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Combating Financial Crime - it's just another day at the office for our Anti-Financial Crime experts.
This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's growing Forensic team, dedicated to providing services to protect, monitor and respond against the threats of financial crime. We also help our clients harness technology to pro-actively identify and address related challenges in a variety of industries.
Our Forensic group includes forensic accountants, law enforcement specialists, technology specialists and business intelligence experts. This range of skillsets enables us to bring great insight, value and problem-solving abilities to our clients' issues.
Your role will form part of the financial crime team within Forensic, focusing on engagements related to anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, and conduct matters.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .
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Deloitte has one of the largest forensic practices in the world with over 1400 dedicated practitioners in over 30 countries, providing you with the opportunity to work abroad and experience varying business and cultural environments. Being part of a specialist group of around 250 professionals, but within a large global firm, means you will be part of a close knit culture but with the support and benefits of a large organisation.
You will gain exposure to incredibly exciting projects of a highly sensitive nature, working with clients to adapt and respond to new financial crime threats, to design and implement operating models and process enhancements, to design and implement control enhancements and to support clients responding to financial crime change. The work within the team is varied, ensuring great experience and development opportunities.
We take your development and our people's careers very seriously and foster a nurturing environment. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive - you will receive continuous training and ongoing supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. Be part of an environment where hard work and ambition is rewarded.
As an Assistant Director, your responsibilities will vary depending on the focus of your client engagement and your skillset, but could include and/or require the following:
* Working with client stakeholders and SMEs to identify strategic, operational or tactical solutions to complex issues
* Communicating regulatory requirements to business audiences with ease
* Leading the delivery of projects and workstreams on a range of client engagements including
o Mobilising and managing complex regulatory, organisational and transformation programmes
o Assessing the adequacy of current systems and controls to manage financial crime risk
o Advising on the design and implementation of systems and controls to manage financial crime risk or enhance operational efficiency
o Developing and implementing target operating models, organisational design and process enhancements in response to financial crime change
o Assessing business models in relation to regulatory and financial crime changes
* Developing new methods and tools to support the high quality and innovative delivery of advice and services to clients
* Assembling and leading diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
* Mentoring and appraising staff as part of the performance management process
* Building a broad network of client relationships within the financial crime community and wider financial services industry
* Driving business development initiatives and go-to-market offerings, identifying new opportunities to deliver value to clients
* Supporting client account teams, including the management of relationships and project opportunities
* Writing articles and thought leadership pieces on financial crime and broader regulatory matters in order to build eminence in the marketplace
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This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's growing Forensic team, dedicated to providing services to protect, monitor and respond against the threats of financial crime. We also help our clients harness technology to pro-actively identify and address related challenges in a variety of industries.
Our Forensic group includes forensic accountants, law enforcement specialists, technology specialists and business intelligence experts. This range of skillsets enables us to bring great insight, value and problem-solving abilities to our clients' issues.
Your role will form part of the financial crime team within Forensic, focusing on engagements related to anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, and conduct matters.
To qualify, you must possess demonstrable knowledge, a proven ability to deliver with strong experience in financial crime.
Essential:
* Proficient technical knowledge and experience across a broad spectrum of financial crime risk domains (AML, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption, anti-tax evasion)
* A detailed and thorough understanding of one or more segments of the financial services industry (banking through to insurance)
* Strong understanding of operational and organisational change from a technology, process and people perspective
* Significant experience in reviewing processes and controls, suggesting process improvements and highlighting inadequate or ineffective controls
* Significant experience in assessing companies business model in relation to regulatory changesx
* Strong ability to develop a target operating model and organisational design to meet the regulatory changes in financial crime
* Excellent interpersonal skills and strong evidence of designing solutions to problems and the ability to translate design into implementation actions
* Significant experience in leading workshops, sessions or meetings with various business or technical stakeholders to define requirements or strategic objectives for Financial Crime related issues
* Ability to lead sales activity, from identifying opportunities for client engagement, designing responses to market offerings through to leading oral presentations
* Project management experience, with the ability to understand key risks to successful delivery and how to resolve
* Excellent people management skills and experience in building, developing and leading diverse teams, fostering an environment of learning, inclusion and support
* Deep interest in innovation and a drive to build personal eminence in the industry
* Continual pursuit of broadening the skills of themselves and the team
* Advanced writing skills including design thinking, sentence construction, punctuation, syntax etc.
* Advanced presentation skills including presentation design and delivery
The following will be considered an advantage:
* Professional qualifications in financial crime e.g. ICA or ACAMS or equivalent desirable, though not essential
* A developing network of relevant contacts within the market
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In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.
Forensic & Financial Crime
Our teams in Forensic and Financial Crime provide proactive advice, transformation and operational support to help clients protect their brand and navigate financial crime risks, including money laundering, fraud and corruption.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
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"Deloitte is changing the mentality to agile working and the diversity debate. In terms of actual goals and openness to different ways of working, the firm is leading the way."- Janice, SR&T Advisory
Our hybrid working policy
You'll be based in London with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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