Senior Consultant - Risk Consulting - FCC Transformation - Cairo - Egypt

Successful organizations depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to maintain stakeholder trust. EY FCC professionals help organizations protect and restore enterprise and financial reputation. We assist companies and their legal counsel to investigate facts, resolve disputes and manage regulatory challenges. We put integrity at the heart of compliance programs to help better manage ethical and reputational risks.

Embracing integrity means doing what you say you will do, with unerring commitment. This can make it easier to attract and retain talented people and harness their skills to grow your business. A foundation built on integrity is critical because today’s talent values purpose-driven organizations. It can also help you develop stronger partnerships with suppliers and work more effectively with employees, investors, regulators and influencers. Our integrated approach ranges from enhancements in areas of perceived weakness or issues — including governance, controls, culture and data insights — to full organizational design and structural implementation.

The opportunity

As a Senior Consultant in the FCC team, you are required to provide strategic sourcing services related to regulatory compliance, financial crime compliance (FCC), corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls to our clients. You are also required to assist organizations to maintain effective and efficient controls, in order to manage organizational and strategic risks. 

Service Delivery Related

• Financial Crime Compliance framework functional knowledge
• Techno-functional capabilities and experience in carrying out compliance transformation program (pertaining to Current state assessments for financial crime compliance systems and processes)
• Tech consulting or transformation background and worked across global banks to support Financial Crime Compliance program
• Financial Crime products techno-functional knowledge (preferably worked on products like Actimize/Mantas/Quantexa/Fircosoft etc)
• Previous AML transformation experience across technology, people, process and governance would be preferred
• Demonstrate AML industry expertise (detailed understanding of the industry, trends, issues/challenges and leading practices)
• Demonstrate ability of multi-task and manage multiple projects as directed by the managers
• Ensure compliance with engagement plans and internal quality & risk management procedures.
• Develop strong working relationships with client (process owner/functional heads).

Good to have

• Strong understanding of AML data structure and lineage, detection scenario logic, customer segmentation, typology assessment, Threshold Tuning and MIS reporting
• Strong understanding of Customer risk assessment and due diligence processes- CDD/EDD life cycle, name screening and integration with transaction monitoring
• Strong understanding of Customer risk assessment and due diligence processes- CDD/EDD life cycle, name screening and integration with transaction monitoring

People related

• Demonstrate the ability and commitment on assigned responsibilities.
• Provide real-time constructive verbal feedback to team members and facilitate timely completion of engagement review forms.
• Contribute to effective team work in internal engagement situation.
• Support knowledge sharing efforts and continually improves processes so that the work team can capture and leverage knowledge

Skills and attributes for success

• Awareness of AML framework and products functional knowledge.
• Actively establish & strengthen client (functional heads & key influencers) and internal relationships.
• Determine that the work delivered is of high quality.
• Assist seniors & managers in developing new methodologies and internal initiatives.

To qualify for the role you must have

• 2-4 years of experience in Financial crime compliance domain as functional or techno-functional consultant
• Strong educational background from a top institution, quantitative/ finance/ economics/ actuarial programme.
• Good to have certifications like ACAMS
• Good to have Big4 experience 

Ideally you’ll also have

• Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills
• Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative
• Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative way to provide services across multiple client departments while adhering to commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.

​​​​​​​What working at EY offers

With more than 200,000 clients, 300,000 people globally and 33,000 people in India, EY has become the strongest brand and the most attractive employer in our field, with market-leading growth over compete. Our people work side-by-side with market-leading entrepreneurs, game- changers, disruptors and visionaries. As an organisation, we are investing more time, technology and money, than ever before in skills and learning for our people. At EY, you will have a personalized Career Journey and also the chance to tap into the resources of our career frameworks to better know about your roles, skills and opportunities.

EY is equally committed to being an inclusive employer and we strive to achieve the right balance for our people - enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing our people to build their career as well as focus on their wellbeing. If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.