Director, Financial Services - Economic Crime

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 is looking for an experienced Director to help shape and grow our Economic Crime capability.
Baringa is committed to reducing economic crime and the negative consequences it has on society. We help clients understand how economic crime can be carried out through their organisations and put in place targeted, proportionate controls that manage risk effectively while supporting sustainable growth and positive customer outcomes.
As a Director, you will combine deep Economic crime expertise with senior client leadership, commercial development and practice building. You will advise executive stakeholders, originate and grow client opportunities, lead complex transformation programmes and develop the people, propositions and market profile that support the continued growth of our business.
What you will be doing
Building trusted relationships with Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, MLROs, Heads of Economic crime and other senior client stakeholders
Originating, shaping and converting Economic crime opportunities and building a sustainable portfolio of clients and revenue
Leading complex, multi-workstream Economic crime programmes from strategy and design through to implementation
Advising clients on regulatory expectations, emerging threats, leading practice and the practical design of proportionate controls
Overseeing assessments of Economic crime frameworks and translating findings into prioritised remediation plans and roadmaps
Shaping technology-enabled transformation across KYC, transaction monitoring, screening, investigations and case management
Defining and growing market-relevant propositions, thought leadership and go-to-market activity
Raising the visibility of Baringa's Economic crime capability through senior client conversations, industry engagement and external market presence
Leading, coaching and developing high-performing teams while maintaining a strong focus on quality, inclusion and client outcomes
Working collaboratively across Baringa's sectors and capabilities to bring the best of the firm to clients and create broader opportunities
Contributing to the strategic direction, commercial performance and leadership of the wider Risk & Compliance practice
Your skills and experience
Significant Economic/Financial crime consulting experience within a recognised consultancy, specialist advisory firm
Deep expertise across one or more of AML, KYC/CDD, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud, screening, investigations or Economic crime operations
Strong knowledge of the Economic/Financial crime legal and regulatory landscape, regulatory expectations and relevant industry practice
A track record of leading large, complex Economic crime transformation, remediation or technology-enabled change programmes
Credibility with executive stakeholders, including CROs, CCOs, MLROs and senior operational and technology leaders
Demonstrable experience originating and converting consulting opportunities and developing long-term client accounts
Experience shaping propositions, campaigns, thought leadership or new capability areas in response to market demand
Strong commercial judgement, including the ability to manage delivery quality, client outcomes and engagement economics
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and coaching senior consultants and future leaders
An understanding of Economic crime technology platforms, data requirements and vendor solutions commonly used across regulated firms
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.
Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.