Economic Crime Assistant Manager

Economic Crime Assistant Manager - London

Job description
We are recruiting for a Economic Crime Assistant Manager to join BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, in their Economic Crime team. This permanent opportunity is offering an excellent salary, plus a 6% cash allowance which will be reviewed regularly in line with performance. Alongside this, there is also a generous standard benefits package.

About the role:
Join our dynamic Economic Crime Advisory team as an Assistant Manager and play a pivotal role in protecting businesses from financial crime risks. You’ll support diverse clients—including those in financial services, betting and gaming, real estate, crypto, and legal sectors—to build resilient compliance frameworks and innovate their defences against evolving threats.

Key responsibilities include;

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with all clients and colleagues
• Deliver projects in the required timeframe as agreed with the client
• Support in the delivery of independent reviews by assessing and evaluating the design and operational effectiveness of clients’ current financial crime compliance framework against regulatory requirements and expectations, including:
  • Governance and oversight arrangements (governance structure, three lines of defence model and management information)
  • Risk management (risk appetite statement, business-wide risk assessment, customer risk assessment)
  • Due diligence (customer/enhanced due diligence, initial customer screening)
  • Ongoing monitoring (transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, ongoing customer screening, payment screening)
  • Training (strategy/plan, material content, attendance monitoring)
• Prepare clear and concise reports representing the output of engagements to be received by the client, as well as third parties such as the client’s regulator, banking partner, auditors etc
• Provide verbal and written recommendations to clients on how to enhance their financial crime controls to meet regulatory requirements and industry practice
• Support in the delivery of creating and enhancing clients’ financial crime systems and controls, including:
  • Uplifting financial crime policies and procedures to be in line with regulatory requirements and expectations
  • Conducting business-wide risk assessments, using quantitative and qualitative analysis to support accurate identification and assessment of inherent risks
  • Designing and delivering bespoke financial crime training based on the client’s size, business model and risk profile
• Provide support and guidance to junior members of the team, including quality assurance of their fieldwork
• Assist with engagement administration, including preparation of engagement letters and client take on
• Assist with realising the team’s financial crime opportunities and strategic framework through marketing (such as writing articles/thought leadership).
• Demonstrate awareness of commercial, financial and operational management, including how to maximise utilisation and efficiencies in processes

About you:

• Good consultancy experience in financial crime, fraud (or similar) compliance.
• Passionate about supporting clients with their financial crime frameworks to support the mitigation of financial crime risk.
• Interest in learning, upskilling and expanding knowledge and skillset into broader sectors through undertaking diverse projects and receiving on-the-job coaching.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to juggle multiple projects and deadlines, prioritising work where needed, and independently managing own workload successfully.
• Ability to investigate and resolve problems with some support and guidance as required involving senior members of the team.
• An inquisitive attitude to positively challenge the team’s working papers and methodologies as you work on engagements to enhance effective and efficient engagement management.
• Sound knowledge of some/all of the team’s strategic sectors (financial services, betting and gaming, real estate, crypto and legal) and the inherent financial crime risks which lie within these sectors. Is desirable.
• Experience of writing detailed reports, with clear, concise, cohesive and rational assessments, adapting the tone and style based on the recipient(s).

Additional Information:
Location: London – Hybrid
Duration: Permanent
Benefits: 25 day’s holiday, a personal pension scheme with matched employer contributions, life assurance cover and income protection cover. In addition to this, a range of voluntary benefits is on offer including; buy up to ten days’ extra holiday; add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance; Bike to Work scheme; discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms; an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan; childcare vouchers; online health assessment and employee assistance programme.

Are you ready to join the team? Click on the link to apply!