Financial Crime - Senior Associate

In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.

Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises - from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency.

We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate.

Restructuring & Forensics

In Restructuring & Forensics we focus on supporting our clients through the Protect and Recover stages of the business cycle. We combine restructuring services such as financial restructuring, liability restructuring and corporate simplification with Digital and Forensic Investigations and Financial Crime teams. We support clients in stress or distress situations, seeking to support them to respond, restructure and transform, as well as prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues.. We could be involved in any one, or all of these types of engagements.

About the team

PwC's Financial Crime team in the UK works with our clients to manage business risk, changing their financial crime functions through enhanced controls, improved policy and procedures, more effective risk management, improved operations as well as remediation of past deficiencies to help clients emerge stronger from unplanned events.

About the role

In line with our current growth plans, we are looking to recruit a Senior Associate who is experienced within the anti-financial crime domain. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients, primarily financial institutions, delivering on both large and small engagements. The team brings together a mix of capabilities to help clients prevent, respond to, and remediate a wide range of Financial Crime threats, risks, and complex issues.

You’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with specialist experience, helping our clients deal with complex issues and navigate large programmes of work. You will be responsible for supporting client facing engagements as well as driving specific business development initiatives within the team.

Client facing responsibilities may include:

• Drafting working papers & client deliverables for review

• Assisting in the planning of client workshops to develop solutions and build consensus

• Supporting project workstreams around topics such as policy, process, technology or data

• Assisting in the engagement set up for new projects

• Coaching junior team members and reviewing their output

• Proactively suggesting better and more efficient ways to deliver our work

Skills and Experience

• A good understanding of the relevant Financial Services and Financial Crime/AML specific regulations in the UK

• Knowledge of Financial Crime risks within the financial services sector, including awareness of the FCA’s approach to reducing financial crime

• Technical aptitude and analytical skills, with ability to critically challenge a point of view

• Ability to explain complex issues to support the creation and delivery of clear and understandable client solutions

• Attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy both in analysis and when preparing written reports and outputs

• Stakeholder management to support building of consensus to ensure the success of engagements

• Appetite for building a network of contacts both internally and externally

• Openness to travel, both nationally and internationally

Deals
Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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