Senior Consultant in Financial Services

  • Full-time

Company Description

Sia Partners is a unique global management consulting firm composed of 950+ passionate consultants who drive business changes among our customers. Through unparalleled industry expertise, we deliver superior value and tangible results to our clients in over 21 sectors and service teams.

Sia Partners has been present in the US since 2012 through an acquisition of a well-established consulting firm specialized in Financial Services, Oil & Gas and Energy. It has enjoyed continuous growth since: the US is now its second biggest market.

Sia Partners is hiring! Thanks to Sia Partners’ international footprint, the Financial Services and Gas Oil & Energy practices are strategically located in all major financial and energy hubs (New York, Charlotte, Houston, UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific) and our integrated model allows teams from different countries to easily partner, when appropriate.

Job Description

Sia Partners Houston,Texas is searching for an individual that has 1-3 years of Management Consulting experience in AML/KYC On boarding Remediation in Financial Services. This individual would be considered a Consultant or Senior Consultant based on experience and skills.

This individual must be sharp, driven and have strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.

If you are a self-starter, driven and equipped with entrepreneurial fiber, you are ready to take the challenge in a fast growing worldwide company.

As part of the internal activities development, you will be involved in the following:

  • Development and improvement of our offers via training sessions and workshops.
  •  Strong participation in the capitalization workshops (blog, whitepapers…).
  •  Possess business development and relationship management skills.

AML/KYC On-boarding Expertise:

This individual will face off with our Financial Service client(s) and be an advisor to the lines of business regarding implementation and remediation of AML controls and escalating AML issues.
  
At our Financial Service client (s) the Senior Consultant will liaise with multiple business line management teams to provide recommendations to develop AML processes that follow the rules, regulations and sanctions in regards to; customer on-boarding, customer refresh and name scanning.
  • Execute and maintain AML controls, participating in sanctions risk control.
  • Review and approve high risk customers
  • Oversee the completion of Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD).
  • Process EDD exception requests from the line of business to ensure they are properly approved and tracked.
  • Ensure changes are integrated into enterprise-wide country risk program.
  • Maintain and continually ensure that the PEP and Sanctions lists are up to date.
  • Review potential sanction hits and escalate confirmed hits.
  • Assist in the self-assessment and remediation of AML controls.
  • Coordinate execution of the AML Enterprise Risk Assessment for each line of business.
  • Develop and overseeing AML remediation plans.
  • Verify correction of identified control weaknesses.
  • Work with management to respond to issues raised by AML audits and examinations.
  • Identify AML training needs in the line of business, and assist with developing the presentations for the training.
  • Develop and report AML metrics and prepare management reports for the Business Risk team.

Qualifications

  • Strong academic background (e.g. Business,  Economics, Literature, Political Science, Engineering)
  • At least 1-3 years in management consulting or financial services.
  • Experience as a Project Manager or Business Analyst.
  • Hiring at multiple levels based on experience level.
  • Outstanding team player, autonomous, dynamic, result oriented, rigorous and committee.
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and able to communicate complex ideas to all areas of the business.
  • Flexibility, able to execute against tight deadlines, work with minimum supervision, exercise independent judgment and prioritize work.
  • Requires limited travel



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