Audit/Assurance (AVP) - Financial Crime
Posted 1 day ago by Deloitte
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This role involves providing independent audit and assurance reviews focused on financial crime risk, including AML, sanctions, and fraud, for a major banking client at Deloitte Operations. The position requires hands-on internal audit experience and the ability to engage with senior stakeholders to support remediation efforts. The role is hybrid, requiring 2-3 days a week onsite in London, and is expected to last between 3 to 6 months. The position is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver independent audit and assurance reviews covering financial crime risk, including AML, sanctions, fraud, and related controls
- Assess effectiveness of governance, policies, and control frameworks
- Identify control weaknesses and provide practical, risk-based recommendations
- Engage with senior stakeholders to support remediation and continuous improvement
- Contribute to audit planning and reporting activities
Key Skills:
- Hands-on Internal Audit experience
- Good knowledge of audit processes, finding management, and remediation work
- Experience in drafting and improving closure packs
- Familiarity with s166 programs
- Ability to work with senior stakeholders and manage conflicting priorities
- Strong planning and multitasking skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Transaction monitoring or financial crime experience (nice to have)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role: Audit/Assurance (AVP) - Financial Crime
Location: Hybrid - London 2-3 days a week onsite/remote
Start: ASAP
Duration: 3-6 months (inside IR35)
This is an exciting opportunity to join Deloitte Operations for an engagement with one of our premiere Banking clients.
Overall purpose the role
We are looking for an individual with Audit/Assurance experience within Financial Crime, and 3rd Line (3LOD)
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver independent audit and assurance reviews covering financial crime risk, including AML, sanctions, fraud, and related controls
- Assess effectiveness of governance, policies, and control frameworks
- Identify control weaknesses and provide practical, risk-based recommendations
- Engage with senior stakeholders to support remediation and continuous improvement
- Contribute to audit planning and reporting activities
Requirements :
- Hands-on Internal Audit experience, and good knowledge of how audits are carried out, finding management, remediation work, validation of remediating actions, evidence gathering and assessment, etc.
- Experience in how good recommendation closure packs look like, what should be included (content and format) to explain the remediating action taken to address the finding, how the remediating action achieves that and what evidence must be provided (content and format) to prove that the remediating action has not only been carried out but it is also embedded
- Hands-on experience in drafting or improving closure packs to satisfy internal audit standards
- Ideally experience with s166 programs, not only from a project management or remediating action perspective, but more importantly regarding documenting the remediating actions and drafting closure packs
- Experience in working with senior stakeholder across different departments and handling varying/conflicting priorities and agendas
- Ability to drive discussions and cooperation, to present cases and issues, to ask for and obtain evidence, and to achieve results within tight deadlines
- Ability to plan, multitask, and react/adjust quickly and successfully to shifting priorities and demands
- Ability to work under pressure, to deliver top quality results, and to meet challenging deadlines
- Roll up sleeves, hands-on approach
- Nice to have Transaction monitoring or financial crime experience