Programme Consultant: Financial Crime Transformation Specialist

Contract: 7 months (initial phase, subject to review)
Pay Type: Inside IR35 via Umbrella
Clearance: Valid SC clearance required
Working pattern: 50% onsite in London

About the role

Our client, a leading UK financial institution, is looking for an experienced professional to provide market knowledge and technical expertise to a project reviewing its future transaction screening and monitoring capability. The scope covers sanctions compliance, anti-money laundering, counter terrorist and proliferation financing, and payment fraud prevention across its financial operations.

You will join during the first phase of the project to help define detailed requirements. This phase is expected to last around six months, and the engagement will be reviewed as the project develops.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse the required scope and coverage of transaction monitoring, taking into account the organisation's activities and risk profile
• Evaluate current arrangements, including the operating model, to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement
• Carry out market scanning and research to determine best practice and future trends
• Provide financial crime technical analysis to support key design decisions
• Contribute technical expertise to business cases and statements of requirements
• Prepare for later phases, including potential vendor selection

You will work flexibly as part of a team, and priorities may shift as the project progresses.

Essential experience

You must have recent, hands-on technical experience of financial crime transformation projects within banks, across fraud, money laundering and sanctions, including detailed experience in:

• The current software market and the future implications of AI
• Enterprise-wide risk assessment
• Designing bespoke customer risk assessment models
• Defining screening and monitoring rules and typologies to meet specific risk profiles
• Validating and re-optimising financial crime business processes and end-to-end alert handling operating models

You will also demonstrate

• Strong banking and payments knowledge, particularly correspondent banking and Swift messaging
• Understanding of international legal and regulatory financial crime requirements across sanctions, AML, counter terrorist and proliferation financing, and payment fraud prevention
• Familiarity with best practice for complex change projects
• Knowledge of best practice in model management and governance
• The ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders across Financial Crime, Technology, Risk, Legal and Procurement

If this role is of interest to you, and you currently have an active SC Clearance, please apply now!

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