Advisory: Financial Crime Compliance

7 months ago

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Talent Pal Full time

**Grant Thornton’s Regulatory Advisory financial crime team supply a range of services to regulatory authorities, licensed financial institutions and other relevant organizations. Partnering with our colleagues in Business Risk Services, Forensics, Business Consulting among others, our work falls broadly into the following areas: Regulatory Compliance Advisory, AML/CFT Reviews, Transactions, Sanctions, Compliance Governance, Data Analytics among others.**

**Job Description Summary**:
The Consultant/ Senior Consultant will assist the Regulatory Advisory and Financial Crime Managers and Senior Managers to deliver financial crime projects to financial services clients and other institutions across the UAE and the GCC region. They will also be encouraged to take a key role in the development of new business relationships and opportunities.

As a service within Regulatory Advisory, we are expanding our Financial Crime team to deliver bespoke solutions to our clients, of all sizes by providing an exemplary service for their requirements by providing the advice they need to navigate complex financial crime risks and challenges including:

- Maintain awareness/knowledge of all applicable AML & CTF in the UAE and International Standards.
- Supporting an organization’s response to identified regulatory / financial crime breaches (including the remediation of sanctions breaches or instances of money laundering, bribery or corruption or more general misconduct).
- Reviewing a firm’s financial crime framework (or specific elements within it) to assess regulatory compliance.
- Internal systems reviews - combining review and industry insight to report on financial crime control design and effectiveness.
- Helping a firm to scope and carry out remediation activities in relation to core financial crime process (such as KYC, CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring and screening).
- Bringing leading international best practice and knowledge to local clients in the region, working alongside Grant Thornton’s global Financial Crime teams.
- Helping clients of all shapes and sizes, from FS and non-FS regulated sectors, as well as corporates, providing solutions such as Recommend & Review, Reasonable Assurance and Audit Opinion.
- Demonstrating agility and adaptability to work in line with changing client expectations and requirements.
- Focus on reviews driven by regulators in the context of Financial Crime Compliance programs.

**What you'll be doing**:
**Clients**
- Build a trusted relationship with client employees, manage client expectations, undertake an assignment manager role for small and medium sized assignments and manage the day-to day aspects of these under Manager supervision.
- Engender trust and respect from the client by managing assignments accurately, responding quickly to demands and delivering to deadlines.
- Deliver projects with colleagues and clients, including day to day ownership of projects and client liaison and know when to escalate issues or areas of concern, as and when they arise.
- Display judgment and an understanding of relevant risks and issues arising in an assignment, offering potential solutions and seeking advice when necessary.
- Record Keeping
- Maintain assignment files and identify key issues early to discuss with the Engagement Manager, keeping them informed of progress.
- Taking responsibility for meeting timelines & budgets and managing small teams.

**Markets**
- Utilize and build up a network of contacts and attend external networking events.
- Be aware of Grant Thornton services and is able to identify opportunities to sell those services to clients whilst articulating and promoting Financial Crime Compliance services to other departments.
- Be actively involved in office marketing events when appropriate and an 'ambassador' of the firm.
- Seek to actively support, and co-ordinate, aspects of business development opportunities e.g., preparing proposals/bids, supporting at pitch meetings, organizing conferences/client events, developing marketing materials.
- Identifying and developing new market opportunities for the firm and considering new capabilities which the market may require.

**People**
- Be an active contributor to internal and external meetings, learning opportunities as directed.
- Work effectively with all members of the team, building respect of peers and junior team members.
- Mentor and coach junior team members; appraise them giving regular feedback, complete timely performance reviews and provide development opportunities.
- Actively seek and manage opportunities to develop own technical and consultancy skill, attend workshops, keep technical knowledge up to date, develop senior managerial competencies through in-house training opportunities and keep records for CPD purposes (where required).

**Operations and results**
- Take responsibility for assigned areas and/or small to medium sized projects, including deliverable review process, whilst monitoring time and

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