Economic Crime Consultant / Senior Consultant (Hiring Immediately)

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Risk & Compliance practice are looking for an experienced Economic Crime Consultant / Senior Consultant to join the team.

Baringa is committed to reducing financial crime and the negative consequences it has on society. Our business seeks to bring insight and perspective and have lasting impact for our clients, the environment, and on the communities where we live and work. We help our clients to better understand how Economic Crime can be carried out through their organisations and to put in place targeted controls, enabling them to manage this risk efficiently.

What you will be doing

• Assessing and benchmarking the effectiveness of firms’ Economic Crime regulation, legislation, and industry best practices

• Implementing and/or optimising Economic Crime technology solutions such as client lifecycle management and KYC capture, transaction monitoring, customer screening and payment screening

• Supporting data quality assessments, data transformation/data integration (ETL) and data visualisation.

• Demonstratable knowledge of vendor products commonly used to combat Economic Crime

• Conducting risk assessments to identify top Economic Crime risks and helping firms with mitigation plans and roadmaps

• Designing and supporting the implementation of Economic Crime target operating models

• Designing and implementing a range of key Economic Crime controls, translating regulatory requirements into business and functional requirements that describe the system, data, process, and control changes required to achieve compliance

• Assist in leading the planning and delivery of Economic Crime change programmes and projects

• Raising visibility of our Economic Crime capability, both internally and externally

Your skills and experience

• We are looking for passionate and curious individuals who have excellent relationship building and communication skills, and thrive in a team environment

• Experience working with SQL, Python, VBA, or other programming languages is desired

• Experience operating within the Economic Crime consulting space

• Demonstratable knowledge and understanding of the current Economic Crime legal and regulatory landscape and key regulatory initiatives

• The ability to constantly learn and grow whilst delivering results in a challenging client-facing environment

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting   People   First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.