Manager, Forensic and Financial Crime Compliance

About the role

PwC is looking for a Manager to join its Forensic and Financial Crime Compliance team in Kazakhstan, working with clients across Eurasia. The team helps financial institutions, corporates and public sector organisations investigate suspected misconduct, prevent financial crime and strengthen compliance, covering corporate investigations, fraud risk management, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, AML/CFT, sanctions and integrity due diligence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead engagements from scoping and planning through to reporting, owning delivery, quality and deadlines
• Manage investigations into suspected fraud, corruption, misappropriation and conflicts of interest, including planning procedures, analysing documents and transactions, interviewing and building evidence-based findings
• Assess and improve financial crime compliance programmes such as AML/CFT, KYC/CDD, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring
• Test the design and operating effectiveness of controls and help clients strengthen anti-fraud and anti-bribery programmes
• Prepare and review reports, present findings to senior stakeholders and work with data analytics and forensic technology specialists
• Manage client relationships, engagement budgets, staffing and billing, and supervise and coach team members
• Contribute to training, support business development and maintain confidentiality

Required profile

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in forensic investigations, financial crime compliance, fraud risk management or related advisory work
• Demonstrated experience leading projects, supervising colleagues and owning deliverables
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, law, business or a related discipline
• Willingness to travel for assignments across the region

Required skills

• Excellent report writing, presentation and communication in English and Russian
• Strong analytical skills, confident use of Excel and ability to work with financial and transactional data
• Professional qualifications such as CFE, CAMS, ICA, ACCA, CPA or CIA are valued
• Experience with forensic data analytics, eDiscovery, financial crime technology or compliance remediation is valued