Hybrid Financial Crime Consulting Director

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About the role

  • Directing Financial Crime Advisory practice growth while mentoring a high-performing team in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC.

Responsibilities

  • Lead delivery of complex, multi-workstream FCC engagements across KSA and the GCC
  • Serve as senior engagement lead and SME across core FCC domains
  • Provide hands-on expert guidance on selection, implementation, and tuning of leading sanctions screening and TM platforms
  • Review and quality-assure all deliverables prior to client submission
  • Mentor and develop junior and mid-level team members
  • Recruit, build, and manage a high-performing FCC advisory team in KSA

Requirements

  • 15+ years total professional experience
  • 10+ years FCC advisory / consulting experience
  • 5+ years FCC advisory sales / BD (selling to banks)
  • 10+ years FCC project execution
  • Must have worked with local GCC banks
  • Must have built and managed a team
  • USD 1m+ revenue per annum from managed accounts
  • Big 4 / Tier 1 consulting / specialist advisory (preferred)
  • Deep, hands-on expertise in gap assessments — AML/CFT, sanctions, anti-bribery
  • Sanctions and TM model validation — methodology design, parameter testing, threshold calibration
  • Alert reduction, false-positive management
  • Remediation frameworks, look-back design, file review, risk-based segmentation
  • Financial Crime Risk Assessments
  • AML/CFT programme design and implementation
  • KSA regulations knowledge
  • Digital, Innovation & Data Science capabilities
  • Strong understanding of RegTech, AI/ML, and automation

Job title

Financial Crime Consulting Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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