• Full Time
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Job description

At KPMG, our values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people – their different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. From our inclusive leadership strategy to our diversity and inclusion targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

The Financial Crime Technology team is a key contributor to the Firm’s strategic growth initiatives. We have achieved rapid year-on-year growth since the team’s inception and have set ourselves ambitious targets to maintain the momentum. We possess a strong pipeline of work for the year ahead and continue to develop innovative market-leading solutions for our clients. We now need an experienced and dependable director to convert the existing pipeline, expand it with our current offerings and to develop new financial crime-focussed propositions.

The Role

  • Financial crime and technical knowledge: You will provide subject matter expertise to our clients in the following areas: sanctions screening, fraud detection and prevention, market abuse and regulatory breach monitoring, and AML transaction monitoring.
  • Proposition development: You will develop financial crime-focussed propositions that address the regulatory and commercial challenges of our clients.
  • Team strategy. You will work directly with partners to develop and implement team strategy and pursue growth ambitions.
  • Risk management: You will identify and manage risk, ensuring the Firm’s risk management frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively.
  • Engagement management: You will be responsible for multipleclient-facing projects and be the point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
  • Building relationships: You will acquire and sustain cohesive relationships with key client contacts and colleagues within KPMG.
  • Team development: You will mentor the team and encourage the development of relevant skills and knowledge.

    • Required Experience and Skills

  • A demonstrable understanding of the current challenges affecting financial institutions in the financial crime space and the technology used to combat them.
  • Proven experience of large financial crime projects with financial institutions, preferably leading the technology or data work stream.
  • Experience of interacting with senior client contacts; examples being the MLRO, CRO or their legal counsel.
  • A proven ability to develop client relationships and maintain professional networks.
  • Proven experience of leading large teams.
  • Positive leadership qualities and style that empowers and motivates team members.
  • Problem-solving and solution design for user/business needs.
  • Demonstrable sales skills and experience, including creating new ideas to expand a team’s market offering and leading sales pitches to generate new work.

    • Desirable experience and skills

  • Ability to identify and exploit commercial sales opportunities and support colleagues in defining solutions in response.
  • Experience of working within the operational aspects of a financial institution’s financial crime compliance function, for example filter management or alert review.
  • Experience of working in or working on transformation programmes in regulated industries, particularly target operating model projects within financial crime.
  • Knowledge of a market leading solutions for Financial Crime compliance ( Fircosoft, Actimize, Norkom, Mantas, BAe NetReveal, SAS etc.).