Financial Crime Sanctions London, England
Job description
In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.
Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises - from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency.
We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate.
Restructuring & Forensics
In Restructuring & Forensics we focus on supporting our clients through the Protect and Recover stages of the business cycle. We combine restructuring services such as financial restructuring, liability restructuring and corporate simplification with Digital and Forensic Investigations and Financial Crime teams. We support clients in stress or distress situations, seeking to support them to respond, restructure and transform, as well as prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues.. We could be involved in any one, or all of these types of engagements.
In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to lead on a range of sanctions compliance client engagement with UK and multinational financial (and non-financial) services clients.
We support our clients with a range of services:
Knowledge of the different regulators’ expectations in relation to the control environment required to ensure efficient and effective sanctions compliance
Understanding how sanctions compliance risk might crystalise within an organisation's business
Designing the systems and controls to manage the sanctions compliance risks.
Developing sanctions policies and procedures
Reviewing systems and controls as part of first, second and third line of defence, including testing sanctions compliance technologies, such as screening tools.
The role responsibilities will include the following:
Managing projects including project delivery, budget and risk
Actively contributing on client-facing project work, demonstrating domain expertise, and working in a team to produce the required high standard of deliverables
Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients
Supporting sales initiatives through leading on bids, proposals and developing opportunities
Coaching junior team members and reviewing their output
Drafting client deliverables
Proactively suggesting better / more efficient ways to deliver our work
Essential skills and experience
In order to be successful you will need to show ability in most of the following areas:
The ability to navigate and apply the relevant financial crime regulations (AML, sanctions, fraud, tax evasion, bribery and corruption) in the UK and elsewhere
Knowledge of the control frameworks required to mitigate non-financial risk
The analytical skills to navigate the processes which are needed to the frameworks
The relationships skills to develop a network of client contacts, as well as relevant internal stakeholders across the firm
Previous experience working with a governmental or regulatory body is also preferable
Deals
Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.
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