Managing Consultant – Financial Crime Compliance

HKA is expanding its Financial Crime Compliance practice and is seeking ambitious, intellectually curious Managing Consultants to join our growing London team. If you are looking for a role that combines regulatory insight, analytical challenge, client exposure, and accelerated development, this is an opportunity to build your career in a fast-growing specialist consultancy.

As part of the financial crime compliance team you can expect:

• Global Impact: Work on complex financial crime cases across multiple markets and jurisdictions, supporting projects that influence regulatory and investigative outcomes and industry standards.
• Learn from Industry Leaders: Learn from senior practitioners with extensive regulatory, enforcement, and advisory experience, including former regulators and subject‑matter experts, who will support your development.
• Collaborative Culture: We value integrity, sound judgement, critical thinking, and a team-based approach to problem solving. You'll be part of a tight‑knit group where ideas are heard, and your development is prioritised.
• Career Acceleration: As a scaling consultancy, we offer accelerated opportunities for responsibility, advancement, and leadership. If you’re ambitious, you’ll have space to grow.

The Opportunity: This position is designed for professionals with approximately 3–5 years of experience in financial crime compliance, investigations, or related advisory work within regulated financial services. We are particularly interested in individuals with backgrounds in banking, payments, FinTech, insurance, wealth management, or relevant regulatory bodies. The role is best suited to candidates who already possess a solid foundation in financial crime and can contribute effectively with minimal supervision. It is less appropriate for those seeking their first move into financial crime or transitioning from unrelated fields.

As a Managing Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in delivering financial crime risk assessments, investigations, and advisory projects for clients across banking, FinTech, payments, insurance, and wealth management sectors. You will bring strong regulatory knowledge, analytical capability, investigative skills, and clear communication to engagements involving:

• Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
• Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF)
• Counter-Proliferation Financing (CPF)
• Sanctions
• Fraud
• Market Abuse
• Due diligence, investigations, and financial crime governance and control assessments.

You will work in a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and supporting projects with significant regulatory and commercial impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analysing financial crime frameworks, and testing controls, systems, and governance arrangements.
• Supporting investigations into suspected AML breaches, sanctions violations, fraud, or misconduct.
• Conducting file reviews, data analysis, and document assessments for regulatory, internal, and advisory matters.
• Performing CDD and EDD reviews, including assessing Source of Wealth, Source of Funds, beneficial ownership, and ownership/control structures.
• Assisting with sanctions‑related work, including screening analysis, exposure assessments, escalation reviews, and red flag identification.
• Reviewing policies, procedures, management information, and datasets to highlight control gaps, inconsistencies, and remediation needs.
• Drafting clear and concise report sections, including factual summaries, analytical findings, and actionable recommendations.
• Collaborating closely with subject‑matter experts, legal teams, and client stakeholders to produce robust and defensible outputs.
• Contributing to business development efforts, market research, and participation in key industry and networking events.