Deals, Forensics - Financial Crime Technology - Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Advisory

Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Deals

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
Line of Service Overview

Realising the potential of your mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets transactions.

Deals are an opportunity - for faster growth, stronger capabilities and dramatic transformation. Harnessing this potential requires foresight that only comes from a deep fluency in deals. Whether you're looking to find new opportunities today or ensure your future place, PwC can help.

Business Unit Overview

Our rapidly-growing Financial Crime team supports many of the firm's leading clients, largely within the banking and financial services sector. We cover a broad range of financial crime-related work for clients, including reviewing compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, undertaking sanctions and transaction monitoring reviews.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a senior, experienced financial crime technology practitioner to join our growing Middle East Financial Crime team.

Requirements

We are specifically looking for the following skills and experience:

- Extensive knowledge in banking IT systems.
- Experience in system implementation and/or product development (Agile and Waterfall methodologies)
- Experience in the current state assessment, optimization and implementation of vendor software including transaction monitoring systems, sanctions screening and fraud prevention/detection systems
- Experience reviewing data flows within financial crime technology solutions including data profiling and quality assessments
- Experience in analyzing vast quantities of data using Data Analytics applications such as (SQL, Alteryx, R, Python, Tableau and PowerBI)
- Preferably experienced in big data technologies such Hadoop and NoSQL databases, Lucene, Elastic search
- Experience in AML/Compliance transformation programs
- Be able to provide subject matter expertise / support on a range of financial crime engagements
- Preferably have knowledge of the local market in the Middle East and/or local relationships
- Capable of developing new financial crime technology propositions and actively taking them to market

What is in it for you?
You will be supporting the growth of our broader Financial Crime practice, supported by our team of specialist practitioners.

You will be encouraged to continuously develop your career and grow within the team; and you will encourage others to do the same. You will work in an environment where you will be encouraged to be dynamic and imaginative with the emphasis always on serving clients' needs.

The role will be based in Dubai, however as a result of the wide variety of clients and projects, you may be asked to work in other locations within the Middle East and beyond, sometimes at short notice and sometimes over lengthy periods of time. Your desire and ability to do this will be discussed as part of the recruitment process. Candidates who are unable or do not wish to work on projects in other locations will still be considered.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.