Consultant - Financial Crime Advisory

Our Risk and Compliance practice are looking for an experienced consultant to join our Financial Crime team. 

Baringa is committed to reducing financial crime and the negative consequences it has on society. Our business seeks to bring insight and perspective and have lasting impact for our clients, the environment, and on the communities where we live and work. We help our clients to better understand how Financial Crime can be carried out through their organisations and to put in place targeted controls, enabling them to manage this risk efficiently. 

What you will be doing

We work across the entire Financial Services industry helping our clients to shape and deliver their strategic anti-financial crime agenda, with a specific focus on AML and Sanctions.

You will be working as part of a team to play a lead role in the following types of client engagements:

• Designing and supporting the implementation of FC target operating models
• Assessing and benchmarking the effectiveness of firms’ FC systems and controls against regulation and legislation
• Designing and implementing a range of key FC controls, translating regulatory requirements into business and functional requirements that describe the system, data, process and control changes required to achieve compliance
• Leading the planning and delivery of FC change programmes and projects
• Designing and leading the implementation of FC technology solutions such as transaction monitoring, client screening.

Your skills and experience

• Experience other than pure operational FinCrime work - e.g. prior consulting experience, work experience in the UK/US
• Technical skills and practical experience with data analytics
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the current FC legal and regulatory landscape and key regulatory initiatives
• Experience of the design and implementation of FC systems – such as transaction monitoring, client or payment screening
• Experience of designing, implementing and testing a broad range of FC controls would be considered an advantage
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CAMS) would be considered an advantage
• Аbility to take ownership and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong academic performance with at least a Bachelor’s Degree
• Candidates should be comfortable with international travel, which may be required for up to 30% of the time. Candidates must be able to travel and work within the EU/UK.

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.