Financial Crime Manager

Overview

As Financial Crime Manager within Grant Thornton’s Forensic & Investigation Services, you lead client-facing delivery on financial crime, overseeing report outputs, risk assessment, and remediation activities. You mentor junior staff, manage small teams and budgets, and drive business development while ensuring regulatory compliance. You’ll work across FS and non-FS clients, leveraging deep regulatory knowledge to protect clients and the UK financial system. This role combines leadership with hands-on, technical financial crime work.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working options
• work-life balance
• secondments
• charitable fundraising
• support for entrepreneurship investment
• inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Coordinate report inputs, draft sections, and manage review cycles
• Build trusted client relationships and manage expectations
• Act as assignment manager for small/medium projects under supervision
• Maintain organised records of work and conclusions
• Identify key issues early and keep Engagement Partner/Director updated
• Delegate tasks, deliver to timelines and budgets, manage junior teams
• Apply judgment on risks, propose solutions, seek guidance when needed
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and collaborate with peers
• Mentor and coach junior staff; conduct performance reviews and development
• Pursue ongoing technical and consultancy skill development
• Support business development activities (proposals, bids, pitches, events, marketing)
• Build professional network and attend external events
• Maintain knowledge of financial crime topics including MLR2017, CFA2017, BA2010, JMLSG, FATF
• Ensure internal procedures are followed (take-on, conflict checks, charge codes)

Key requirements

• Minimum 4 years relevant experience, including 2 years in a financial crime role
• Financial crime professional qualification (e.g., ICA, ACAMS, CISI, ACFE)
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Strong knowledge of UK financial crime regulatory regime (AML, ABC, sanctions, TF, fraud)
• Commercial awareness of client issues in regulated sectors
• Experience leading teams of juniors and independent work capability
• Commitment to self-development and coaching others

• client-focused
• strong communication
• mentoring and coaching
• UK financial crime regulatory regime knowledge (AML, sanctions, TF, fraud)
• Familiarity with MLR2017, CFA2017, BA2010, JMLSG, FATF guidance
• Management of small to mid-size assignments

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