Looking for a meaty financial crime role where you can lead projects, strengthen frameworks and make a visible impact during a period of regulatory change?
We’re hiring an experienced Financial Crime Compliance Consultant to join a well-established investment management firm on a 9-month fixed term contract. This role has been created to support heightened regulatory expectations, evolving financial crime risks and a busy programme of business change.
Sitting between Analyst and Deputy Head level, you’ll have real autonomy to own defined workstreams, lead project deliverables and apply your expertise across framework development, risk assessments and complex advisory work.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading or supporting financial crime workstreams for new products, markets, business lines and third-party relationships
- Assessing financial crime risks linked to operational change and recommending pragmatic mitigants
- Drafting and enhancing financial crime policies, procedures, controls and governance materials
- Conducting gap analyses across AML, sanctions, fraud, EDD, PEPs, screening and ABC frameworks
- Supporting financial crime risk assessments, MI, dashboards and country risk analysis
- Providing risk-based advisory support on onboarding, products and jurisdictions
- Reviewing complex sanctions, PEP and fraud alerts and overseeing quality of Analyst output
- Conducting enhanced due diligence and supporting investigations and SAR recommendations
- Contributing to training and providing informal coaching to junior team members
What we’re looking for
- Experience in financial crime, AML or compliance within financial services
- Strong project experience, including business change or third-party onboarding
- Proven ability to draft high-quality documentation and conduct gap and risk assessments
- Solid working knowledge of AML/CTF, sanctions, EDD and financial crime frameworks
- Comfortable working independently, managing priorities and delivering to deadlines
- Asset management experience and professional qualifications (ICA, CAMS) are a plus
If you’re a financial crime professional who enjoys structure, analysis and delivery and you’re looking for a hands-on interim role with real substance we’d love to hear from you.