Associate Director - Financial Crime Data

BeyondFS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial consultancy in London is seeking an Associate Director to lead innovative projects and drive business development in the financial crime sector. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in financial services and proven leadership skills. You will shape company propositions and lead complex transformations, working closely with C-suite clients. This role offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration

25 days holiday, increasing with service

Flexible benefits allowance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building and leading teams in financial crime.
• Ability to lead on data transformation and integration.
• Senior-level stakeholder engagement, including C-suite interaction.

Responsibilities

• Shape and develop BeyondFS propositions.
• Lead and deliver complex transformation programmes.
• Contribute to recruitment and internal projects.

Skills

Leadership in financial crime

Data analytics

Stakeholder engagement

Sales origination

Team development

Education

10+ years in financial services

Tools

Python

Snowflake

AWS

Actimize

Job description

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BeyondFS helps financial institutions build high-performing Financial Crime programmes that reduce risk, satisfy regulators, and run efficiently.

Clients turn to us when their change or remediation programmes aren't delivering effectively or fast enough, when new regulations arise, or when they need clearer insight into their risks and stronger capability to manage them. We apply proven, practical methods that restore confidence, regain control, build momentum, and deliver the results clients need.

In recent years, we've grown rapidly, building a team of senior FinCrime specialists with deep credibility across financial crime, change delivery, and risk and advisory services. We are in the fortunate position to benefit from the wider industry shift away from large and established consultancies to agile and focused firms that can deliver true value at pace.

By rolling up our sleeves and working alongside client teams, we make Financial Crime programmes stronger, more efficient, and able to sustain results long after we've gone.

The Opportunity

Are you ready to join an ambitious consultancy where you will experience both autonomy to develop client relationships, own sales opportunities, and deliver high-quality work? Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and are curious to learn and be part of the growth and success of a scaling consultancy? If so, we want to hear from you!

As a leader of our business, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects and help shape and build our company as we grow. We are not for the faint‑hearted, and you will need to be comfortable working in a fast‑paced, customer and people‑first environment. In return, you can expect to join a supportive, collaborative team who genuinely care about each other and like to have fun along the way. You will be working alongside some of the best consultants in the industry, where everyone takes pride in celebrating both individual and most importantly collective success.

What are we are looking for?

We are looking for an Associate Director to join our team who will act as an inspiring leader within a fast-growing financial crime consulting business. You will:

• Shape, develop and grow BeyondFS propositions.
• Directly contribute to BeyondFS' sales and business development through achieving your own targets.
• Lead and deliver our complex transformation programmes, grow our client accounts.
• Contribute towards recruitment objectives, and other people-related activities.
• Lead and manage internal projects.

Like every member of our team, enhancing our company culture will be a core part of your role – we want all of our consultants to be a role model to others in the business regardless of grade. Being a consultant at BeyondFS isn’t the easy option, you will be part of a growth journey and that takes commitment. However it is hugely rewarding and offers a massive opportunity for growth to those who join us.

Our core values are an honest reflection of who we are and how we deliver everything we do.

If you thrive in a sales‑focused role, are passionate about delivery and leading from the front, and want to be part of an exciting journey shaping BeyondFS’ future, we would love to hear from you!

Successful candidates should be able to evidence

• 10+ years in financial services within banking and consulting, with exposure to a large range of products and geographies.
• Proven experience in building, leading, developing and motivating data teams in the financial crime space.
• Experience in designing and delivering target state architectures in the context of data and/or technology.
• Acumen with the data environments associated with 1st line financial crime, non-financial regulatory, or closely associated operational functions.
• A deep understanding of data quality management and the appropriate controls, governance, processes and tools to measure, remediate, report on the current state of a client's data landscape and improvement opportunities.
• Demonstrable expertise in data analytics, to create robust and accurate insights that can enhance the detection, investigation and strategic management of financial crime risks. Good understanding of relevant tooling and frameworks to support these activities, including visualisation, data engineering, analytics solutions.
• Ability to lead on data transformation, integration, and harmonisation, to support data migration, legacy solution and data upgrade activities.
• Senior-level stakeholder engagement, including C‑suite relationship building and sponsorship management.
• Demonstrable sales origination and client development experience, including securing and expanding key accounts.
• Track record in shaping and growing consulting practices, including go‑to‑market strategies and internal development.
• Team leadership and people development, including coaching, training, and recruiting consulting teams.

Skillset

• Excellent communicator with a passion for unlocking the value of data, able to effectively communicate complex ideas to non-technical audiences.
• Credible data leader and data strategist.
• Advanced analytics and data modelling.
• Proficient with key tools, frameworks, platforms, vendor solutions, e.g., Python, Snowflake, AWS, Actimize.
• Data architecture.
• Data quality management.
• Financial Crime domain knowledge (TM, KYC, etc.), key regulatory frameworks, and typical money laundering typologies.
• Model validation and explainability including tuning, calibration, reporting.
• Practical understanding of delivering change in complex, multi-disciplinary environments.

Remuneration and benefits

You will be recognised and rewarded with:

• Competitive remuneration: This is made up of a base salary from £105k depending on experience, up to 10% sales bonus, up to 10% bonus based on company and up to 10% personal performance (up to 30% in total).
• Leave: 25 days holiday increasing by a day for each year in service to a total of 29 days (plus we will give you your birthday off)
• Additional leave: you can buy extra days up to a maximum of 30 per year
• Flexible benefits: £3000 annual allowance from day one of employment for you to allocate as you wish. Choose from benefits such as private medical insurance, critical illness cover, buy additional holiday or take the amount as extra cash if you prefer and electric car and ride to work schemes available on successful completion of your probationary period.
• A structured training approach
• Pension scheme
• Family: enhanced pay for maternity, adoption, and paternity leave.

Where are we located?

Our culture and team spirit are a key part of who we are and the business we all want to be part of. We encourage all of our team to collaborate and share knowledge working from our office whenever possible. We work in our serviced office space in London, with client-based working when needed. We ensure a well-stocked fridge (including non-alcoholic alternatives!), fruit, snacks and treats. Fortunately, we are also surrounded by quality coffee shops, lunch spots, and post-work options too. In addition, BeyondFS colleagues have access to all six One Avenue Group spaces across London.

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