Financial Crime Managed Services - Business Architect - Senior Manager

Financial Crime Managed Services – Business Architect – Senior Manager

About EY
EY Financial Services Organization (FSO) works with leading financial services clients globally. We are consistently growing our advisory practices, outpacing competition, and working as one borderless organization - 15,000 employees across 30 countries – building teams who have the skills and experience our clients need. For you, this means exciting opportunities including:

• Working with global financial services clients, locally and internationally, to come up with innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Teaming up with highly skilled people across diverse and challenging programmes.
• Sharing knowledge with people known for their world-class expertise and insight.
• Being exposed to different business cultures and developing an international network of colleagues and clients that will last a lifetime.
• Helping shape the future of Financial services.

Financial Crime Managed Services

Our Financial Crime Managed Services (FCMS) team sits within EY’s broader Financial Crime & Forensics solution. We offer a global, consistent service to our clients delivered through regional hubs with more than 4,000 operations professionals worldwide. We can scale the workforce across geographies and have a flexible model that delivers services on/offshore to balance cost, service levels and language needs. Our FCMS team specialises in topics such as:

• Build and run of end to end FCMS solutions.
• Transaction monitoring.
• Customer screening/payment filtering for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
• KYC and customer on-boarding.
• AML monitoring and alert investigations.
• Remediation.

Within the FCMS team, we have financial crime business and operations specialists who apply a wide range of financial crime knowledge and technical skills to undertake:

• Formation and operation of FCMS solutions.
• Transformation of end-to-end management of KYC, transaction monitoring and sanctions processes.
• End-to-end transaction monitoring and sanctions screening services, including investigations and escalation reviews.
• Remediation activities, including look back file reviews and alert management.
• Design and operation of technology solutions to automate and enhance financial crime operations covering KYC, transaction monitoring and sanctions.

The Role
We are looking for Financial Crime Business Architect at Senior Manager level to join our growing team.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Desire to build / develop a career in advising our clients with improvements and industry insight relation to financial crime operations.
• Strong interest and commitment to understanding and developing leading-edge financial crime prevention solutions to our industry clients.
• Highly capable and mentally dexterous, you thrive in fast paced environments, where the expectation is to operate with a strong sense of urgency to deliver tangible operational solutions.
• Flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalise these into workable solutions and support / lead the delivery of these solutions.
• Appreciation of EY’s solutions / go to market abilities and how these services our client’s needs.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills.
• Strong team player and an entrepreneurial outlook with a “no task too small” attitude; willing to roll up your sleeves and work as a team and equally comfortable leading a team / engagement.

To qualify for this role, you must have

• 8 years’ + experience in financial crime gained either through a consultancy, a financial services firm or with a regulatory body or law enforcement.
• Practical experience in financial services in one or more of banking, capital markets, insurance or asset management.
• Experience in financial crime operations, Managed Services or remediation in KYC, screening or transaction monitoring.
• Knowledge of the financial crime regulatory landscape with the ability to assess regulatory impacts on financial crime operations.
• Experience in understanding business requirements and translating them into technical requirements.
• Ability to analyse and document complex business processes, user stories and functional requirements.
• Analytical mind set; critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources and reconcile conflicts.
• Proven ability to gather and review required information (business and technical requirements), developing suitable processes and reviewing both business and technical solutions.
• Experience leading workshops and review meetings with technical and business users/customers.
• Ability to demonstrate a proven Business Analyst skill set and the ability to effectively communicate across a varying stakeholder base, both internal and external.
• Ability to take ownership of several complex initiatives with excellent time management skills
• Experience in project management and managing a team of junior business analysts on large scale projects.
• Experience in leading the delivery of financial crime operations programmes.
• Experience in leading global teams and team members located remotely.
• Excellent communication, inter-personal and negotiating skills.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

• Experience in supporting the design, set up and/or management of financial crime operations/Managed Services or remediation activity such as KYC, screening or transaction monitoring.
• Expert knowledge of transformation change frameworks, agile methodologies, and best practice techniques.
• Experience in supporting and/or developing operations and technology business requirements covering AML and Sanctions processes.
• Experience with working closely with developers, testers and stakeholders to ensure solution is implemented based on requirements.
• Technical grounding and proven experience developing technical requirements and specifications, including knowledge of software engineering methodologies, reporting tools, and testing.
• Knowledge of leading AML and Sanctions technology solutions used for KYC, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening as well as operations workflow management (e.g. Actimize, BAE systems, DowJones, Fircosoft).
• Experience of developing sales collateral such as proposal responses.
• A financial crime compliance qualification (e.g. CAMS, ICA Diploma).

What we look for

We are interested to hear from people with the right attitude for the job! That’s naturally entrepreneurial people that feed on the energy of a thriving global team. You’ll need a balance of technical and analytical skills, a creative approach to work and strong communication skills. If you’ve got big ideas, as well as the confidence to voice them, this role is for you.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.