Managing Consultants - Financial Crime Compliance

HKA is a leading global consultancy in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, expert witness and litigation support. We anticipate, investigate and resolve complex challenges by harnessing world‑leading multi‑disciplinary expertise and experience. As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide. Our experts have testified across the globe on many of the largest quantum, delay, engineering and commercial damages matters.

As Part Of The HKA Team You Can Expect:

• Global Impact: Work on complex financial crime cases across multiple markets and jurisdictions, supporting projects that influence regulatory 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, 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:

As a Managing Consultant, you’ll play a key role in supporting financial crime risk management reviews, investigations, and advisory engagements for clients across banking, FinTechs, payments, insurance and wealth management.

• Anti‑Money Laundering (AML)
• Counter‑Terrorist Financing (CTF)
• Counter‑Proliferation Financing (CPF)
• Sanctions
• Fraud
• Market Abuse
• Wider conduct and governance issues

You’ll work in a dynamic, intellectually challenging environment, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and supporting engagements that have meaningful regulatory and commercial outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Conducting analysis of financial crime frameworks, testing controls, systems and governance structures.
• Supporting investigations into suspected AML, sanctions, fraud, or conduct breaches.
• Conducting file reviews, data analysis, and document assessments for regulatory and internal investigations.
• Drafting clear, concise sections of reports, including factual summaries and analytical findings.
• Working directly with experts, legal teams, and client teams to deliver robust, defensible output.
• Contributing to business development activity and attending key industry or networking events.

Skills And Experience:

• Approximately 3 years’ experience in Financial Crime risk management, ideally with regulatory background (e.g., FCA), consultants, or industry experience in compliance, monitoring, advisory, or investigations within financial services.
• 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 function is highly advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Clear and articulate written and verbal communication skills; you’ll often be drafting reports.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and effectively prioritise.
• A collaborative mindset, proactive approach and a genuine appetite for learning.
• Additional language skills are a plus!

If you’re looking to build a meaningful career in financial crime risk management, supported by subject‑matter experts and fuelled by exposure to high‑impact global matters, HKA offers an exceptional platform to grow.

ED&I At HKA: 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. Please visit our careers page for further information or feel free to ask our recruitment team for additional details. 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.