Financial Crime Optimisation Manager

at  EY

THE OPPORTUNITY

EY is looking for a Manager to join our Financial Crime Technology Consulting team within our Financial Crime practice. We have large scale plans to expand our already market leading Financial Crime Technology practice and anticipate continued growth throughout the next five years. We need excellent people to join us and be part of our exciting growth strategy. We are a diverse team with a culture of embracing our people for who they are and empowering them to use their voice to help others find theirs.
We are driven by a purpose to detect and disrupt Financial Crime, supporting EY’s NextWave strategy to deliver long-term value to clients, people, and society, we believe we are well positioned to help our clients transform Financial Crime to respond to the challenges they face. This may be through creating the financial crime function of the future, implementing cutting edge innovative technology and data, hosting hackathons, and building assets while focusing on regulatory and customer needs. We need excellent people to join us and be part of our exciting growth strategy.

OUR REQUIREMENTS:

• You will be able to demonstrate project experience and client knowledge gained from professional practise across several the following areas of Financial Crime Technology:
• KYC, Customer Due Diligence and customer risk rating methodology
• Transaction Monitoring
• Name screening, payments screening and adverse media screening
• Financial Crime Target Operating Model
• 5+ years’ related work experience leading teams e.g., Financial Crime change and transformation, Financial Crime IT, Financial Crime project management, Financial Crime systems implementation and optimisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for stakeholder management, report writing, client presentations, and project management.
• Agile experience and/or Scrum Master Certification.
• Financial Crime Certifications such as ICA or ACAMS.
• Experience with process simplification and optimisation.
• Experience with one or more financial crime solution providers.

YOUR SCOPE OF DUTIES:

As a Manager in our Financial Crime Team you will support our services clients across a range of Financial Crime issues and challenges, and enable them to manage their financial crime risks. In addition, you will play a key role in supporting the development of new business opportunities.
Drawing on your industry knowledge and experience, you will provide innovative insights to our clients, adapt methods and practices to fit the operational team and cultural needs and contribute to thought leadership. You will also actively improve operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, in line with EY’s commitment to quality.
Additionally, your role will require you to manage teams or parts of teams on engagements of different sizes and will be under the guidance of Senior Managers and Director. Your leadership will expect you to anticipate and identify risks and raise any issues with them as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you will help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members to assist in their professional development. You will lead by example and act as a role model for our people in the way that you live our values.
You can expect leading class learning and development tailored to your unique interests and motivations. You’ll be given all the skills, knowledge, and opportunities to progress and become ready to build a better working world for our people, our clients and the communities that support us.
EY.AI - in this role, your capabilities are augmented by artificial intelligence. With AI-powered solutions your analyses, insights and innovative ideas will reach a higher level. Starting with a series of training sessions, you will then use EYQ - your virtual assistant, along with other unique tools often available exclusively at EY. We continuously invest in innovation to provide you with a work environment where you can focus on the most interesting aspects of your job and create the best solutions for clients.

CLIENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and deliver Financial Crime engagements.
• Create a compelling future vision and strategy.
• Assist in managing financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking fees, and communicating issues to engagement partners.
• Participate in business development initiatives.
• Build strong internal relationship within the Financial Crime practice and Consulting.

PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop people through effective supervision, coaching, and mentoring.
• Conduct performance reviews and provide performance feedback.
• Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting, retaining and training Financial Crime professionals.