Job Role: Management Consultant – Financial Crime

Location: London / Manchester

Career Level: Consultant (CL9)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, SONG, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We are looking for an experienced Financial Crime Management Consultant to join our London-based team.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

The world around us is changing as everything moves digital, money moves real time and through new technologies and regulation continually evolves. Organisations must continue to innovate to manage their risk. This is where Accenture Risk Consulting comes in, as the world evolves, we are at the forefront of this using cutting edge technologies and advanced analytics advising clients on all aspects of risk everything from fraud & financial crime risk through to Climate Risk.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. 

In our team you will learn:

• How money laundering and other economic crime trends are evolving
• Skills in the latest technologies that support successful financial crime prevention and detection, such as cloud, advanced analytics, Gen AI and Agentic, partnering with wider Accenture teams and ecosystem partners
• How to deliver innovative solutions to tight timelines, working as part of a team in a project delivery capacity
• How to manage some of the most complex and large-scale transformational projects specifically in financial crime prevention and detection.
• How to build and develop your own brand and career working in the Accenture Risk and Compliance team

In this role you will:

• Advise clients on improving financial crime prevention and detection, utilising skills and experience across policy, process, technology, data & analytics and AI
• Work with the latest technologies to solve problems related to economic crime
• Understand and solve complex business problems and present back solutions to stakeholders
• Be agile and agnostic to solutions as you work with different client circumstances and as financial crime threats evolve at an ever-increasing pace
• Have the opportunity to work for global clients with opportunities to travel if you wish
• Write and develop point of views on industry trends
• Support in development of sales proposals and offerings, building commercial and business acumen
• Contribute anti-financial crime SME knowledge to a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
• Contribute to the Risk and Compliance community and build a global network across Accenture teams & clients

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Experience working within a financial crime department (AML, KYC or screening) either in an advisory, analytics, operational or leadership capacity ideally, within a bank or payments organisation
• Understanding of the latest AML regulations and regulatory guidance
• Experience working with anti-financial crime technologies such as Actimize, Quantexa, Fenergo, Symphony AI, etc
• Experience in either delivering, presenting, or using analytics outputs to help inform policy or action against financial crime
• Understanding of how data & analytics can be used to prevent and detect financial crime
• Project delivery experience either as lead or part of project delivery team
• Experience or knowledge of agile delivery methodology including writing or contributing to user stories
• Strong MS office skills, specifically in PowerPoint & Excel
• Presenting complex problems & solutions to senior stakeholders in person and virtually
• Working in a team working to tight and agile deadlines
• Commercial awareness to support commercial engagements and spot market opportunities
• Ability to work across both Technology and Business stakeholders

Set yourself apart:

• Experience in writing points of view or presenting on economic crime trends and latest anti-financial crime technologies
• Experience working on an AML, KYC or sanctions project using Agile delivery methodology
• Experience using data & analytics to solve financial crime problems
• Knowledge of latest payment industry trends and impact on financial crime

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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