Financial Crime - AML Technology Specialist - Senior Manager

Job description

In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients - working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.

We put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises - from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency. Our teams work on iconic deals with national and global clients as well as operating and investing in businesses, new ventures and entrepreneurs in our local market and communities. It's both a responsibility and a privilege to guide our clients through moments that matter deeply to them. Our breadth of clients in an ever-changing market means we need to be agile - responding when we need to, in a way that really makes a difference.

We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate. The insight we create, coupled with the innovative tools and methodologies we use to access and evaluate the data that matters, contributes to the success of our clients in all Deals situations. We encourage our clients to think more broadly - connecting their actions today with their successes tomorrow. We help our clients throughout the Deals lifecycle to create lasting value for their businesses.

Each of our key areas within Deals, delivers services to the market individually or together by combining our specialists to provide comprehensive client solutions.

About Our Team:

PwC is strengthening its capabilities in its Financial Services Risk & Regulation as our clients face significant shifts in the regulatory environment. A core component of our FS risk & regulatory practice is the Financial Crimes Unit (FCU). The FCU brings together a mix set of capabilities to help clients with investigations, remediation, transform and managed services.

To meet this growing demand, we are significantly investing in our Financial Crimes Unit in the UK and globally. The FCU in the UK works with clients to manage business risk through responsive and robust investigations driven by analytics, remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency and transformation projects that aim to change client's financial crime functions for the better through monitoring systems, advanced analytics, improved policy and procedures, and reduction in costs.

What makes the FCU stand out is our ability to combine a legacy of investigations, with regulatory, policy and procedure expertise, with a consulting focus on transformation for the future and technologists that are a core part of the team structure and delivery model. We also have a number of joint business relationships with the key financial crime technology vendors, which form part of our client solutions and investments.

We are currently looking for experienced senior managers with expertise in AML technologies and strong analytical background to join our growing FCU. We have ambitious plans and are looking for individuals who can develop and build our go-to-market Financial Crime propositions and excel in client delivery.

We support our clients with a range of services:
Current state assessment, implementing and optimising Sanctions screening solutions and the associated alert handling processes
Current state assessment, implementing and optimising AML transaction monitoring systems' components (e.g. detection scenarios, segmentation logic, threshold setting and tuning)
Current state assessment, implementing and optimising Fraud detection and prevention technologies
Designing, deploying and assisting Financial Crime Intelligence Units (FCIU) in their proactive and thematic research
Assessing and enhancing organisations current and target operating models
Reviewing end-to-end data flow (data quality, data lineage), analysing ETL technologies and discovering key data elements
Designing and developing dashboards, visualisation and metrics
Designing automated and data driven controls to better manage and protect data assets
Validating and testing data and reports submitted to regulatory bodies

Your Main Responsibilities:
Managing projects including project delivery, budget and risk
Actively contributing on client-facing project work, demonstrating domain expertise, and motivating a team to produce the required high standard of deliverables
Developing and owning the AML technology proposition and delivery methodologies
Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients
Supporting sales initiatives through leading on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities

About You
In order to be successful you will need to show ability in most of the following areas:
Detailed understanding of the relevant AML regulations in the UK and US, and ideally in other jurisdictions
Experience implementing and optimising AML technologies (Quantexa, Oracle, Actimize, BAE Systems, etc.)
Advanced data analytics techniques, using platforms such as SQL, SAS, SPSS, R
Experience in visualisation products such as Tableau and QlikView
Advanced MS Excel (VBA and macros)
A wide network of senior client relationships
A proven track record in winning new engagements/clients and identifying new opportunities with existing clients.
The ability to make new contacts, listen to their needs and interpret this to provide new opportunities to assist them

You will also need to have:
Track record of managing data project delivery and project teams including ability to meet deadlines, overcome challenges, manage stakeholder expectations and produce project deliverables
Ability to develop new ideas into structured, deliverable proposals and projects
Ability to identify and address client needs, develop and maintain meaningful client relationships
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
Excellent presentation and report writing skills

Desirable Skills:
Previous experience in an AML role either in Compliance, Operations, MI & Data Analytics, Risk or with a Technology Vendor
Deep knowledge of the UK, European and US financial crime regulatory environment
Understanding of statistical analysis methods and the ability to apply these in the appropriate circumstances
Experience of business analysis tasks and approaches
Data modelling and/or data architecture experience
Experience of the software development lifecycle
Knowledge of different DBMSs (DataBase Management System) and ETL technologies

Deals
Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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