Financial Crime

Would you like to be an integral part of a fast growing, agile and dynamic financial crime team?

**Forvis Mazars** is looking for a passionate junior financial crime professional, at their start of their career, to join our Financial Crime (“FC”) team, where you will focus on providing support to both regulated (Financial Services) and non-regulated firms across various areas, including:

- Anti-Money laundering (AML), Counter terrorist financing (CTF) and Proliferation Financing (PF)
- Fraud
- Sanctions
- Bribery & Corruption
- Tax Evasion
- Market Abuse

**Role & Responsibilities**

You will work alongside a diverse and experienced group where your personal development is at the forefront of our culture. This is an exciting role, with ample career progression and professional development opportunities, working on a variety of high-profile financial crime engagements, providing experience across a range of sectors and developing a diverse skill sets.

Our typical assignments include:

- Supporting firms with regulatory driven reviews including Skilled Person Reviews (s166).
- Sanctions compliance reviews and look back investigations.
- Independent assessments of financial crime frameworks (policies, procedures and controls).
- Financial Crime Business Wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) design and delivery.
- Customer Risk Assessment model design, testing and implementation.
- Operational effectiveness testing of financial crime controls.
- Financial Crime compliance and remediation programme design, delivery and assurance.
- Financial Crime operating model assessment and redesign.
- Financial Crime training design, delivery and assessment.

As a Junior Executive, you will assist with, and learn about, a variety of tasks, including:

- Performing gap analyses of an organisation's approach to dealing with financial crime risks against regulatory requirements, including those relating to anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption and market abuse.
- Supporting managers with fact-finding interviews for financial crime assignments.
- Supporting the independent assessment of financial crime frameworks (policies, procedures, controls).
- Helping to design and deliver Financial Crime Training for our clients.
- Undertaking quantitative analysis which will feed directly into our findings/ client deliverables (and, in some cases, expert evidence).
- Undertaking desktop research and collate information for team members.
- Assisting senior colleagues with preparing tables, charts, exhibits and appendices for inclusion in reports.
- Contributing to the efficient operation of each project assignment by proactively providing support to senior colleagues.
- Assisting in the design of project plans and working papers for financial crime assignments.
- Assisting in the preparation of first draft deliverables for, and helping present these to, our clients.
- Contributing to non-chargeable work in the team, including:

- the preparation of client proposals
- helping to coordinate and attending financial crime events at our offices
- developing contacts across the financial crime related sector
- drafting articles for our website and for media
- identifying opportunities to use technology to better serve our clients and perform our work more efficiently.

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**

The FC team has built a strong reputation in the market for the high quality of work it produces. This is a result of the FC team being comprised of individuals with a commitment to quality in every aspect of their work.

Specifically, our team members demonstrate:

- Attention to detail.
- Analytical skills - the ability to think critically, research and solve problems.
- Proactiveness and enthusiasm.
- Interpersonal skills - the ability to build client and colleague relationships with a foundation of trust and responsibility.
- Credible and effective communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Commitment to self-development & learning.
- Actively seeks to enhance own expertise and knowledge.
- Demonstrates drive and commitment to self-development.
- Professional approach to work and clients i.e. professional appearance, respect for individuals, and ethical conduct.
- Affinity with our values; in particular, respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.
- Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self - academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. We balance your academic results alongside the aptitude assessment within our recruitment process to ensure that you will be successful in your role with us._

**Learning & Development**

We offer a diverse range of experiences, with prestigious clients and dynamic projects across a range of sectors and geographies. We offer an excellent technical grounding and real responsibility from the