Financial Crime Director

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You'll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you're supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one.

You'll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow
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We are seeking an experienced Financial Crime Director to join our growing Financial Crime practice within Financial Services Consulting.

Working directly with the Head of Financial Crime, this role will play a critical part in the next phase of our growth, helping to build one of the market’s leading financial crime advisory practices. This is an opportunity for an ambitious and commercially minded financial crime leader who combines strong technical expertise with the gravitas to engage senior stakeholders, win work, develop people and help shape the future direction of the practice.

The role offers significant opportunity to influence strategy, develop new solutions, build client relationships and support the growth of our financial crime capabilities both in the UK and internationally.

Our Financial Crime team supports regulated and non-regulated clients across:

• Anti-money laundering (AML)
• Sanctions and proliferation financing
• Fraud and economic crime
• Anti-bribery and corruption
• Market abuse and conduct risk
• Skilled Person Reviews (s166)
• Financial crime transformation and remediation
• Financial crime governance and operating models
• Customer risk assessment and due diligence
• Financial crime technology and data

The practice is experiencing significant growth and forms a key strategic priority within Financial Services Consulting.

As a Director, you will work alongside the Head of Financial Crime to:

• Develop and execute the financial crime growth strategy.
• Build long-term client relationships.
• Lead significant client engagements.
• Develop market-leading solutions.
• Support the growth and development of our people.
• Expand our financial crime capabilities across international member firms
• This is a highly visible role with considerable opportunity to influence both the practice and wider business.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with commercial awareness, leadership capability and a genuine passion for building teams and growing a business.

They will possess the credibility to engage senior stakeholders while remaining approachable, collaborative and committed to developing others.

• Significant experience within financial crime consulting, financial services or a regulatory environment.
• Proven experience leading large and complex client engagements.
• Demonstrable business development and revenue generation experience.
• Experience building and maintaining senior client relationships.
• Strong people leadership and coaching skills.
• Deep knowledge of UK financial crime regulation and industry expectations.
• Experience across multiple financial crime disciplines.
• Strong commercial and strategic thinking.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively.

• Experience leading regulatory reviews, Skilled Person reviews or remediation programmes.
• Experience presenting to Boards and Executive Committees.
• Existing market profile through industry events, publications or thought leadership.
• Experience managing multi-jurisdictional engagements.
• Experience working across international networks.
• Professional qualifications such as ICA, ACAMS, ACCA or equivalent.

At Forvis Mazars diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values. We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity create better outcomes for our clients. We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality and faith. We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience and aim to support all our team members to reach their potential.

At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.

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