Managing Principal (Director) - Financial Crime Transformation - AML Investigations, Sanctions & Fraud

Managing Principal / Director level - Financial Crime Transformation AML, Sanctions & Fraud

Location: UK – London or Edinburgh

Practice Area: Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation, Finance Employment

Type: Permanent

Capco is growing our Financial Crime Transformation team, and we’re looking for an experienced Managing Principal/Director to help leading financial services organizations transform their strategies and technologies in the fight against financial crime. If you have deep expertise in AML (Anti-Money Laundering), Sanctions Compliance, Fraud Prevention, and a passion for driving impactful change, we’d love to hear from you.

Why This Role

As a Capco Managing Principal/Director in Financial Crime Transformation, you will be at the forefront of shaping and leading strategic initiatives to tackle financial crime within the financial services sector. You will work with senior stakeholders to design and implement comprehensive transformation strategies that address the evolving risks in AML, Sanctions, and Fraud Prevention.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a senior consulting role, enjoys leading high-impact programs, and is passionate about making a significant difference in the future of financial crime transformation.

What You’ll Do

We are looking to recruit a Managing Principal / Director to lead Sanctions and Fraud transformation within Capco.

Requirements

Successful candidates will lead in advising on financial crime risk management and delivering transformation across Sanctions and Fraud. The role will entail working across all types of financial institutions in the market to help them navigate and deliver against key regulatory requirements and business objectives. This would range across:

• Supporting our clients to achieve compliance with regulatory obligations, including dealing with remediation and response to regulatory reviews e.g. to s166.

Transforming financial crime and fraud operating models and processes through the implementation of new technologies that can bring a holistic and faster approach to identifying and managing financial crime and fraud risk, whilst delivering cost optimisation for our clients.

Finding opportunities to save costs through innovation within existing anti-financial crime and anti-fraud functions.

Assessing, benchmarking, and re-designing financial crime and fraud target operating models and controls, identifying weaknesses and proposing improvements.

Sourcing and implementing technology solutions for Sanctions and Fraud.

Skills & Expertise

• A good understanding of the wider picture of financial crime and fraud including regulatory requirements, risk assessment, KYC and how all components interrelate and support each other across the three lines of defence.
• Financial crime tooling and processes
• Fraud (detection, prevention, response)
• Sanctions regimes, including tooling and processes
  
  

This will be coupled with strong change management experience and prior success, either as a management consultant or within a change role in a financial services institution.

• This role allows you to deliver as part of a long-term strategic partnership with our clients, whilst developing within a forward thinking and entrepreneurial business.
• An understanding of the key market, global and regulatory drivers shaping the financial crime and the wider industry and an ability to articulate these by way of opportunities for consulting firms to support the industry.
• Solution development, showing a clear ability as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to enhance existing propositions, and develop new ones.
• Fulfil a key role in account and proposition development within Market Domains and Key Client Accounts, assisting senior management to increase revenue. Build and maintain strong client relationships within the sector, leveraging proven industry content and delivery capability. Formulate propositions and solutions that meet client requirements in addition to managing and directing pursuit activity. Develop and convert a pipeline of opportunities.
  
  

Why Join Capco

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We Offer

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause and bereavement
  
  

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