Financial Crime Associate Director

Would you like to be an integral part of a fast growing, agile and dynamic financial crime team?

Forvis Mazars is looking for a passionate financial crime professional to join our financial crime team, within our established and constantly growing Banking Risk Consulting Services team, where you will focus on provide support to both regulated (predominantly but not exclusively Financial Services) and non-regulated firms across a number of areas, including anti-money laundering (AML), counter terrorist financing (CTF) and proliferation financing (PF); sanctions; bribery & corruption; fraud; tax evasion and market abuse.

You will work alongside a diverse and experienced group where your personal development is at the forefront of our culture.

This is an exciting role, with ample career progression and professional development opportunities, working on a variety of high-profile financial crime engagements, providing experience across a range of sectors and developing a number of different skill sets. Our typical assignments include:

• Supporting firms with regulatory driven reviews including Skilled Person Reviews (s166)
• Providing financial crime compliance strategy and program advisory support
• Sanctions compliance reviews and look back investigations
• Independent assessments of financial crime frameworks (policies, procedures and controls)
• Financial Crime Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) design and delivery
• Customer Risk Assessment model design, testing and implementation
• Financial Crime compliance and remediation programme design, delivery and assurance
• Financial Crime operating model assessment and redesign
• Financial Crime training design, delivery and assessment

Job Role

As an Associate Director, you will play a key role in growing our business by helping to develop existing and identify new services. Day to day work covers a wide range of tasks, both client focused and those helping us to grow our financial crime services and team such as participating in business development activities.

You will:

• be skilled in spotting opportunities in the market to support existing and potential clients, with a passion for developing solutions that address our client's needs.
• help drive efficient working practices and act as a role model in developing our people.
• have the opportunity to work alongside our practitioners in Financial Services consulting and work with our technology and data practitioners to develop our services.

As a member of this busy and growing team you will be instrumental in ensuring that client expectations are met through the provision of quality client deliverables within an agreed budget and timescale. In addition, you will be actively involved in the growth and development of the financial crime team, including participating in business development activities and contributing to the development of junior team members.

As an Associate Director the focus of your role will include:

• Lead and manage financial crime assignments.
• Taking responsibility for the identification and pursuit of opportunities.
• Developing best in class approaches to our assignments.
• Working with the financial crime leads to help shape and execute the financial crime growth plan.
• Developing capabilities to take to market, with a focus on financial services. .
• Playing an active role in business development, through hosting events, undertaking speaker opportunities and putting together thought leadership.
• Working with the Financial Crime leadership team to oversee and manage the financial performance of the team.
• Taking a responsibility for the delivery of high-quality client deliverables, including reports.
• Having a proactive approach to building your knowledge of financial crime issues and trends.
• Actively identifying and pursuing opportunities to learn and develop your technical knowledge and consultancy skills through training, coaching and on-the-job learning opportunities.
• Ensure the team's approach and deliverables comply with industry regulations.

Skills and Experience

We are looking for a financial crime professional who is ambitious and team-orientated, with a passion for working within a financial crime team, delivering outstanding work product with a high attention to detail, and an adaptable and collaborative team player. The following skills and experience would be beneficial but are not all essential as we will support you with your development:

• Proven track record developing financial crime solutions for regulated firms, in a relevant financial crime/governance/compliance/risk/internal audit role.
• Proven leadership and management skills.
• Experience of delivering workstreams within financial crime Skilled Person Reviews (s166).
• A professional financial crime related qualification e.g. ICA, ACAMS.
• Deep understanding of the UK, EU and global regulatory framework and developments regarding financial crime compliance. Specifically, those set out in the FCA Handbook and relating to AML/CTF/PF; sanctions; bribery and corruption; fraud; tax evasion and market abuse risks.
• Ideally a deep specialism in the delivery of services across two or more of the above financial crime compliance areas.
• Strong assignment/project management skills, including an ability to clearly plan and track scope, timescales and budget.
• A high level of attention to detail and strong ability to analyse data/information to identify patterns, anomalies and potential financial crime risks and apply a methodical approach.
• A sceptical mindset and sound judgement, alongside problem solving skills.
• Takes ownership of assigned tasks and adopts a proactive approach.
• Time management skills, including the ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• A passion for and the ability to build long lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal) to articulate findings and prepare reports.
• Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity and integrity.
• Actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge.
• Demonstrates drive and commitment to self-development and continuous learning.
• Flexible, adaptable and professional approach to work and clients.
• IT proficiency across the MS365 suite of products.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here.

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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