Assistant Director, Forensic & Financial Crime, Regulatory & Legislative Advisory

Deloitte LLP; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as an Assistant Director in the Forensic team, where you will play a crucial role in combating financial crime. This position offers a unique opportunity to work with diverse teams, leveraging your expertise in regulatory compliance and financial crime risk management. You will lead projects that assess and enhance financial crime controls while mentoring others in an inclusive environment. With a commitment to innovation and personal growth, this role empowers you to make a significant impact in the industry, ensuring that clients navigate complex challenges effectively. Embrace the chance to develop your career while contributing to meaningful change in financial services.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Coaching and support for returners

Inclusive team culture

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in financial crime risk domains.
• Ability to lead workshops and communicate regulatory obligations effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects assessing financial crime policies and controls.
• Develop methods to deliver high-quality advice and services to clients.

Skills

Financial Crime Risk Management

Regulatory Compliance

Process Improvement

Interpersonal Skills

People Management

Innovation and Design Thinking

Education

Professional qualifications in financial crime (ICA or ACAMS)

Job description

Reducing financial crime is a key priority for regulators, authorities and governments globally. Organised crime groups, money launderers, terrorists and fraudsters are increasingly using sophisticated international networks and financial systems to move or store funds and assets or commit fraud. Financial institutions are particularly vulnerable due to the nature of their businesses and the volume of transactions and client relationships they manage. Global financial institutions also face multiple legal and regulatory requirements in the UK, US and other countries where they do business.

In recent years, we have witnessed an increased willingness of regulators to pursue individual firms and impose tougher penalties for breaches of regulations, involving fines in the millions. In the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority's agenda suggests a continued focus on systems and controls issues through further thematic review work, attestations and enforcement activity to reinforce credible deterrence and promote standards across the industry.

The growth in demand for our services in this area provides an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic new member of the team.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

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.

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 obligations to business audiences with ease
• Leading the delivery of one or more projects and workstreams on a range of client engagements including:
  • Assessing the adequacy of financial crime policies, procedures, systems and controls to manage financial crime risk
  • Designing and supporting the implementation of financial crime controls, including enterprise-wide and customer risk assessment methodologies, policies and standards, training, assurance methodologies and/or governance and oversight controls
  • Providing SME input into the design and implementation of target operating models to manage financial crime risk or enhance operational efficiency
  • Conducting skilled person reviews or supporting clients in responding to regulatory reviews or investigations
• 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

Connect to your skills and professional experience

At Deloitte, our people are expected to have the professional and personal skills to provide a distinctive client experience during our engagements. We understand that we need different types of people with different skills to provide our clients with the best possible service. So whether you are a delivery specialist, regulatory advisor or technical master you will be able to find something exciting and entertaining.

To qualify, you must possess demonstrable knowledge, a proven ability to deliver with strong experience in financial crime.

• Proficient technical knowledge and experience across two or more of the financial crime risk domains (money launder, sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption and/or tax evasion or equivalent)
• A detailed and thorough understanding of one or more segments of the financial services industry
• Significant experience in reviewing processes and controls, suggesting process improvements and highlighting inadequate or ineffective controls
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong evidence of designing solutions to problems and the ability to translate design into implementation actions
• 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
• 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
• 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

Connect to your business -Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

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.

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.

Connect with your colleagues

“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, Strategy, Risk & Transaction 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 prioritiseyour wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

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.

Connect to your next step

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