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.

This position is designed for professionals with approximately 3 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.

Skills & Experience

• We encourage applications from candidates with experience in Financial Crime risk management, ideally those with regulatory backgrounds.
• Experience in AML, CTF, CPF, sanctions, fraud, market abuse or broader financial crime compliance.
• Background from the FCA, another regulator, or a financial services compliance/monitoring, assurance or audit function is highly advantageous.
• Experience assessing high-risk customers, complex structures, Source of Wealth / Source of Funds, and beneficial ownership is strongly preferred.
• Understanding of financial crime control frameworks, including testing, QA / QC concepts, issue identification, and remediation tracking.
• Strong Excel skills, including filtering, pivot tables, lookups, reconciliations, and structured review of datasets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to assess conflicting information and document sound conclusions.
• Clear and articulate written and verbal communication skills, you’ll often be drafting reports.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively with a degree of ambiguity.
• A collaborative mindset, proactive approach and a genuine appetite for learning.
• Additional language skills are a plus!

What We Offer

At HKA we recognise that our people are critical to our ongoing success. Our priority is to provide an inclusive and collaborative culture aimed at providing the best opportunities for our people to thrive and develop in their chosen career path. We operate a flexible working pattern both in terms of hours and location and are happy with flexible remote working.

Our Global Recruitment team is committed to providing an authentic candidate experience for all those who take the time to apply to HKA. We are committed to providing an efficient and insightful recruitment process giving candidates a true reflection of life at HKA.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

HKA has a thriving ED&I committee working hard to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment for a truly diverse set of employees. We are committed as a business on the continued improvement of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy. All HKA employment decisions are firstly made on merit and shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or any other basis in compliance with local legislation.