Director, Financial Crime Compliance

Overview

Successful organizations depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. EY Forensic & Integrity Services professionals help organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation. We assist companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges, putting integrity at the heart of compliance programs to better manage ethical and reputational risks.

As a Director, you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers, developing a portfolio of projects by focusing on high‑value opportunities. You’ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects, providing subject‑matter insight to bids and proposals, and creating innovative commercial insights for clients while adapting methods to fit operational team and cultural needs.

• Lead and grow a team, providing strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, financial crime compliance (FCC), corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, and internal controls.
• Assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls to manage organizational and strategic risks.
• Manage multiple client engagement teams at an executive level, working with high‑level client personnel to address compliance, financial, and operational risks, performing internal control testing, developing internal audit plans, and providing internal audit services on an outsourcing basis.
• Assess clients’ internal controls and SOX framework to mitigate risk, advising them on business risks and the validity of their business information.
• Brief engagement teams on client IA environments, industry IA trends, and maintain relationships with client management to manage expectations of service, deliverables, and timing.

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in the Forensics domain with a background in internal audit, risk advisory, financial crime compliance, and risk assessment within a consulting firm.
• Strong understanding of regulator expectations and international organisations such as FATF.
• Knowledge of the global risk and regulatory environment, especially developments in the FCC space.
• Graduate degree in law, finance or commerce preferred; post‑graduate qualifications in AML/CFT or commerce.
• Industry‑related certification (e.g., CAMS or ICA diploma in AML).

• Working experience in the MENA region.
• Post‑graduate qualifications in AML/CFT or professional/technical qualifications in risk management.
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing internal controls for financial services business processes, especially within the FCC framework and strategy.

We are interested in entrepreneurs who confidently develop and promote a brand‑new strategic vision both internally and externally, who are business savvy, passionate about innovation, and motivated to create their own EY journey.

• Continuous learning:
  Develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:
  Access tools and flexibility to make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative leadership:
  Gain insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:
  Be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.