Financial Crime Investigator – Manager – PwC – London UK

In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.

We put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises – from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency. Our teams work on iconic deals with national and global clients as well as operating and investing in businesses, new ventures and entrepreneurs in our local market and communities. It’s both a responsibility and a privilege to guide our clients through moments that matter deeply to them. Our breadth of clients in an ever-changing market means we need to be agile – responding when we need to, in a way that really makes a difference.

We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate. The insight we create, coupled with the innovative tools and methodologies we use to access and evaluate the data that matters, contributes to the success of our clients in all Deals situations. We encourage our clients to think more broadly – connecting their actions today with their successes tomorrow. We help our clients throughout the Deals lifecycle to create lasting value for their businesses.

Each of our key areas within Deals, delivers services to the market individually or together by combining our specialists to provide comprehensive client solutions.

What We Are Looking For

Our vision stands at the centre of all that we do: We will be at the forefront of the urgent, ever-changing fight against financial crime – inventive in our methods, adaptive in our technology, and imaginative in our alliances. With this at our core, and feeling the human consequences of financial crime, we can shape the ongoing fight against it, so businesses succeed, people thrive and communities flourish.

The Financial Crime team in the UK works with clients to manage business risk through:

• Responsive and robust investigations driven by situational expertise and analytics,
• Remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency,
• Transformation projects that help clients emerge stronger from unplanned events, and
• Working with our clients to change their financial crime functions for the better through enhanced controls, monitoring systems, analytics, improved policy and procedures, more effective risk management, and reduction in costs.

A career in our Financial Crime team will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients navigate through complex challenges. As part of our team, you’ll provide support to our clients by targeting their areas of concern and developing strategies so that they can always be confident in their exposure to risk.

The Financial Crime team sits in the wider Forensic Services capability within PwC and brings together a mix set of capabilities to help clients prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of Financial Crime threats, risks and complex issues.

Responsibilities

In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to help manage a range of client engagements with UK and multinational financial services clients including:

• Financial Crime investigations/fact-gathering and analysis
• Financial Crime intelligence gathering
• Financial Crime risk and control reviews
• Response to regulatory scrutiny/enforcement

The Role Responsibilities Will Include The Following

• Contributing to conversations with clients about potential service requirements/opportunities
• Being the day-to-day contact for the client
• Coaching junior team members and reviewing their output
• Drafting client deliverables
• Managing engagement set up for new projects
• Managing engagement costs throughout the project
• Proactively suggesting better / more efficient ways to deliver our work

Essential Skills And Experience

Key skills and experience required for the role include:

• Experience working/advising clients in the financial services sector
• Strong understanding of financial crime regulations and regulatory obligations applicable to regulated firms
• Experience of working on a range of financial crime projects assignments, managing and being part of teams delivering successful outcomes
• Strong planning and organisation skills
• Strong communication and people management skills, including managing successful teams of varying sizes

You’ll be joining a team which welcomes your outlook and knowledge, whilst providing you the opportunity to develop your skill set further within one of the world’s leading professional organisations.

With an increasingly agile workforce, we’re open to flexible working requirements where appropriate and have many successful arrangements currently in place.

Deals

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

Not the role for you?

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The Skills We Look For In Future Employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here: www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

The Deal

We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have ‘The Deal’.

Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html

Diversity

Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.

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