Financial Crime Executive

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 (“FC”) team, where you will focus on providing support to both regulated (Financial Services) and non-regulated firms across various areas, including:

• Anti-Money laundering (AML), Counter terrorist financing (CTF) and Proliferation Financing (PF)
• Fraud
• Sanctions
• Bribery & Corruption
• Tax Evasion
• Market Abuse

Role & Responsibilities

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 diverse skill sets.

Our typical assignments include:

• Supporting firms with regulatory driven reviews including Skilled Person Reviews (s166).
• 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.
• Operational effectiveness testing of financial crime controls.
• Financial Crime compliance and remediation programme design, delivery and assurance.
• Financial Crime operating model assessment and redesign.
• Financial Crime training design, delivery and assessment.

As an Executive, you will assist with, and learn about, a variety of tasks, including:

• Performing gap analyses of an organisation's approach to dealing with financial crime risks against regulatory requirements, including those relating to anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption and market abuse.
• Supporting managers with fact-finding interviews for financial crime assignments.
• Supporting the independent assessment of financial crime frameworks (policies, procedures, controls).
• Helping to design and deliver Financial Crime Training for our clients.
• Undertaking quantitative analysis which will feed directly into our findings/ client deliverables (and, in some cases, expert evidence).
• Undertaking desktop research and collate information for team members.
• Assisting senior colleagues with preparing tables, charts, exhibits and appendices for inclusion in reports.
• Contributing to the efficient operation of each project assignment by proactively providing support to senior colleagues.
• Assisting in the design of project plans and working papers for financial crime assignments.
• Assisting in the preparation of first draft deliverables for, and helping present these to, our clients.
• Contributing to non-chargeable work in the team, including:
• the preparation of client proposals
• helping to coordinate and attending financial crime events at our offices
• developing contacts across the financial crime related sector
• drafting articles for our website and for media
• identifying opportunities to use technology to better serve our clients and perform our work more efficiently.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

The FC team has built a strong reputation in the market for the high quality of work it produces. This is a result of the FC team being comprised of individuals with a commitment to quality in every aspect of their work.

Specifically, our team members demonstrate:

• Attention to detail.
• Analytical skills - the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.
• Proactiveness and enthusiasm.
• Interpersonal skills - the ability to build client and colleague relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.
• Credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Commitment to self-development & learning.
• Actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge.
• Demonstrates drive and commitment to self-development.
• Professional approach to work and clients i.e. professional appearance, respect for individuals, and ethical conduct.
• Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.

Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. We balance your academic results alongside the aptitude assessment within our recruitment process to ensure that you will be successful in your role with us.

Learning & Development

We offer a diverse range of experiences, with prestigious clients and dynamic projects across a range of sectors and geographies. We offer an excellent technical grounding and real responsibility from the start, with early exposure to clients and partners. We have a culture of coaching, feedback, mentorship and one-to-one support, so you will learn from working closely with accessible colleagues and leaders who have so much to share.

Most importantly, we give our people the tools and support they need to define their own career path and realise their full potential. You will be supported by a People Manager to keep your career and aspirations on track. You will also be allocated a buddy, who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading 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.

Visit forvismazars.co/uk to learn more.