Financial Crime – Assistant Manager, Mazars – London, UK

Would you like to be an integral part of a fast growing, agile and dynamic financial crime team?

Mazars is looking for a passionate financial crime professional to join our financial crime team, within our established and constantly growing Forensic & Valuation Services team, where you will focus on provide support to both regulated (Financial Services) and non-regulated firms across a number of areas, including Anti-Money laundering (AML), Counter terrorist financing (CTF) and Proliferation Financing (PF); Sanctions; Bribery & Corruption; Fraud; Tax Evasion and Market Abuse.

You will work alongside a diverse and experienced group where your personal development is at the forefront of our culture.

This is an exciting role, with ample career progression and professional development opportunities, working on a variety of high-profile financial crime engagements, providing experience across a range of sectors and developing a number of different skill sets. Our typical assignments include:

• Supporting firms with regulatory driven reviews including Skilled Person Reviews (s166)
• Sanctions compliance reviews and look back investigations
• Independent assessments of financial crime frameworks (policies, procedures and controls)
• Financial Crime Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) design and delivery
• Customer Risk Assessment model design, testing and implementation
• Operational effectiveness testing of financial crime controls
• Financial Crime compliance and remediation programme design, delivery and assurance
• Financial Crime operating model assessment and redesign
• Financial Crime training design, delivery and assessment

Job Role

Day to day work covers a wide range of tasks, both client focused and those helping us to grow our financial crime services and team such as participating in business development activities. You may find yourself conducting fact-finding interviews and walkthroughs, conducting an assessment of customer risk rating methodologies, researching thematic issues and trends including regulatory requirement updates, liaising with clients or intermediaries, or crafting project strategy and approach alongside senior team members.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside all of our practitioners in Disputes, Investigations and Valuations, as we operate as a truly national practice across all areas of forensic and valuation services by embracing a hybrid working model.

As a member of this busy and growing team you will be instrumental in ensuring that client expectations are met through the provision of quality client deliverables within an agreed budget and timescale. In addition, you will be actively involved in the growth and development of the financial crime team, including participating in business development activities and contributing to the development of junior team members.

As an Assistant Manager your typical daily duties will include:

• Putting together and maintaining project plans and working papers, ensuring they align with the scope of work agreed with the client.
• Working independently on assigned tasks and coaching junior team members
• Assisting managers and partners with preparing quality client deliverables, including reports.
• Capturing observations and findings and drafting these for client deliverables.
• Escalating key issues to the engagement manager and providing updates on progress.
• Having a proactive approach to building your knowledge of financial crime issues and trends.
• Actively identifying and pursuing opportunities to learn and develop your technical knowledge and consultancy skills through training, coaching and on-the-job learning opportunities.
• Taking ownership of assigned tasks and focusing on the outcome and objectives, offering suggestions to improve our working practices, tools and methodologies.
• Actively supporting aspects of business development opportunities including preparing proposals/bids, organising conferences/client events, developing marketing materials.
• Developing your internal and external networking through attending events.

Skills & Experience

We are looking for a financial crime professional who is ambitious and team-orientated, with a passion for working within a financial crime team, delivering outstanding work product with a high attention to detail. The following skills and experience would be beneficial but are not all essential as we will support you with your development:

• Strong experience in a relevant financial crime/governance/compliance/risk/internal audit role.
• Ideally a professional financial crime related qualification (but not essential) e.g. ICA, ACAMS, CISI, ACFE.
• Familiar with the UK, EU and global regulatory framework and developments regarding financial crime compliance. Specifically, those set out in the FCA Handbook and relating to Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorism, Tax Evasion, Bribery and Corruption, Sanctions and Fraud.
• A high level of attention to detail and strong ability to analyse data/information to identify patterns, anomalies and potential financial crime risks and apply a methodical approach.
• A sceptical mindset and sound judgement, alongside problem solving skills.
• Takes ownership of assigned tasks and adopts a proactive approach.
• Time management skills, including the ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• The ability to build long lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal) to articulate findings and prepare reports.
• Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity and integrity.
• Actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge.
• Demonstrates drive and commitment to self-development and continuous learning.
• Flexible, adaptable and professional approach to work and clients.
• IT proficiency across the MS365 suite of products.

About Mazars

Mazars is a leading international professional services firm delivering exceptional quality in audit, accounting, tax, financial advisory, outsourcing and consulting.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Mazars, we celebrate individuality and thrive on teamwork. We give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Central London based office with a hybrid working model!

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