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About the Role

As a Financial Crime Consultant, you will support clients in understanding, managing and mitigating financial crime risks. You will work across a broad range of engagements covering anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, customer due diligence, governance, risk management, regulatory change and financial crime transformation. You will help clients assess risks, enhance frameworks, improve controls and deliver practical solutions that meet regulatory expectations while supporting business objectives. Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to client deliverables, facilitate workshops, undertake analysis, conduct research and support senior stakeholders in addressing complex financial crime challenges.

Responsibilities

Support the delivery of financial crime advisory, transformation and regulatory engagements.
Assess financial crime risks and control frameworks across multiple financial crime disciplines.
Review and develop policies, standards, procedures and governance arrangements.
Conduct research and analysis relating to financial crime regulation, industry developments and emerging risks.
Support financial crime risk assessments, gap analyses and framework reviews.
Contribute to operating model, process and control design initiatives.
Help clients respond to regulatory change and evolving supervisory expectations.
Produce high-quality reports, presentations and client deliverables.
Support and facilitate client workshops and stakeholder interviews.
Collaborate with colleagues across risk, compliance, transformation, digital and data and operations disciplines.

Requirements

Understanding of financial crime risks, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, bribery and corruption, and fraud.
Knowledge of financial crime regulatory and legal frameworks.
Experience within financial services, consulting, regulatory or related environments.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to interpret information, identify risks and develop practical recommendations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience producing high-quality reports, presentations and client-facing deliverables.
Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to work effectively in teams and adapt to changing client requirements.
Exposure to regulatory reviews, transformation programmes or regulatory change initiatives.
Experience working with or supporting regulators.
Knowledge of UK financial crime regulations and guidance.
Experience across multiple financial crime disciplines including AML, sanctions, fraud, and bribery and corruption.
Understanding of financial crime technology, data or analytics solutions.
Professional qualifications such as ICA, ACAMS, CFE or equivalent.
Intellectual curiosity and a willingness to learn.
A broad interest across multiple financial crime disciplines rather than a narrow specialism.
Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality.
Confidence communicating with a range of stakeholders.
A pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.
The ability to balance regulatory expectations with practical business outcomes.
Applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Applicants must be a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years.

Skills

Financial crime advisory
Transformation
Regulatory engagements
Risk assessment
Control frameworks
Policy development
Standards development
Procedure development
Governance arrangements
Research
Analysis
Operating model design
Process design
Control design
Regulatory change response
Report production
Presentation creation
Client deliverable production
Workshop facilitation
Stakeholder interviews
Collaboration
AML
Sanctions
Fraud
Bribery and corruption
Customer due diligence
Governance
Risk management
Data analysis
Technology solutions
Analytics solutions

Location

UK
Ireland
US
Netherlands

Work Type

Full-time
Contract

Experience Level

Consultant

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
Generous company pension scheme
Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
Annual performance-based bonus
PA share ownership
Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

About the Company

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Equal Opportunity

We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]