Associate Director - Financial Crime Technology

Beyondfs; City of London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial consulting firm in London is seeking a seasoned technology leader to drive financial crime programmes. The role includes managing complex transformations and engaging with senior stakeholders. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in the financial services sector and demonstrate expertise in technology management and financial crime strategies. The position offers competitive compensation and a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

25 days holiday

Flexible benefits

Structured training

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial services with banking and consulting experience.
• Experience in building and leading technology teams for financial crime.
• Ability to design and implement target-state architectures.

Responsibilities

• Shape and develop business propositions.
• Lead and manage complex transformation programmes.
• Directly contribute to sales and business development.

Skills

Strong technology leadership

Excellent communication

Technical business analysis

Financial Crime domain knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Actimize

Fenergo

Quantexa

Atlassian

LLMs

Job description

The Opportunity

BeyondFS helps financial institutions build high-performing Financial Crime programmes that reduce risk, satisfy regulators, and run efficiently. Clients turn to us when their change or remediation programmes aren’t delivering effectively or fast enough, when new regulations arise, or when they need clearer insight into their risks and stronger capability to manage them. We apply proven, practical methods that restore confidence, regain control, build momentum, and deliver the results clients need.

By rolling up our sleeves and working alongside client teams, we make Financial Crime programmes stronger, more efficient, and able to sustain results long after we’ve gone.

As a leader of our business, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects and help shape and build our company as we grow. We are not for the faint-hearted, and you will need to be comfortable working in a fast‑paced, customer and people‑first environment. In return, you can expect to join a supportive, collaborative team who genuinely care about each other and like to have fun along the way. You will be working alongside some of the best consultants in the industry, where everyone takes pride in celebrating both individual and collective success.

Responsibilities

• Shape, develop and grow BeyondFS propositions.
• Directly contribute to BeyondFS’ sales and business development through achieving your own targets.
• Lead and deliver our complex transformation programmes, grow our client accounts.
• Contribute towards recruitment objectives, and other people‑related activities.
• Lead and manage internal projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial services within banking and consulting, with exposure to a large range of products and geographies.
• Proven experience in building, leading, developing and motivating technology teams in the financial crime space.
• Experience in designing and delivering target‑state architectures that align with the business strategy and vision, including across the full enterprise scope – people, processes, data, applications, controls.
• Acumen with the typical technologies and solutions used by 1st line financial crime, non‑financial regulatory, or closely associated operational functions.
• Ability to evaluate technology solutions and understand if/how they can be optimised for greater performance and effectiveness.
• An interest and practical understanding of emerging models and technologies and how they can be used to better detect and prevent financial crime, including how to secure confidence of key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Demonstrable expertise in building and leading effective technology programmes, using varied methodologies and frameworks – from traditional to agile – that are most appropriate for the task at hand.
• Deep understanding of how to effectively assess current technology, with a view to helping our clients to select and implement the most appropriate vendors and tools in the Financial Crime space.
• Senior‑level stakeholder engagement, including C‑suite relationship building and sponsorship management.
• Demonstrable sales origination and client development experience, including securing and expanding key accounts.
• Track record in shaping and growing consulting practices, including go‑to‑market strategies and internal development.
• Team leadership and people development, including coaching, training and recruiting consulting teams.

Skillset

• Excellent communicator with a passion for unlocking the value of technology, able to effectively communicate complex ideas to non‑technical audiences.
• Credible technology leader and strategist.
• Technology programme management.
• Expert in technical business analysis and requirements generation.
• Proficient with key tools, frameworks, platforms, vendor solutions, e.g., Actimize, Fenergo, Quantexa, Atlassian, cloud, LLMs.
• Enterprise architecture.
• Financial Crime domain knowledge (TM, KYC, etc.), key regulatory frameworks, and typical money laundering typologies.
• AI model and related technology design.
• Model validation and explainability, including tuning, calibration, reporting.
• Practical understanding of delivering change in complex, multi‑disciplinary environments.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive remuneration: base salary from £105k depending on experience, up to 10% sales bonus, up to 10% bonus based on company performance and up to 10% personal performance bonus (up to 30% in total).
• Leave: 25 days holiday increasing by a day for each year in service to a total of 29 days (plus your birthday off).
• Additional leave: you can buy extra days up to a maximum of 30 per year.
• Flexible benefits: £3000 annual allowance from day one of employment to allocate as you wish (private medical insurance, critical illness cover, extra holiday, cash, electric car and ride‑to‑work schemes available on successful completion of probation).
• A structured training approach.
• Pension scheme.
• Family: enhanced pay for maternity, adoption and paternity leave.

Location

We work in our serviced office space in London, with client‑based working when needed. We ensure a well‑stocked fridge (including non‑alcoholic alternatives!), fruit, snacks and treats, and have access to all six One Avenue Group spaces across London.