Financial Crime Compliance Director

Our client is seeking a Financial Director to join their team. As a Financial Director, you will be part of the FCC Advisory Solutions team supporting complex and critical financial crime compliance, risk, and governance advisory engagements. The ideal candidate will have deep financial crime compliance expertise, strong people leadership and coaching skills, and the ability to build trusted client relationships while delivering high-quality advisory work.

Job Title:Financial Director

Location:New York, NY

What's the Job?

• Lead large, complex advisory assignments across financial crime compliance (FCC), including AML, sanctions & embargoes, anti-fraud and investigations, anti-bribery & corruptions, and other criminal offenses impacting financial institutions or multinational corporations.
• Oversee planning, execution, and reporting for multiple client engagements, ensuring teams deliver on time and to the expected quality standards.
• Manage key client accounts and maintain effective relationships with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders to build trust and enable open dialogue.
• Provide pragmatic guidance on governance, risk management, and compliance by evaluating client internal control structures, assessing general risk, and advising on control mechanisms to mitigate identified risks.
• Contribute to business development and growth by targeting external clients, supporting proposals and client pitches, drafting client alerts and white papers, and participating in industry conferences and speaking engagements.

What's Needed?

• Eight plus years of experience specifically in financial crime compliance, risk, and governance-related work, including at least two years in a management and team supervisory/development role.
• Exposure to business development and/or direct client relationship management.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft applications, including advanced Excel skills.
• Familiarity with financial crime compliance controls such as sanction screening, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, KYC, and risk assessments; experience working for a financial institution or consulting firm focusing on AML and/or sanctions is preferred.
• Ability to travel outside the home country to meet client engagement needs, if required.

What's in it for me?

• Opportunity to lead advisory work that helps institutions manage complex and critical financial crime compliance, risk, and governance challenges.
• Platform to contribute to thought leadership through external presentations, publications, and industry engagement.
• Chance to mentor and coach junior colleagues while overseeing technical execution of advisory work within areas of responsibility.
• Involvement in product and service development by helping shape cutting-edge solutions that meet evolving client needs.
• Collaborative team environment where you can apply emerging regulatory and risk trend awareness to deliver practical, high-impact guidance.

Upon completion of waiting period consultants are eligible for:

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k), Plus Match
• Weekly Pay

If this is a role that interests you and you'd like to learn more, click apply now and a recruiter will be in touch with you to discuss this great opportunity. We look forward to speaking with you!

About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.

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