Financial Crime Consultant

Description:

A boutique financial crime consultancy is looking for a Consultant to join its growing team. The firm supports a diverse mix of regulated clients across financial services, delivering work across advisory, business-wide risk assessments, financial crime governance reviews and policy development.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys a fast-paced consulting environment, likes solving complex problems, and wants real ownership of their work. You’ll be working alongside a group of highly experienced, technically strong financial crime professionals.

The business is performing very well and continues to win a strong pipeline of work, so there’s consistent exposure to live projects — no sitting on the bench.

The Role

As a Consultant, you’ll support and lead key workstreams across a range of financial crime engagements, typically working alongside a Senior Consultant. You’ll have a good level of autonomy while contributing to high-quality deliverables and client outcomes.

You will:

• Lead sections of Business-Wide Risk Assessments, governance reviews and wider financial crime risk work
• Conduct risk reviews, regulatory gap analysis and policy reviews (AML, sanctions, KYC, transaction monitoring)
• Interpret legislation and regulatory guidance, applying it to real client scenarios
• Participate in client interviews and stakeholder sessions
• Draft clear, well-structured deliverables for Senior Consultants and Principals
• Work across multiple engagements simultaneously, managing deadlines and expectations
• Contribute to broader work including benchmarking, failure-to-prevent fraud reviews, payments projects and MLRO support

About You

You’ll bring strong financial crime knowledge, solid analytical skills and the ability to work with a good degree of independence. Prior consulting experience (current or previous) is required. Oh, and excellent written and spoken communication is a given as a consultant. Clear, articulate, and engaging.

Key requirements:

• Experience across financial crime (AML, CDD/KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, risk assessments)
• Strong written communication skills — able to produce clear, structured and technically sound outputs
• Good academic background with strong analytical capability
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects at once
• Proactive, driven and detail-focused
• Comfortable working autonomously and delivering under pressure