SC Cleared Finance / Transformation Consultant

Overview

In this hybrid, London-based role, you will provide market knowledge and technical leadership to define the future transaction screening and monitoring capabilities for a bank. You’ll assess current arrangements, identify improvement opportunities, and benchmark against best practices to shape the design and business case for financial crime controls. You will collaborate across Legal, Risk, Tech, and Procurement to prepare for later phases, including potential vendor selection. This role offers impact from shaping risk-based screening and monitoring in a regulated, global banking environment.

Responsibilities

• Analyze scope and coverage of transaction monitoring aligned to the bank’s risk profile
• Evaluate current operating model and identify strengths and improvement opportunities
• Conduct market scanning to determine best practices and trends
• Perform financial crime technical analysis to inform design decisions
• Provide technical support for business cases and requirements definitions
• Prepare for later phases including potential vendor selection

Key requirements

• Recent technical experience in financial crime transformation projects within banks (fraud, money laundering, sanctions)
• Detailed understanding of current software market including AI implications
• Enterprise-wide risk assessment experience
• Design of bespoke customer risk assessment models
• Definition of screening and monitoring rules and typologies
• Experience validating and re-optimising end-to-end financial crime processes and alert handling operating models
• Strong knowledge of correspondent banking and SWIFT messaging
• Familiarity with international regulatory requirements for sanctions, AML, CTF, and PF across bank operations
• Experience with complex change projects and model governance
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders (Financial Crime, Technology, Risk, Legal, Procurement)

• Collaborative cross-functional work
• Analytical mindset
• Stakeholder management
• AI implications in financial crime software
• Enterprise risk assessment
• Custom risk modeling

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