Financial Crime Transformation Consultant
Location: New York (Hybrid) | Practice Area: Finance, Risk, Regulatory & Financial Crime | Type: Permanent
Shape the future of financial crime, sanctions, and fraud transformation across global financial institutions
The Role
You will play a key role in delivering financial crime transformation initiatives across a range of clients. Working across AML/KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, and Fraud, you will help organisations respond to regulatory demands while improving operational efficiency and risk management capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact programmes within a collaborative and forward-thinking consulting environment.
What You’ll Do
- Support clients in meeting regulatory obligations, including remediation and regulatory response activities
- Contribute to the design and implementation of financial crime transformation initiatives across AML, KYC, sanctions, and fraud
- Assess client capabilities and identify opportunities to enhance risk management and operational efficiency
- Support the redesign of operating models, controls, and processes to strengthen financial crime frameworks
- Collaborate with stakeholders to implement technology solutions that improve detection and prevention capabilities
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in financial crime, sanctions, fraud, or compliance within financial services or consulting
- Understanding of regulatory requirements, KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring, and screening processes
- Knowledge of financial crime tooling and frameworks across the three lines of defence
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex information
- Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with a range of stakeholders
Bonus Points For
- Experience delivering transformation or change programmes within financial services
- Familiarity with emerging technologies (e.g. AI) in financial crime prevention
- Experience supporting regulatory reviews, audits, or remediation programmes
- Exposure to fraud detection, prevention, and response frameworks
- Relevant certifications (e.g. CAMS, ICA, ACAMS)
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions
- Work in a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial consulting culture
- Access continuous learning, training, and industry certifications
- Be part of a team shaping the future of digital financial services
- Help shape the future of digital transformation across FS & Energy.
We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life:
- Core Benefits: Discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance and critical illness cover.
- Mental Health: Easy access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders.
- Family-Friendly: Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, plus paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement.
- Family Care: 8 complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care.
- Holiday Flexibility: 5 weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days based on your needs.
- Continuous Learning: Your growth, your way - minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually. Take your pick; workshops, certifications, e-learning. Also, Business Coach assigned from Day One.
- Healthcare Access: Convenient online GP services.
- Extra Perks: Gympass (Wellhub), travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance.
Inclusion at Capco
We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know – we’ll be happy to help. We value each person’s unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration – a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage in the U.S. are characterized as strong, with good coverage and favorable costs. Mental health resources and broader wellbeing programs are also emphasized as part of a comprehensive package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO and paid holidays are described as generous, with multiple mentions of strong vacation allowances. While client work can affect usage, the underlying entitlement is presented as solid.
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Parental & Family Support — Company materials highlight enhanced family-friendly policies, including substantial maternity and paternity leave. Flexibility and return-to-work support reinforce a family-oriented approach.
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Capco, a Wipro company, is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in driving transformation in the energy and financial services industries. Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and the energy sector. Capco’s cutting edge ingenuity is brought to life through its award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent. TRUSTED ADVISORS - Our collaborative and entrepreneurial approach position us as trusted long-term partners to our clients. DEEP EXPERTISE - Clients look to us for clear guidance, proven expertise, and the support they need to set their companies up for success. DISRUPTIVE SOLUTIONS- We do not provide off -the-shelf answers to clients’ challenges. Instead, we work in close collaboration to understand the issues, and craft disruptive, bespoke solutions. ACCOUNTABILITY AND OWNERSHIP - We recognize every client has distinct needs and expectations, and we take ownership and accountability for the solutions we design, build, and deliver.
Why Work With Us
We support and encourage an inclusive culture, entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and rigid hierarchies – we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm to own and run. We believe diversity powers innovation. Be Yourself At Work (#BYAW) is an integral and underlying part of our culture
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