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Financial Crime Unit (FCU) Tech Senior Associates

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Job Description & Summary

A career in our Management and Risk Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

As a member of our team, you'll help the world's most significant organisations, public and private, quickly become more effective. We improve the way they operate, manage costs, better align people, process and technology initiatives support business growth to maintain or improve competitive edge and complete market and regulatory risk assessment. In doing so, we focus on their agendas and the big issues they need to deal with, both today and in the future.

About the Team

A career with our Financial Crime Unit (FCU) technology team will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working to solve their toughest regulatory problems by applying the latest technologies in new and innovative ways. We are driven by how technology can be applied to make a genuine impact on our client's businesses - making them cheaper, faster, better.

We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. We're here because we love what we do and think we can be the best at it.

Our culture is magnetic, our workplace is state-of-the-art,and we have the skills and personalities fueling us to be bold, experimental, creative, and truly disruptive.

Working with us you will

  • the opportunity to work on a variety of different technology platforms - ranging from well established players like Oracle through to emerging leaders like Featurespace, Netguardians, Quantexa etc.
  • the opportunity to get trained and formally certified in a number of these technology platforms, which provides for sought after specialist skills, experiences and certifications which drive candidates value in the market
  • the opportunity to work on the latest technologies including machine learning/AI, OCR, robotic process automation, sophisticated business process management / workflow tools, data models etc.
  • the opportunity to work on a variety of programming frameworks and languages (not just Java and Python)
  • the opportunity to get experience in Regtech, which is a large and growing market (expected to be 16bn USD annual spend by 2025
  • the opportunity to work on regional and international clients and occasionally to travel and work in regional / international locations

About you

  • Bachelor's degree in a computer science degree
  • Experience using Java, Python and other frameworks such as R
  • Track record of picking up new programming skills and experience across different platforms and technologies, as part of their degree e.g. through project work
  • Some experience with code versioning tools (Git)
  • Some experience with maintaining code quality and ensure responsiveness of said applications
  • Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features e.g. as part of project work
  • Understanding and implementation of security and data protection (optional)
  • API design and development (optional)
  • Experienced with server infrastructure, deployment and maintenance (Linux and Windows Server) (optional)

About the Team

A career with our Financial Crime Unit (FCU) technology team will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working to solve their toughest regulatory problems by applying the latest technologies in new and innovative ways. We are driven by how technology can be applied to make a genuine impact on our client's businesses - making them cheaper, faster, better.

We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage. We're here because we love what we do and think we can be the best at it.

Our culture is magnetic, our workplace is state-of-the-art,and we have the skills and personalities fueling us to be bold, experimental, creative, and truly disruptive.

Working with us you will

  • the opportunity to work on a variety of different technology platforms - ranging from well established players like Oracle through to emerging leaders like Featurespace, Netguardians, Quantexa etc.
  • the opportunity to get trained and formally certified in a number of these technology platforms, which provides for sought after specialist skills, experiences and certifications which drive candidates value in the market
  • the opportunity to work on the latest technologies including machine learning/AI, OCR, robotic process automation, sophisticated business process management / workflow tools, data models etc.
  • the opportunity to work on a variety of programming frameworks and languages (not just Java and Python)
  • the opportunity to get experience in Regtech, which is a large and growing market (expected to be 16bn USD annual spend by 2025
  • the opportunity to work on regional and international clients and occasionally to travel and work in regional / international locations

About you

  • Bachelor's degree in a computer science degree
  • Experience using Java, Python and other frameworks such as R
  • Track record of picking up new programming skills and experience across different platforms and technologies, as part of their degree e.g. through project work
  • Some experience with code versioning tools (Git)
  • Some experience with maintaining code quality and ensure responsiveness of said applications
  • Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features e.g. as part of project work
  • Understanding and implementation of security and data protection (optional)
  • API design and development (optional)
  • Experienced with server infrastructure, deployment and maintenance (Linux and Windows Server) (optional)

  • Manages the day-to-day project deliverables in accordance with PwC's Global Best AML methodology. PwC's Global Best covers requirements related to suspicious transaction, know-your-customer identification program, OFAC, FATCA, currency transaction reporting, watch-list monitoring and all other laws and regulations and requirements designed to detect and prevent financial crime, money laundering, fraud and terrorism.
  • Conducts testing and review to assess people, process and AML systems in adherence to policies and best practices
  • Investigates, evaluates, reports and monitors suspicious transactions
  • Identifies AML or other risk implications connected with existing as well as new products, systems, procedures, and emerging risk areas
  • Provides recommendations that assist companies comply with AML, FATCA and other regulatory and reportorial requirements designed to detect and prevent financial crime, money laundering, fraud and terrorism
  • Keeps up to date with significant regulatory developments
  • Works in a multi-cultural environment
  • Has opportunities to play multiple roles

Requirements

  • 2 or more years of work experience related to Know-Your Customers requirements or its equivalent
  • College degree, preferably from legal management or a degree related to banking or financial institution
  • No professional certificate required but attorneys are highly preferred
  • In-depth analytical and writing skills
  • Able to deliver quality work at the specified deadline as well as remain flexible to changing priorities
  • Must be able to think independently, communicate / present ideas collaboratively and maintain high level of confidence
  • Willing to travel and be trained with PwC's Global Best AML methodology as well as willing to start as soon as possible

Education

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred: Bachelor Degree

Certifications

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship

No

Government Clearance Required

Yes


About Company

PwC

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

Job ID: 147984211