AML / Financial Crime Compliance Consultant - Freelance

Context

A leading international organisation operating in a highly regulated and multi-jurisdictional environment is looking for an experienced AML / Financial Crime Compliance Consultant to reinforce its Group Corporate Compliance function.

The consultant will operate within the second line of defence, providing independent oversight, advice and challenge to business and first-line compliance teams.

The main focus will be on AML/CFT, KYC/CDD, fraud and sanctions compliance, with occasional support on ethics and conduct topics such as anti-bribery and corruption, gifts and entertainment, and conflicts of interest.

The assignment requires a hands-on compliance professional who can combine subject-matter expertise, control capabilities, project delivery and stakeholder management.

Missions

• Performing and reviewing KYC, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence files
• Challenging first-line assessments and decisions for higher-risk customers
• Conducting second-line controls and thematic reviews
• Testing the application of financial crime policies and procedures
• Supporting fraud risk assessments and fraud case documentation
• Contributing to sanctions screening and escalation processes
• Providing day-to-day AML/CFT and financial crime compliance advice to business teams
• Monitoring regulatory developments relating to AML/CFT, fraud and sanctions
• Maintaining regulatory watch documentation and preparing impact assessments
• Contributing to the implementation of new AML regulatory requirements
• Documenting findings and monitoring remediation plans
• Preparing periodic reporting for Corporate Compliance management
• Supporting compliance transformation and tooling initiatives
• Contributing to the selection, implementation, calibration, migration or optimisation of AML-related tools
• Coordinating stakeholders across Group and local entities

Depending on priorities and workload, the consultant may also provide occasional support on anti-bribery and corruption, gifts and entertainment, conflicts of interest and insider-list monitoring.

Deliverables

• KYC, CDD and EDD review files
• Financial crime control plans and thematic review reports
• Control findings and remediation tracking
• Fraud case documentation and fraud prevention materials
• Regulatory watch entries and impact assessments
• Contributions to AML regulatory implementation projects
• Input to AML tooling and compliance transformation initiatives
• Periodic management reporting
• Ad hoc contributions to ethics and conduct registers

Languages

• English: Bilingual