Financial Crimes & Compliance Analytics Consultant

Company Description

Sia is a next-generation, global management consulting group. Founded in 1999, we were born digital. Today our strategy and management capabilities are augmented by data science, enhanced by creativity and driven by responsibility. We’re optimists for change and we help clients initiate, navigate and benefit from transformation. We believe optimism is a force multiplier, helping clients to mitigate downside and maximize opportunity. With expertise across a broad range of sectors and services, our 3,000 consultants serve clients worldwide from 48 locations in 19 countries. Our expertise delivers results. Our optimism transforms outcomes. 

Strategy & Management Consulting 

Sia’s Strategy & Management Consulting global footprint and expertise in more than 40 sectors and services allow us to enhance our clients' businesses worldwide. We guide their projects and initiatives in strategy, business transformation, IT & digital strategy.   

A digital leader or growing disruptor, everyone must transform themselves to maintain their advantage. Our Technology Business Unit supports clients through digital, operations and organizational transformation adapted to their culture and working methods. We help clients strategize and scale leveraging deep expertise and solutions in compliance and risk management, strategic technology partnerships, data science, operations and business analysis and mergers and acquisitions. 

Job Description

Our rapidly growing Management consulting firm is seeking a highly skilled Consultant with deep expertise in Financial Crimes, Anti–Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), and Compliance Analytics. The ideal candidate will play a key role within our emerging Regulatory Technology (RegTech) practice, which partners closely with our Risk & Compliance Advisory team to design, test, and optimize cutting-edge regulatory and compliance solutions for clients across Technology and Fintech industries. 

This role will focus on supporting clients in mitigating financial crime risk by leveraging data-driven insights, regulatory frameworks, and advanced analytical tools. The consultant will work with large, complex datasets to identify trends and anomalies, enhance monitoring systems, and ensure that compliance programs are both effective and efficient. 

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with top-tier Technology clients —helping them detect, prevent, and respond to financial crime risks using data, technology, and regulatory expertise. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Partner with clients to assess and enhance their financial crime compliance frameworks, including AML, KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and fraud prevention. 
• Develop and execute advanced SQL queries to extract, transform, and analyze large datasets related to customer due diligence, suspicious activity monitoring, and regulatory reporting. 
• Support model calibration, validation, and tuning for financial crime detection and compliance monitoring systems 
• Leverage data analytics tools (e.g., Python, Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx) to identify risk patterns, gaps, and control deficiencies across compliance programs 
• Design and implement data governance and quality control processes to ensure the integrity and consistency of compliance data 
• Collaborate with technology, legal, and compliance stakeholders to develop and enhance end-to-end financial crime management systems 
• Create and maintain methodologies, documentation, and dashboards for ongoing monitoring, reporting, and model performance assessment 
• Stay abreast of emerging regulations, typologies, and industry trends in financial crimes, AML, and RegTech innovation 
• Provide actionable recommendations to improve operational efficiency, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance outcomes 

Qualifications

Required  

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or Master’s preferred in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, or related field 
• Proficiency in data analytics tools and programming languages (SQL, Python, R, SAS) 
• Experience with data visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Qlik) 
• Fintech, Technology, or Financial Services Consulting (required) 
• 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: 
  • AML / Financial Crimes Compliance 
  • KYC / Customer Due Diligence 
  • Transaction Monitoring / Sanctions Screening 
  • Regulatory Technology or Data Analytics in a compliance context 
• Deep understanding of financial crimes regulations (Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC sanctions, FinCEN requirements and/or equivalent international standards) 
• Knowledge of typologies and red flags associated with money laundering, terrorist f