The Financial Crime team in the UK works with clients to manage business risk through:
- Responsive and robust investigations driven by situational expertise and analytics
- Remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency
- Transformation projects that help clients emerge stronger from unplanned events
- Working with our clients to change their financial crime functions for the better through enhanced controls, monitoring systems, analytics, improved policy and procedures, more effective risk management, and reduction in costs
You will be expected to work on a variety of client engagements supporting UK and multinational financial services organisations. You will be expected to support clients facing a range of Financial Crime challenges (including AML, Sanctions and Fraud) with a particular focus on Payments Fraud.
The role will include the following:
Managing projects including project delivery, budget and risk
Actively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverables
Developing and owning Financial Crime related services and delivery methodologies, in particular supporting the development of Fraud related services
Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients
Supporting sales through work on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities
Coaching junior team members and reviewing their output
Drafting client deliverables
Essential skills and experience:
Knowledge of current Fraud trends including an awareness of Fraud-related laws and regulations and potential upcoming changes
Knowledge of the different types of Fraud risk that may be relevant to a Financial Institution based on the products / services they offer and who they offer these to
Knowledge of the UK payments ecosystems including the end-to-end processes for card payments and Faster Payments
Awareness of payment fraud detection and prevention technologies and analytical approaches
Customer fraud reimbursement obligations and other claim handling scenarios (e.g. card fraud chargeback processes, APP fraud reimbursement claims handling)
Awareness of counter-Fraud industry action including intelligence sources and collaboration initiatives
Broad awareness of wider Financial Crime issues and challenges, including awareness of AML and Sanctions requirements and challenges
Track record of managing data project delivery and project teams including ability to meet deadlines, overcome challenges, manage stakeholder expectations and produce project deliverables
