Legal Risk & Compliance – Financial Crimes Compliance Senior Consultant

You Belong Here  

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.   

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm. 

Where We Need You 

Protiviti is looking for a Legal, Risk and Compliance Senior Consultant to join our growing Financial Crime Compliance team.  

Protiviti’s Financial Services practice is widely recognized as a leading provider of consulting services across the three lines of defense for financial institutions. We empower our clients to be more effective and efficient in a way that is risk-sensitive, regulatory compliant, well controlled, and enabled by leading technologies.   

What You Can Expect 

As a Senior Consultant, you will be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Interns and Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans. You’ll identify areas of risk and opportunities to increase efficiency. You’ll strengthen relationships and deepen your abilities to communicate, gain trust, and network with client personnel and professional associates.  At the direction of Managers, you may accept responsibility for decision-making in areas including establishing project scope and work plans, project staffing, preparation of deliverables, and application of methodologies.  By focusing on clients and engagements in the financial services industry, you’ll partner with highly regulated clients and deepen your understanding of financial services regulations. 

What Will Help You Be Successful 

• You enjoy identifying and assessing financial crime compliance risks within a business. 

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to operation and enterprise risk, including the latest trends and developments.  

• You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing clients with exceptional experiences. 

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.  

• You contribute to a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.  

• You create development opportunities for others and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. 

• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across the financial services industry.   

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Do Your Talents Include the Following? 

Experience with any of the following: 

• Broad expertise in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), with a particular focus on fraud and fraud risk management capabilities. Projects involving money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion, fraud, and other financial crime.  

• Executing compliance monitoring, internal controls risk assessments, and internal controls testing activities to ensure policy and procedural manuals, internal controls, and operational practices are reasonably designed, risk-based, and effective.  

• Analyzing current and emerging regulations and assessing their applicability to the business. 

• Supporting the development and/or implementation of financial crime risk management policies and procedures. 

• Monitoring effectiveness and report on financial crime compliance activities. 

• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with regulations and best practices. 

• Supporting audits, effectiveness reviews, and investigations related to financial crime compliance activities.  

• Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.  

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network.  

• Ability to translate and communicate operational and enterprise risks to client personnel, including executives.  

• Supervisory experience of teams including mentoring, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.   

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (business, finance, or a related field).  

• Experience in conducting audits of financial crime compliance programs and risk assessments.  

• 2+ years working directly in financial crime risk, compliance, or audit either in professional services or the financial services industry in Canada.  

•  Proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Copilot is a plus model risk experience is a plus.  

• Professional Certification such as Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or actively pursuing these certifications is required.  

Our Hybrid Workplace 

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.   

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job. 

$72,000.00 – $108,000.00