You will exercise expert judgement in weighing evidence, resolving ambiguity and building coherent, fair risk narratives from research, screening and intelligence inputs, so that the Financial Crime Risk Advisory function receives assessments it can rely on. Alongside your own casework, you will provide day-to-day technical direction to our offshore EDD analyst team, setting the analytical standard, directing casework and coaching analysts toward greater capability and independence.

Day to day you will:

• Compile and finalise EDD risk assessments to the EDD Procedure and compilation standards, confirming, correcting and completing AI-drafted content, resolving gaps with offshore input teams, and releasing decision-ready assessments for Financial Crime Risk Advisory.
• Review and conclude assessments routed to the Manager tier under the risk-based review framework, and personally lead the most complex cases — including opaque or multi-layered structures, contested adverse media, identity resolution, sanctions nexus and material insolvency payment cases.
• Where designated as its named owner, maintain the AI drafting accuracy log, including override capture, error categorisation and monthly reporting that feeds the progressive reliance decision.
• Provide day-to-day technical direction to offshore EDD analysts, including case allocation input, live guidance on analytical questions, structured feedback on output and coaching toward conclude authority, working with offshore line management on performance and development.
• Contribute to the EDD training curriculum and competence assessments, working with the GT India Training Coordinator on offshore delivery.
• Maintain compilation procedures, checklists and templates based on live production experience, keeping them aligned to the EDD Procedure and to what the systems actually do.
• Support the development and testing of the AI-assisted drafting capability from the user side, including scenario design, structured feedback on outputs and UAT participation.
• Provide surge capacity for remediation and migration-related EDD populations as directed by the EDD Lead.

Joining us as a Manager in our Enhanced Due Diligence team, the minimum criteria you’ll need is a strong, hands-on EDD or complex KYC production background, with demonstrable experience researching, compiling and writing enhanced due diligence assessments on complex structures. It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box — we’ll help you develop along the way.

• Significant hands-on experience producing and reviewing EDD or complex KYC assessments, covering PEPs, adverse media, sanctions exposure and complex or multi-layered corporate structures, ideally in professional services, banking, corporate intelligence or a specialist EDD provider.
• Precise, evidenced analytical writing ability — the ability to distinguish what evidence shows from what a source asserts, and to construct a coherent, fair risk narrative from fragmentary or conflicting inputs.
• Demonstrable experience leading, coaching or providing technical direction to offshore or junior analyst teams, with a structured approach to feedback and development.
• Comfort working alongside technologists on systems development and testing; a genuine appetite for AI-assisted ways of working is essential, and direct experience of AI-assisted compliance tools is a strong advantage.
• Working knowledge of MLR 2017 and JMLSG guidance; familiarity with the accountancy-sector AMLGAS is an advantage.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage a varied caseload, maintaining quality and consistency across multiple concurrent assessments.

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