Project Consultant

Salary: £Please confirm competitive rate / contact us to discuss further

Location: 50% (2-3 days) on site in London

Contract Length: 8 months (Nov 2026 – Jun 2027)

Clearance: SC

Candidates must have recent technical experience of financial crime transformation projects within banks, across fraud, money laundering and sanctions, including detailed technical experience in the following areas:

• A detailed understanding of the current software market including the future implications of AI;
• Enterprise wide risk assessment;
• Design of bespoke customer risk assessment models;
• Definition of screening and monitoring rules and typologies to meet specific risk profiles; and
• Experience validating and re-optimising financial crime business processes and end to end alert handling operating models.

Candidates will also need to demonstrate the following:

• Strong banking and payments knowledge and in particular a detailed knowledge of correspondent banking and Swift messaging;
• Understanding of the international legal and regulatory financial crime requirements as they apply to a central bank, across all the areas of sanctions compliance, anti-money laundering, counter terrorist and proliferation financing and payment fraud prevention across the client’s financial operations.
• Familiarity with best practice requirements of complex change projects;
• Knowledge of best practice for model management and governance;
• Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders including Financial Crime, Technology, Risk, Legal and Procurement.