Financial Crime Consultant

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What is next in your career?

The financial crime landscape is evolving rapidly. Regulators, governments and organisations are facing increasingly sophisticated threats across money laundering, sanctions evasion, fraud, bribery and corruption, and wider economic crime.

At PA, we help clients navigate these challenges by combining deep domain expertise with consulting, technology and delivery excellence. Our teams work with leading financial institutions, payment firms, regulators and public sector organisations to strengthen financial crime frameworks, improve operational effectiveness and respond to complex regulatory change.

As a Financial Crime Consultant, you will work alongside experienced practitioners on some of the most pressing financial crime challenges facing organisations today. You will gain exposure across the spectrum of financial crime disciplines, develop strong consulting capabilities and contribute to meaningful outcomes for clients and society.

The Opportunity

As a Financial Crime Consultant, you will support clients in understanding, managing and mitigating financial crime risks.

You will work across a broad range of engagements covering anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, customer due diligence, governance, risk management, regulatory change and financial crime transformation.

You will help clients assess risks, enhance frameworks, improve controls and deliver practical solutions that meet regulatory expectations while supporting business objectives.

Working within multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to client deliverables, facilitate workshops, undertake analysis, conduct research and support senior stakeholders in addressing complex financial crime challenges.

What You Will Be Doing

You will have opportunities to:

• Support the delivery of financial crime advisory, transformation and regulatory engagements.
• Assess financial crime risks and control frameworks across multiple financial crime disciplines.
• Review and develop policies, standards, procedures and governance arrangements.
• Conduct research and analysis relating to financial crime regulation, industry developments and emerging risks.
• Support financial crime risk assessments, gap analyses and framework reviews.
• Contribute to operating model, process and control design initiatives.
• Help clients respond to regulatory change and evolving supervisory expectations.
• Produce high-quality reports, presentations and client deliverables.
• Support and facilitate client workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Collaborate with colleagues across risk, compliance, transformation, digital and data and operations disciplines.

Recent Work

Our financial crime team supports a diverse range of clients across financial services, payments and the public sector.

Examples of our work include:

• Supporting financial institutions in strengthening AML, sanctions and fraud frameworks.
• Advising organisations on financial…