AML Risk Models - Manager

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.

Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises - from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency.

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.

Restructuring & Forensics

In Restructuring & Forensics we focus on supporting our clients through the Protect and Recover stages of the business cycle. We combine restructuring services such as financial restructuring, liability restructuring and corporate simplification with Digital and Forensic Investigations and Financial Crime teams. We support clients in stress or distress situations, seeking to support them to respond, restructure and transform, as well as prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues.. We could be involved in any one, or all of these types of engagements.

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

• 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

The role responsibilities will include the following:

• Actively managing projects including project delivery, budget and risk

• Actively contributing on client-facing project work, demonstrating domain expertise, and motivating a team to produce the required high standard of deliverables

• Developing and owning the AML technology proposition and delivery methodologies

• Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients

• Supporting sales initiatives through leading on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities

• Coaching junior team members and reviewing their output

• Drafting client deliverables

• Proactively suggesting better / more efficient ways to deliver our work

Essential skills and experience

• Detailed understanding of the relevant AML regulations in the UK and US, and ideally in other jurisdiction

• Working knowledge in developing and defining policies and procedures and knowledge of both the technical and qualitative aspects of transaction monitoring

• Strong knowledge of a bank’s typical transaction monitoring exposures including a sound understanding of typologies

• Experience in defining and building out risk models related to financial crime

• Experience advising on or executing the implementation and optimisation of AML technologies (Quantexa, Oracle, Actimize, BAE Systems, etc.)

• A strong network of client relationships including vendors, financial institutions and external bodies

• A proven track record in helping new engagements/clients and identifying new opportunities with existing clients. Listen to their needs and interpret this to provide new opportunities to assist them

• Experience in visualisation products such as Tableau and QlikView and advanced MS Excel (VBA and macros)

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.

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