• Are you a senior professional with experience working within professional services in the area of AML / CTF?
• Do you have experience in AML/CFT regulations and underlying operating models (systems, processes and controls) and establishing key frameworks requirements from business risk assessments through to customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring and overall compliance?
• Are you interested in joining a firm that delivers award winning training and opportunities for career progression?

Role

We are currently seeking qualified candidates to be considered for the position of Risk Consulting Manager in our Risk & Regulatory Consulting practice. This is an exciting, multi-disciplinary consulting opportunity with a primary focus on providing both risk and regulatory advisory services to clients in the Banking, Asset Management and Insurance industries.

 Our areas of focus include assisting client to interpret, embed and /or remediation its requirements in respect of anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions compliance, counter-terrorist financing, anti-bribery and corruption, and financial intelligence matters. We assist our clients to understand their regulatory requirements, assess how their organisations’ systems, process and controls meet those requirements and develop and implement remediation plans to ensure on-going first line and second compliance. This also incorporates consideration of the optimum target operating model required for the underlying firm as well as the latest technology enablers to best suit our client’s overall needs and business strategy.

 In addition to this, you can expect to work as part of multi-disciplinary engagement teams to assist our clients with:

• Process, systems and controls – Assist our clients with establishing an effective governance, risk, and control environment by evaluating controls, business and technology alignment, regulatory requirements, risk processes, metrics and reporting, and risk frameworks as it pertains to their underlying end-to-end AML / CTF requirements
• Performance Improvement - helps clients better align their organizations' operating infrastructures with their strategies and focussing on the assessment and redesign of business, risk, and control processes and the refinement of AML operating models. 
• Technology enablement – we assist our client to assess and implement the right technology to supports it underlying AML processes and operations, including embedding key enablers such as process mining, data mining, natural language programming, workflow capabilities and early warning triggers

We are specifically interested in hearing from experienced AML or Compliance professionals working in the financial services sector who have an interest to move into a consulting environment. 

Requirements

• A professional accountancy (Chartered Accountant or equivalent) is preferred but not mandatory
• An AML/ Financial Crime qualification is preferred (E.g. ACAMs).
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience with at least 2+ at management level.
• Strong experience and understanding of AML/CTF, sanctions programs and risks & controls within financial crime 
• Previous experience working on AML design and implementation including systems, policies, processes, procedures, governance related issues and/or end-to-end operating models
• A solid understanding of the legislative and regulatory environment and an ability to understand and interpret new/existing regulatory requirements.
• Excellent team leading, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Previous experience/training in professional services is a distinct advantage.

Day to day activities will include :

• Assessing the effectiveness of AML/CFT frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, systems and controls and making recommendations for enhancement against KPMG methodology and across the three lines of defense
• Undertaking AML/CFT Business Risk Assessments through gaining a solid understanding of the ML/TF risks present in our clients businesses, (including considering new and emerging typologies) and the effectives of their controls to mitigate these risks, in line with regulatory expectations
• Assessing the lineage of policies, process, IT and data to support effective Customer risk management and appropriate transaction monitoring and reporting. 
• Support the design and implementation of automation projects and system updates undertaken within our clients teams. 
• Manage and assess impact of operational implementation of technology and policy change and drives continuous improvements to quality of data and client service levels
• Supporting clients in advance of or post regulatory inspection for AML/CFT
• Continually develop expertise in all area of the industry