Senior Business Consultant

Job Title

Senior Business Consultant

Location

London

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Business Consultant specializing in Sanctions, PEP (Politically Exposed Person), and adverse media screening. As a key member of our advisory team, you will support financial institutions in leveraging SymphonyAI solutions to optimize customer and transaction screening processes against regulatory and internal watchlists. You will play a critical role in designing and implementing cutting-edge screening systems, driving AI-powered enhancements, and ensuring that detection processes meet both regulatory compliance and business efficiency goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Client Advisory: Work directly with clients to understand their sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening requirements and translate them into effective, technology-driven solutions.
• Screening Expertise: Advise on best practices for customer screening and transaction screening against global watchlists (e.g., WorldCheck/Refinitiv, Dow Jones), including onboarding, periodic reviews, and ongoing monitoring.
• AI Integration: Champion the use of predictive AI and generative AI technologies to improve screening accuracy, reduce false positives, and enhance operational productivity.
• Solution Design: Configure and optimize SymphonyAI sanctions screening solutions to align with client regulatory obligations and operational objectives.
• Detection Tuning: Assist and lead tuning detection parameters and thresholds to balance regulatory compliance, business efficiency, and effectiveness, including validation and calibration based on client needs.
• Product Enablement: Support clients in maximising product features, and guide on leveraging AI-driven screening. Feedback into product teams for enhancements based on client feedback.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise cross-functionally with client teams (compliance, IT, operations) and internally with product, engineering, and data science teams.
• Regulatory Alignment: Keep abreast of evolving sanctions regulations and screening best practices to advise clients proactively.
• Training & Enablement: Deliver training, documentation, and ongoing support for client teams using screening products and associated tools.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Proven experience as a business analyst or consultant within financial crime, compliance, risk, or related regulatory domains.
• Strong capability in gathering, analysing, and translating business requirements into functional and technical specifications for compliance solutions.
• Experience leading workshops, facilitating cross functional discussions, and managing stakeholder expectations across compliance, IT, operations, and product teams.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end financial crime processes (onboarding, KYC, screening, monitoring, case management).
• Hands on experience contributing to design, delivery, or optimisation of technology solutions in the FinCrime or compliance space.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to assess current state and define future state workflows.
• Excellent communication skills to present recommendations, document requirements, and support implementations.
• Self-motivated, organised, and comfortable in consulting/client facing environments.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Keen interest in sanctions compliance and the broader screening domain, with willingness to develop deeper expertise.
• Working knowledge of sanctions, PEP, and adverse media screening concepts to support solution discussions.
• Working knowledge of screening tools, watchlists (WorldCheck, Dow Jones), or tuning methodologies.
• Exposure to AI enabled compliance solutions or data driven optimisation initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

About Us

SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial crime prevention, manufacturing, media, and IT service management. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI today serves 1500+ Enterprise customers globally and has grown to 3,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals across over 30 countries.

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