Senior Consultant, Financial Crimes - Data Analytics

Senior Consultant, Financial Crimes - Data Analytics
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Overview
At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.  We don’t just respond to financial crime, we redefine how the industry is managing the risk.  Our newly launched National Financial Crimes Centre of Excellence (FC COE) is a bold step forward in the fight against money laundering, corruption, and emerging threats.  

This is your opportunity to be part of a purpose‑driven team that combines cutting‑edge analytics, global insights, and deep regulatory expertise to protect the financial system and build trust in society.

Whether you’re a seasoned compliance analytics professional, a data‑driven problem solver, or a strategic thinker passionate about compliance, the FC COE offers a dynamic platform to innovate, collaborate, and lead.  Join us in shaping the future of financial crime prevention, where your impact will be felt across industries, borders, and communities.

What You Will Do

Collaborate with a diverse range of regulated entities to tackle financial crime issues, including Anti‑Money Laundering (AML) and Global Sanctions, across all three lines of defense.  Support Financial Crimes leaders in the financial services sector with analytical and technology‑driven tasks.

Contribute to financial crimes compliance initiatives by spearheading the development and implementation of innovative solutions that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of financial crime prevention efforts, thereby establishing a high standard for compliance excellence.

Assist in the design, validation, review, optimisation, and audit across various financial crimes models (AML TM, Sanctions, and Customer Risk), including statistical, machine learning, and artificial intelligence models for traditional financial institutions, correspondent banks, insurance providers, brokerages, Fin Tech, online marketplaces and Money Service Businesses (MSBs) regulated by the OSFI, FINTRAC, OCC, Federal Reserve, and the New York DFS.

Support model tuning, segmentation, and threshold calibration activities to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives.

Conduct data analysis and remediation efforts, including data mapping, cleansing, and validation to support system implementation and regulatory reporting.

Participate in projects aimed at enhancing compliance programs by utilising data analytics and advanced technologies to mitigate risks and streamline processes.  Perform data analytics to test and validate financial crime systems and models using SQL, Python, R, and other programming languages, performing statistical analyses on samples, interpreting results, and effectively summarising findings.

Assist in the design and development of assets that employ advanced analytical tools, including intelligent automation and large language models, as part of anti‑financial crime initiatives.

Assist management in recognising, escalating, and managing engagement risks for both internal and external stakeholders.  Serve as a solution leader for the leadership team, overseeing specific components of engagements, supervising staff‑level teams, and providing guidance and training to other team members.

Provide insights into engagement decisions, including work plans, timelines, budgets, project management, and resource allocation.  Stay informed about current market trends and emerging regulatory requirements and guidance.

Implement and apply advanced analytical methodologies to improve detection, reduce false positives, and report financial crimes.  Support clients with technical risk and control reviews, ensuring that compliance projects are executed accurately and aligned with the latest regulatory requirements, expectations and industry best practices.

Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including compliance, technology, and data specialists, to deliver integrated solutions.

Prepare client deliverables, such as reports, presentations and dashboards, with a…