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Role Overview
Senior Associate, Risk Advisory, Financial Crime Compliance at Ankura. This is a key role within the Financial Crime Compliance team, operating in a fast-paced culture and suited to a candidate with ambition and desire to grow and develop.
Company Overview
Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. The firm is recognized as one of the five fastest growing consulting companies with over 2,500 employees across more than thirty offices globally, providing advisory and expert services to private and public sector clients. The Risk Advisory practice is one of six business groups focused on client delivery services across the firm. The Financial Crime Compliance team has the ambition to be the clear market leader in its field.
Role Purpose
This position supports the Financial Crime Compliance team in delivering forensic investigations, fraud risk assessments, compliance reviews, and related advisory services to clients. The role involves managing client engagements, preparing deliverables, leading team members, and contributing to business development initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Client Delivery & Investigations
- Manage day-to-day delivery of forensic investigations, fraud risk assessments, forensic accounting assignments, compliance reviews, forensic audits, background searches, asset searches and fund tracing.
- Prepare engagement work plans, working papers, project documentation, progress reports, draft and final reports to the highest level of quality.
- Work with clients, their legal advisors, internal and external auditors and regulatory authorities in sometimes sensitive and adversarial situations.
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Maintain active communication with counsel, clients and internal team to manage expectations and ensure satisfaction.
- Experience frequent client interaction including preparing and presenting results.
Proposal Development & Marketing
- Design, craft and deliver client proposals, presentations and marketing materials.
Team Leadership & Development
- Support, lead and manage work of assignment teams comprised of internal and external experts in close, intermittent and distant collaboration modes.
- Support and train junior resources.
Risk & Compliance Management
- Monitor and manage risk through the engagement cycle.
- Adhere to the strictest standards of client and engagement confidentiality.
Business Development
- Get involved in business development initiatives.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
- Chartered Accountant (ICAEW or equivalent).
- Proven track record of working on international investigations, compliance risk assessments, forensic audits, disputes support or expert witness engagements.
- Experience gained in the Big 4 is essential; experience in a large international bank is highly desirable.
- Good understanding of AML, Sanctions, Counter Fraud laws and regulations, and FATF standards.
- Certification and ongoing professional education in fraud examination related area.
Skills & Competencies
- Ability to research, retrieve, prepare and analyse structured and unstructured information.
- Strong report writing, communication and presentation skills.
- Microsoft Office advanced skills.
- Analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis and Excel.
- Adaptable, driven and action orientated approach.
- Open, inquisitive and critical mind.
Additional Information
- Travel flexible.
- Be part of a growing team with a unique opportunity to help shape the practice as it develops.
- Work within a team of world recognised experts in an established leading global consultancy.
- Work in a collaborative environment which promotes curiosity, learning and communication, where professionals have the freedom to innovate.
- Gain cross discipline exposure and develop a rounded skillset across investigations and compliance.
- Be mentored by some of the best professionals in the industry.
- Experience truly supportive career development with a formal development process, training programs and an internal e-learning platform, Ankura Academy.
- Ankura is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Reasonable accommodations are available for disabled job seekers; contact accommodations@ankura.com or +1.312-583-2122.