Your responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to enhance IT systems or operational processes for financial crimes regulatory compliance within financial services firms.
• Engage with Clients to understand their unique needs and goals, focusing on regulatory remediation, process and technology improvements, and providing insights through enabling technologies.
• Ability to understand and respond to client needs while keeping up-to-date with the latest AI and machine learning trends used for preventing financial crimes.
• EY.AI - in this role, your capabilities are augmented by artificial intelligence. With AI-powered solutions your analyses, insights and innovative ideas will reach a higher level. Starting with a series of training sessions, you will then use EYQ - your virtual assistant, along with other unique tools often available exclusively at EY. We continuously invest in innovation to provide you with a work environment where you can focus on the most interesting aspects of your job and create the best solutions for clients.

Our requirements

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with technology consultants through all phases of project life-cycle.
• Ability to research client inquiries and understand emerging issues in financial crimes compliance, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies.
• Willingness to travel as needed to meet client requirements.
• Strong analytical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to convey and present complex findings in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Completed degree study in computer science, engineering, information systems, management technology, statistics, or a related field. An advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in the same field or an MBA is preferred.
• More than three years’ related work experience at a financial services or management consulting company, or comparable experience advising financial services firm.
• Competency in languages such as Python, R, Scala or Spark for machine-learning purposes.
• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. German language skills are a definite plus.
• Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills.
• High standard of integrity and confidentiality.

Optional

• Financial crimes compliance, Anti-Money Laundering (AML); Transaction Monitoring; Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD); sanctions and payment screening; trading compliance within brokerage, banking and asset management; asset management compliance and surveillance.
• Experience working with one or more technology platforms in the financial services compliance or financial crime domains (e.g. Nice Actimize, Oracle Mantas, Pega, Fircosoft, Safe Banking Systems, LexisNexis Bridger).
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure, and distributed systems (e.g. Hadoop, Spark).
• Experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or other.
• Experience working with various algorithms such as decision trees, neural networks, logistic regression.
• Experience working with visualization tools (e.g. Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview).
• Experience in one or more of the following analytical areas: machine learning, link analysis and relationship discovery systems, quantitative model development (i.e., statistical model development), data mapping and conversion using extract-transform-load (ETL) development).
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: definition and design of business, functional and technical requirements; system selection and implementation support; Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC); Quality Assurance and testing (QA); program/project management and implementation planning (PMO).
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) or ICA International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering or equivalent certifications.

What we offer

• Continuous learning - You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you - We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership - We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture - You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• Support in acquiring qualifications and certificates.
• Udemy for Business – access to over 3000 courses.
• Go Fluent – platform that offers language courses on various levels.
• EY Badges – global certification of your competencies and an opportunity to earn an MBA title of a reputable Hult International Business School.
• Career Counselor – assigned experienced advisor, who will support your career growth in EY.
• Innovate EY – unique program thanks to which you can create your own start-up utilizing our know-how and financing.
• EY Care&Wellness – benefits program.

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

We help leading financial institutions in the world stay ahead of key regulatory requirements in the Banking and Capital Markets, Asset Management and Insurance spaces and provide integrated advisory, assurance, tax and transaction services. We aim to deliver industry leading regulatory and technology insights to help our clients mitigate risks to their business.

At EY, we hire professionals from around the world who have a diverse range of financial services, regulatory and technology backgrounds. This allows us to provide a broad range of advisory services in areas such as financial crimes, consumer compliance, regulatory transformation, traded products and wealth management.

The opportunity

As a member of the Financial Crimes Consulting team you’ll assist global financial services firms with technology improvement in a broad range of regulatory compliance areas. You’ll be assisting initiatives that provide strategic enhancement of IT systems or operational processes supporting financial crimes risk management. You’ll be in a client facing role through enabling technologies in anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions.