Managing Consultant - Financial Crime Compliance

6w1 month ago

HKA

London, GB · Full-time · £85,000 – £115,000

About this role

HKA is expanding its Financial Crime Compliance practice and seeking ambitious, intellectually curious Managing Consultants to join the growing London team. This role combines regulatory insight, analytical challenge, client exposure, and accelerated development in a fast-growing specialist consultancy.

Managing Consultants deliver financial crime risk assessments, investigations, and advisory projects for clients in banking, FinTech, payments, insurance, and wealth management. Engagements involve Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Counter-Proliferation Financing (CPF), sanctions, fraud, market abuse, due diligence, and governance assessments.

Work on complex financial crime cases across multiple markets and jurisdictions, influencing regulatory and investigative outcomes. Collaborate in a fast-paced, intellectually stimulating environment with multidisciplinary teams on projects with significant regulatory and commercial impact.

Learn from senior practitioners with extensive regulatory, enforcement, and advisory experience, including former regulators. Thrive in a collaborative culture valuing integrity, sound judgement, critical thinking, and team-based problem solving where development is prioritised.

As a scaling consultancy, enjoy accelerated opportunities for responsibility, advancement, and leadership. Ambitious professionals have space to grow in a tight-knit group where ideas are heard.

Requirements

Approximately 3–5 years of experience in financial crime compliance, investigations, or related advisory work within regulated financial services
Backgrounds in banking, payments, FinTech, insurance, wealth management, or relevant regulatory bodies
Solid foundation in financial crime with ability to contribute effectively with minimal supervision
Strong regulatory knowledge in AML, CTF, CPF, sanctions, fraud, and market abuse
Analytical capability and investigative skills
Clear communication for engagements involving due diligence, investigations, and financial crime governance assessments

Responsibilities

Analysing financial crime frameworks, testing controls, systems, and governance arrangements
Supporting investigations into suspected AML breaches, sanctions violations, fraud, or misconduct
Conducting file reviews, data analysis, and document assessments for regulatory, internal, and advisory matters
Performing CDD and EDD reviews, including assessing Source of Wealth, Source of Funds, beneficial ownership, and ownership/control structures
Assisting with sanctions-related work, including screening analysis, exposure assessments, escalation reviews, and red flag identification
Reviewing policies, procedures, management information, and datasets to highlight control gaps, inconsistencies, and remediation needs
Drafting clear and concise report sections, including factual summaries, analytical findings, and action recommendations

Benefits

Global impact on complex financial crime cases across multiple markets and jurisdictions
Learn from senior practitioners including former regulators and subject-matter experts
Collaborative culture valuing integrity, sound judgement, critical thinking, and team-based problem solving
Accelerated opportunities for responsibility, advancement, and leadership in a scaling consultancy