Line of Service
Advisory
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
Fraud, Investigations & Regulatory Enforcement (FIRE)
Management Level
Senior Associate
Job Description & Summary
Closing Date: 4pm 15 December
Qualification: No ACA qualification is required for this role
Location: London ML
About the team & role
In Deals we solve the important problems that stand in the way of value being created, sustained, realised or protected for our clients – working together to aid responsible recovery and growth.
Working on iconic deals with national and global clients, we put together major mergers and acquisitions and resolve business crises – from international take-over bids to financial crime investigations and cases of insolvency.
We draw upon our deals experience across many industries to support and partner with our clients, to positively impact society and the communities in which we operate.
Restructuring & Forensics
In Restructuring & Forensics we focus on supporting our clients through the Protect and Recover stages of the business cycle.
We combine restructuring services such as financial restructuring, liability restructuring and corporate simplification with Digital and Forensic Investigations and Financial Crime teams.
We support clients in stress or distress situations, seeking to support them to respond, restructure and transform, as well as prepare for, respond to and emerge stronger from a wide range of business risks and issues. We could be involved in any one, or all of these types of engagements.
Who we are looking for
Our vision stands at the centre of all that we do: We will be at the forefront of the urgent, ever-changing fight against financial crime – inventive in our methods, adaptive in our technology, and imaginative in our alliances.
With this at our core, and feeling the human consequences of financial crime, we can shape the ongoing fight against it, so businesses succeed, people thrive and communities flourish.
The Financial Crime team in the UK works with clients to manage business risk through: responsive and robust investigations driven by situational expertise and analytics, remediation built around technologies to improve efficiency, transformation projects that help clients emerge stronger from unplanned events, and working with our clients to change their financial crime functions for the better through enhanced controls, monitoring systems, analytics, improved policy and procedures, more effective risk management, and reduction in costs.
A career in our team will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients navigate through complex challenges.
As part of our team, you'll provide support to our clients by targeting their areas of concern and developing strategies so that they can always be confident in their exposure to risk.
The team brings together a mix set of capabilities to help clients prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of Financial Crime threats, risks and complex issues.
We are currently looking for an experienced senior associate with expertise in the domain of market abuse and surveillance.
Specifically, the successful candidate must have hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: market abuse surveillance operational procedures including the process of managing and closing out populations of alerts from either e-communications or trade surveillance platforms; familiarity with a range of surveillance vendor technologies; knowledge of MAR and MiFID II regulation; significant technical knowledge of one or more wholesale banking asset classes; working with trade and order transactional data; tuning lexicons and machine learning models for false positive reduction. We have ambitious plans and are looking for individuals who can develop and build our data and technology capability and bolster our market abuse and surveillance capability.
Responsibilities
In this role, the successful candidate will be expected to work on a range of client engagement with UK and multinational financial services clients. We support our clients with a range of services:
* Surveillance vendor evaluations and support for surveillance strategic roadmaps.
* Market abuse surveillance implementation and calibration (e.g. detection scenarios, instance identification, parameter setting and tuning, lexicon refinement, model tuning).
* Data driven surveillance effectiveness review and optimisation.
* Reviewing end-to-end data and process flow supporting surveillance implementations.
* Assistance in responding to regulatory enquiries.
* The role responsibilities will include the following:
* Supporting senior team members in scoping, managing and delivering complex risk assessment and data driven surveillance engagements.
* Providing day-to-day support for deployment of augmented market abuse surveillance operating models and vendor solutions.
* Actively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverables.
* Providing and applying industry knowledge of the practical needs of market abuse surveillance teams, including the development of policies and targeted procedures for alert disposition.
* Supporting senior team members in developing market abuse propositions and delivery methodologies that will add value to our clients.
* Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients.
* Development of the technical architecture behind our surveillance offerings.
* Development of lexicon and machine learning model refinement methodology and procedures behind our surveillance offerings
Essential skills and experience
In order to be successful you will need to show ability in most of the following areas:
* Experience in using data analysis and visualisation tools (Python, SQL, Alteryx, Tableau).
* Display a keen interest in technology across the financial crime space.
* Ability to clearly articulate technical approaches and concepts to clients and non-technical audiences.
* Experience in developing or implementing methods for tuning lexicons and machine learning models for false positive reduction within communications surveillance systems.
* Experience of providing MI and summarising data for senior stakeholders.
* Ability to clearly articulate complex concepts to clients and non-technical audiences.
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Travel Requirements
Not Specified
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
No
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