Financial Crime and Compliance Leader

Capgemini; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global technology partner as a Financial Crime and Compliance Lead, empowering banks and financial institutions to tackle compliance challenges through advanced analytics and AI. You will play a crucial role in shaping compliance strategies and fostering strong client relationships across GB and Europe. This position offers the opportunity to leverage your expertise in a fast-evolving field and contribute significantly to business growth while working within a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in deploying financial crime and compliance solutions.
• Expertise in regulatory frameworks in banking and insurance.
• Strong client presentation and contractual negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for compliance solutions.
• Build client relationships to understand and meet compliance needs.
• Identify innovative analytics applications in compliance.

Skills

Financial Crime Prevention

Compliance Frameworks

Client Engagement

Education

Data Science or STEM Degree

Job description

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

YOUR ROLE

We are seeking a dynamic Financial Crime and Compliance Lead to drive our go-to-market strategy, engage with clients in the Financial Services sector, and generate new business opportunities across GB and Europe. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep expertise in financial crime prevention, compliance frameworks, and regulatory requirements. You will leverage advanced analytics and AI technologies to craft high-impact, compliance-driven solutions tailored to the Banking, Capital Markets (BCM), and Insurance sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Development: Develop and execute a go-to-market strategy for financial crime and compliance solutions in Financial Services, targeting large Tier 1 banks, insurance organizations, and investment banks.
• Client Engagement: Build and maintain strong client relationships, understanding their compliance needs and delivering tailored solutions using advanced analytics and AI frameworks.
• Use Case Identification: Identify innovative applications of analytics and AI in financial crime prevention and compliance, such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Fraud Detection, Regulatory Reporting, and Transaction Monitoring.
• Advisory Services: Offer consulting on compliance scalability, operating models, regulatory guardrails, compliance governance, and integrated data management.
• Technology Integration: Leverage cutting-edge platforms, including AI and machine learning models, to deliver state-of-the-art compliance solutions.
• Thought Leadership: Represent Capgemini as a thought leader in financial crime and compliance at industry events, conferences, and client meetings.
• Business Growth: Actively support Financial Services clients in the UK and across Europe, with a key aim to build client relationships, drive financial crime and compliance assets and propositions, and grow the business.

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven track record in developing and deploying financial crime and compliance solutions in the financial services domain.
• Expertise in regulatory frameworks and practical applications in banking, insurance, and capital markets.
• Experience working with large Tier 1 banks, insurance organizations, and investment banks dealing with AML, KYC, fraud, and more.
• Experience building robust, scalable compliance architectures using cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integrating with financial systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge in compliance model training, fine-tuning, and deployment, including data pipeline integration.
• Proficiency in designing compliance systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution, especially in financial contexts.
• Experience with compliance governance, ethical considerations, and ensuring adherence to financial regulations.
• Financial Crime and Compliance Expertise: Skilled at identifying and articulating compliance use cases in banking and insurance (e.g., AML, KYC, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting).
• Business Impact: Proven ability to build business cases and value models that demonstrate the tangible benefits of compliance solutions.
• Full-Cycle Pre-Sales: Strong experience in solution conceptualization, client presentations, proposal development, and contract negotiation.
• Strategic and Project Leadership: Demonstrates critical thinking, strategic planning, and project management skills to drive compliance initiatives from concept to deployment.
• Team Leadership: Proven ability to build, mentor, and lead onshore and offshore compliance teams.
• Client Engagement: Excellent client interaction, problem-solving, and communication skills, with experience working with C-level stakeholders.
• Educational Background: Data science or STEM degree preferred, with a solid foundation in compliance, AI, ML, and advanced analytics.
• Innovation and Thought Leadership: Passionate about cutting-edge compliance advancements and delivering innovative business solutions to complex challenges.
• Expertise in compliance frameworks and AI applications.
• Experience in deploying compliance factories, creating reusable compliance assets, and integrating them with financial systems.
• Knowledge of AI frameworks and applicability across the Financial Crime and Compliance workspace.
• Knowledge of compliance safety, responsible AI regulatory practices, and multi-modal AI applications for Financial Crime and Fraud management.
• Demonstrated experience in client-facing roles with C-level engagement and relationship management.
• Proven ability to navigate complex business environments, leveraging stakeholder networks to drive AI adoption.
• Passion for leading AI innovation, with high energy and excellent negotiation skills.
• Strong leadership experience in cross-functional and multicultural teams.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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