Overview 

Contineo is strengthening our capabilities in AFC as our clients continue to face significant challenges in the sanctions environment. A core component of the team is to service our clients by reviewing, optimising and advising on their sanctions screening solutions, mainly around name and transaction screening and to manage the constantly shifting and demanding regulatory requirements. 

As a company we deliver a large range of projects both on a proactive and reactive basis in Sanctions, AML and KYC Risk Management including Internal Audit reviews, regulatory support, reviewing and enhancing policies and procedures, tuning and optimisation and working on a range of Sanctions, AML and Fraud technology solutions.

The successful individual will support the delivery of a range of financial crime projects. Each project will generally incorporate a review and assessment of the current state of an Anti-Financial Crime solution, leading a team on-site, discussing matters directly with the client, proposing and delivering solutions and providing oral presentations and high quality written documents.

Core responsibilities 

As a Consultant, you will be expected to support successful completion of project work plan. You should demonstrate excellent client service and assists team members with project deliverables.

At the direction of Managers or Senior Consultants you will assist with the preparation of deliverables.

The individual will also be expected to participate in marketing, knowledge sharing and practice development. 

Key responsibilities

• Strong interest and commitment to understanding and developing leading edge financial crime. prevention solutions to our industry clients
• Support technical delivery on projects relating to anti-financial crime, in particular development of tuning and optimisation solutions for sanctions screening and transaction monitoring systems, conducting reviews of client’s processes and procedures, support clients with regulatory reviews and other independent anti-financial crime reviews, advising on anti-financial crime technology, optimisation and remediation programmes

• Intellectual strength / flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and rationalise these into workable solutions which can then be delivered
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology skills

Technical skills 

• A technical degree or technical qualification
• You are passionate about evaluating, synthesising, organising and interpreting data and information.

Personal skills / values

• Confidence to be able to quickly establish credibility in your work
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Proven ability to work with diverse teams 
• Excellent analytical skills and problem solving, self-motivation and proactive approach
• A high degree of integrity and the drive and willingness to succeed; and
• Strong team ethos and ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure