Davies North America

Global insurance professional services and tech

Director Financial Crime Risk Management Advisory

Risk, Regulatory & Legal AdvisoryUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, law, or a related discipline is required.
A professional certification such as CIA, CPA, CFE, ACAMS, or equivalent is required.
Extensive financial services experience, typically 15 or more years, in financial crime risk management or regulatory advisory, including experience in the UK and EMEA.
Experience engaging with regulators and leading regulatory remediation or transformation initiatives.
Client-facing leadership, communication, and project delivery skills.
A background in Big Four or equivalent consulting.

Responsibilities

Act as Davies’ financial crime risk management lead for the United Kingdom and EMEA, leading delivery of high-quality, insight-driven financial crime advisory services.
Advise boards, executive committees, and C-suite stakeholders on financial crime prevention, emerging risks, regulatory expectations, and industry practices.
Lead the design, enhancement, and transformation of financial crime prevention frameworks covering anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, and customer due diligence.
Advise clients on financial crime governance, risk management, and control environments.
Lead large-scale financial crime remediation, regulatory response, and risk reduction programmes.
Drive innovation in financial crime prevention using advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and regulatory technology solutions.
Provide thought leadership on digital assets, crypto-related risks, sanctions evasion, and evolving fraud typologies.
Build and maintain senior relationships with regulators, industry bodies, and key market stakeholders.
Contribute to the firm’s financial crime strategy, propositions, and market positioning.
Serve as an executive advisor to clients across banking, payments, fintech, insurance, asset management, and other regulated sectors.
Lead complex financial crime engagements, ensuring high-quality outcomes, commercial success, and client satisfaction.
Direct multidisciplinary teams delivering financial crime risk assessments, operating model redesigns, technology implementations, regulatory remediation programmes, and managed service solutions.
Advise on financial crime regulations, supervisory expectations, and industry best practices.
Oversee programme governance, quality assurance, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and risk management across concurrent engagements.
Present recommendations, findings, and strategic roadmaps to board members, senior executives, and regulatory stakeholders.
Support clients through regulatory reviews, investigations, enforcement actions, and transformation initiatives.
Ensure engagements meet the firm’s quality, risk, and professional standards.
Drive growth and profitability of the Financial Crime Advisory specialist area through business development, account expansion, and market leadership.
Assist with development and execution of the practice go-to-market strategy, identifying opportunities across new and existing clients.
Build and maintain a pipeline of consulting opportunities, leading proposal development, client pursuits, and contract negotiations.
Identify emerging market trends and client needs to develop financial crime solutions and service offerings.
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of financial crime professionals, fostering excellence, collaboration, and inclusion.
Recruit and retain talent, supporting succession planning and capability development across the practice.
Promote the firm’s market profile through thought leadership, industry publications, conferences, regulatory forums, and client events.
Contribute to firm leadership initiatives, including strategic planning, operational management, and cross-service collaboration.
Own financial performance, including revenue growth, utilisation, profitability, and achievement of practice objectives.
Partner with colleagues across Consulting and Technology capabilities to deliver integrated client solutions.
Support multidisciplinary engagements involving risk transformation, regulatory technology, automation, and data-driven compliance programmes.

The Director, Financial Crime Risk Management Advisory is a senior leader within the Risk and Compliance capability and is responsible for delivering high‑impact financial crimes risk management advisory services to clients across Banking and Capital Markets, Asset and Wealth Management, and Insurance.
This role combines deep Financial Crime Risk Management [FCRM] expertise with practical consulting leadership to help clients strengthen FCRM programs, enhance governance, meet evolving regulatory expectations, and embed effective risk management practices.

In addition to leading complex engagements, the Director will oversee multidisciplinary teams, advise senior executives and boards, and contribute to scaling the FCRM specialist area of Davies’ growing Risk and Compliance capability.

Objectives

Act as Davies’ FCRM lead for the United Kingdom and EMEA by leading delivery of high-quality, insight-driven, FCRM advisory services.
Support the growth and scalability of the Risk and Compliance capability by developing market‑relevant propositions, contributing to business development, leading pursuits, and mentoring emerging talent.
Promote cross‑capability collaboration to deliver integrated, end‑to‑end solutions across the specialist areas of the Risk and Compliance capability (Assurance, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crimes Risk Management, and Risk and Non-Financial Risk), as well as the specialist areas of the other Consulting and Technology capabilities.
Deliver sustainable growth, profitability and practice excellence while maintaining the highest professional, ethical and regulatory standards.

1. FCRM Leadership:

Act as a recognised subject matter expert and strategic leader in financial crime prevention, advising Boards, Executive Committees and C-suite stakeholders on emerging risks, regulatory expectations and industry leading practices.
Lead the design, enhancement and transformation of financial crime prevention frameworks across Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, and customer due diligence.
Advise clients on the development of effective financial crime governance, risk management and control environments.
Lead large-scale financial crime remediation, regulatory response and risk reduction programmes.
Drive innovation in financial crime prevention through the application of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and regulatory technology solutions.
Provide thought leadership on emerging financial crime threats, including digital assets, crypto-related risks, sanctions evasion and evolving fraud typologies.
Build and maintain senior relationships with regulators, industry bodies and key market stakeholders.
Contribute to the firm's financial crime strategy, propositions and market positioning.

2. Client Delivery and Advisory

Serve as an executive advisor to clients across banking, payments, fintech, insurance, asset management and other regulated sectors.
Lead the delivery of complex financial crime engagements, ensuring high-quality outcomes, commercial success and client satisfaction.
Direct multidisciplinary teams delivering financial crime risk assessments, operating model redesigns, technology implementations, regulatory remediation programmes and managed service solutions.
Provide strategic and practical advice on financial crime regulations, supervisory expectations and industry best practices.
Oversee programme governance, quality assurance, budget management, stakeholder engagement and risk management across multiple concurrent engagements.
Present recommendations, findings and strategic roadmaps to Board members, senior executives and regulatory stakeholders.
Support clients through regulatory reviews, investigations, enforcement actions and transformation initiatives.
Ensure all engagements are delivered in accordance with the firm's quality, risk and professional standards.

3. Practice Leadership and Growth

Help drive the growth and profitability of the Financial Crime Advisory specialist area through business development, account expansion and market leadership.
Assist with the development and execution of the practice's go-to-market strategy, identifying opportunities across new and existing clients.
Build and maintain a strong pipeline of consulting opportunities, leading proposal development, client pursuits and contract negotiations.
Identify emerging market trends and client needs to develop innovative financial crime solutions and service offerings.
Help lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of financial crime professionals, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration and inclusion.
Recruit and retain top talent, supporting succession planning and capability development across the practice.
Assist with the promotion of the firm's market profile through thought leadership, industry publications, conferences, regulatory forums and client events.
Contribute to wider firm leadership initiatives, including strategic planning, operational management and cross-service collaboration.
Take ownership of financial performance, including revenue growth, utilisation, profitability and achievement of practice objectives.

4. Cross Practice Collaboration

Partner with colleagues across Davies’ Consulting and Technology capabilities — Operating Strategy and Transformation, People Development, Specialist Services, and Technology and Data) — to deliver integrated client solutions.
Support multidisciplinary engagements involving risk transformation, regulatory technology, automation, and data driven compliance programmes.

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, law or a related discipline.
Professional certification (CIA, CPA, CFE, ACAMS or equivalent).
Extensive financial services experience (typically 15+ years) in FCRM or regulatory advisory, and in the UK and EMEA.
Experience engaging with regulators and leading regulatory remediation or transformation initiatives.
Strong client-facing leadership, communication, and project delivery skills.
Background in Big Four or equivalent consulting.

About the Company

Davies North America

Global insurance professional services and tech

Davies North America is a global professional services and technology company that began in the UK as an insurance claims manager. It now provides technology, consulting, and legal solutions to clients in regulated industries, including insurance, through managed services, outsourcing, and advisory offerings. The company grows by acquiring other businesses to expand its geographic reach and service capabilities. Its goal is to become a global leader in professional services and technology for regulated industries, particularly in markets like the US, Canada, and Bermuda.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $363M
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1968

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