EY Senior Consultant -Forensics - FCC Cairo 

Egypt, Cairo, Cairo 

244569230

As a Senior, you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You’ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.

Your key responsibilities

As a Senior Consultant in the Forensics team, you are required to contribute to support and deliver on engagements related to regulatory compliance, Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), corporate governance, fraud risk assessments, enterprise risk management, internal controls to our clients. You would also need to understand the technical aspects of the FCC system relevant to CDD, AML monitoring and payment screening. You are also required to use techniques to improve transaction monitoring and sanction screening defenses for the financial services sector.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Minimum of two plus years of experience in the Financial Crime Compliance domain.
• Experienced in FCC-related projects, such as payments screening, transaction monitoring, &/or customer risk rating preferably at a large/ complex financial institution.
• Working experience on engagements related to white collar crimes, financial crime compliance, corporate compliance
• Review and investigate alerts generated from payment/transaction screening systems.
• Analyze potential matches against sanctions lists (e.g., OFAC, UN, EU, local lists) to determine true/false positives.
• Assess vessels, ports, counterparties, and goods involved in trade transactions for red flags and prohibited activities.
• Evaluate alerts relating to customers, beneficial owners, directors, and related parties.
• Escalate confirmed hits to relevant department for final disposition
• Flexibility to travel to the MENA region for client engagements when required
• Fluent English communication skills
• Industry related certification (e.g., CAMS or ICA diploma in AML).

Ideally, you’ll also have

• 2–4 years of hands-on experience in sanctions screening, with direct exposure to transaction, trade, and customer screening.
• Strong understanding of global sanctions regimes (OFAC, UN, EU, UK HMT, and local regulatory requirements).
• Experience with sanctions screening systems
• Strong analytical and investigative skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret trade documents and identify sanctions risk indicators.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Proficiency in MS office.
• Arabic speaking, reading and writing capabilities

What we offer

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, 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.

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.
• If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
• The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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