Financial Crime Director

Location: London - Hybrid working, 3 days in the London office per week

Practice: Financial Crime, Compliance & Transformation

Type: Full‑time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Crime Director to help lead, grow, and deliver our Financial Crime Advisory and Transformation practice. This senior role blends market development, hands‑on delivery, and strategic advisory across AML, sanctions, remediation, and broader compliance transformation.

The right candidate will thrive in an entrepreneurial and collaborative environment, with genuine autonomy and long-term progression potential.

Key Responsibilities

Business Development & Market Growth

• Build, manage, and convert your own pipeline of opportunities.
• Drive business development activity across new and existing clients.
• Lead networking, market engagement, and proposition development efforts.
• Develop lasting senior client relationships based on trust and delivery excellence.

Engagement Leadership & Delivery

• Lead significant AML and sanctions remediation programmes, regulatory uplift, and financial crime transformation projects.
• Deliver work hands‑on — combining high-level advisory with practical execution.
• Work closely with legal colleagues on multidisciplinary matters.
• Ensure high standards of quality, regulatory compliance, and engagement governance.

Advisory & Subject Matter Expertise

• Provide expert guidance on AML, sanctions, operating models, and financial crime frameworks.
• Advise senior executives and regulatory stakeholders confidently.
• Offer insight into emerging regulatory expectations, risks, and industry trends.

Practice Leadership

• Help develop the Financial Crime practice’s people, propositions, and capabilities.
• Mentor and support the growth of junior team members.
• Contribute to shaping a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture.

About You

Background

You will have a strong consulting background gained in:

• A major consulting or professional services firm, or
• A specialist advisory firm focused on regulatory, financial crime, or compliance consulting.

Applicants from purely in-house positions will only be considered if they have substantial previous consulting experience.

Experience & Skills

• Demonstrable ability to originate, win, and deliver advisory or project-based consulting work.
• Strong background in AML and/or sanctions advisory, remediation, and transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to earn senior‑level client trust and advocacy.
• Hands-on delivery capability as well as strategic oversight.
• Excellent commercial judgement, communication, and stakeholder management.
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and self-directed in building business and relationships.

Personal Qualities

• Collaborative and team‑oriented.
• High integrity and strong client-service mindset.
• Comfortable in a flexible, fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
• Motivated to help build a growing practice.

What We Offer

• A senior leadership role with real influence and autonomy.
• A genuinely entrepreneurial and collaborative culture.
• A highly competitive salary and benefits package, aligned to senior leadership expectations.
• Clear progression opportunities.
• Exposure to high-profile financial crime and regulatory transformation work.
• The opportunity to work closely with both advisory and legal experts on complex matters.