Anti-Financial Crime Monitoring, Testing and Oversight Consultant

Aberdeen Standard Investments; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in London seeks an MTO Consultant to support its Anti-Financial Crime team. The role involves developing monitoring frameworks and ensuring compliance with financial crime regulations. Ideal candidates will have experience in asset management and financial crime, along with strong analytical and stakeholder engagement skills. This position offers significant benefits, including extensive annual leave and a range of flexible perks.

Benefits

40 days’ annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in the financial services sector.
• Understanding of asset management, platforms, and advisory businesses.
• Proven track record in testing and assuring processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement AFC monitoring and testing program.
• Conduct regular reviews of AFC controls and processes.
• Prepare reports on monitoring and testing outcomes.

Skills

Experience in asset management

Financial Crime knowledge

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced professional to join our Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) team as a Monitoring, Testing & Oversight (MTO) Consultant. This pivotal role supports the AFC MTO Lead in implementing our risk management and prevention program, safeguarding the organization’s reputation and ensuring compliance with AFC policies and procedures.

In this position, you will support the AFC MTO Lead in establishing a comprehensive monitoring framework for key processes and controls aimed at preventing financial crime across Aberdeen. You will support the reviews undertaken and and produce data-driven reports to aid management and board oversight of our anti-financial crime environment.

Collaboration is key, as you will work with colleagues across all of Aberdeen’s global locations to ensure consistent standards and high-quality financial crime oversight. Additionally, you will oversee the monitoring of various financial crime functions within the business and among outsourcing partners, focusing on systems and controls.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and implementing a comprehensive AFC monitoring and testing program to ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.

• Conducting regular reviews of AFC controls and processes, identifying potential areas for improvement.

• Overseeing AFC activities across the business, ensuring effective governance and risk management frameworks.

• Identifying and escalating of compliance issues, working with senior management to ensure timely remediation.

• Preparing detailed reports on monitoring and testing outcomes for senior management and relevant committees.

• Aligning the AFC monitoring and testing program with Aberdeen's Global AFC Policies and Standards, acting as a contact for AFC monitoring and testing.

• Supporting the provision of training and guidance on AFC monitoring and testing procedures to business units, maintaining awareness of changes in AFC regulations and industry practices.

About the Candidate:

• Experience of performing assurance testing within the financial services sector, ideally with an understanding of asset management, platforms, and advisory businesses.

• Financial Crime experience

• Proven experience in testing, sampling, and assuring processes to mitigate risk.

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement and delivering high-quality outputs under tight deadlines within a regulated environment.

• Knowledge of financial crime regulatory requirements is preferable

• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder engagement skills

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.