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Financial Crimes/AML Principal

Are you passionate about transforming how financial institutions tackle AML and KYC/CDD challenges? Do you thrive at the intersection of compliance, technology, and data-driven insights? Are you eager to explore how AI and analytics can revolutionize financial crime prevention and detection? At Infosys Consulting, we're looking for professionals who bring expertise in AML, KYC/CDDalong with a keen interest in leveraging data, automation, and AI to modernize risk and compliance. If this excites you, let's talk!

About the Role

As a Principal, you will lead and manage delivery of engagements, being responsible for quality, budget and staffing, working closely with senior client managers. You will contribute to the firm's development by guiding and mentoring teams and sharing knowledge. You will be recognized as an expert in your respective domain and contribute to advancing Infosys Consulting's thought leadership in the industry.

Role expects you to:

• Play a lead role in delivery of large change programs, which includes IT and Business Change
• Lead and manage a team of consultants to develop concise and practical strategies, roadmap and/or re-engineering program recommendations with a clear implementation path
• Seek out client input in a structured manner to better understand needs and develop ideas for how to meet those needs
• Collaborate with clients to define long-term vision, goals and strategies related to Anti-Financial Crime
• Advise clients on strategy and detailed Anti-Financial Crime use cases by leveraging insights from industry best practices
• Direct teams of global consulting, IT professionals & subject matter experts in establishing comprehensive business and functional requirements, then translating those requirements into actionable project initiatives with associated metrics
• Play a key liaison and coordinator between the business, IT, senior management, vendor teams and other members of the change programs
• Conduct interviews / workshops / walkthroughs with subject matter experts and process owners to elicit and document requirements for Anti-Financial Crime needs of clients (e.g., Transaction Surveillance, Know Your Customer (KYC)/Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Case Management & Workflow, Sanctions & Watchlist Screening, 314A/B, etc.)
• Understand key AML regulatory directives issued by U.S. financial oversight bodies such as Fed, FINRA, SEC, OCC, FRB, FinCen, etc. with an ability to identify and interpret key areas / processes impacted by a specific regulation within the financial services organization
• Collaborate with client functions (Business, first line of defense, Compliance Risk Management and Regulatory Affairs) to assess impact of a specific regulation on existing policies, risks and controls
• Gather and analyze key Anti-Financial Crime requirements, processes, design and develop data maps to meet the reporting needs of the specific regulation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across the client organization and Infosys on regulatory change programs and initiatives
• Manage end-to-end project execution, stakeholder communication and minimize engagement risk by proactively identifying issues and recommending courses of remediation

Practice Development

• Provide insights on new and emerging technologies, best practices and contribute to the development of service offerings
• Work with other practice members to support Infosys Consulting thought leadership activities and develop innovative assets, including differentiated points of view and methodologies
• Build social networks that enable knowledge and information flow and stay abreast of developments in Anti-Financial Crime expertise areas
• Prepare thought papers and participate in industry conferences and forums
• Contribute to practice growth and vitality through roles such as recruitment, training and retention

People Management

• Coach and develop junior team members to deliver quality results and promote professional development
• Participate in and contribute to practice training activities

Business Development

• Lead small, medium sized sales pursuits and business development activities ranging from creation of client proposals to formulating commercial constructs / contracts
• Develop and build relationships at senior management and CXO levels
• Formulate and present Infosys Consulting propositions and service offerings

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Financial Services with at least 5 years of experience in Financial Crimes / AML / KYC / CDD / Transaction Screening / Surveillance / Monitoring
• Expertise in Anti-Money Laundering, Transactions - Monitoring, Screening, Surveillance, Know your Customer (KYC), FIU Investigations and Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR)
• Experience with implementation of one or more of the conventional Anti-Financial Crime tools e.g. Actimize, Fenergo, C3 AI, Oracle FCCM, Fircosoft, Lexis Nexis, etc.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent; or three years of relevant work experience in lieu of every year of education
• Demonstrated ability in defining, mobilising and delivering complex change programs in large organisations
• Strong background of leading teams, comprising both IT and business specialists
• A demonstrable ability to turn business requirements into technology solutions with the commercial acumen to create supporting business cases
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills with ability to build relationships at senior management and CXO levels
• Successful business development history including exposure to each of the various aspects of a typical sales cycle
• All candidates must be willing and able to travel up to 100%, depending on client requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree
• Experience in deploying Machine Learning and advanced technologies including analytics to reduce false positives or automate disposition of alerts will be a plus
• Experience of leading programs where stakeholder engagement is a key requisite to achieving successful program/project delivery
• Proven ability to deliver under tight deadlines and challenging constraints
• Ability to collaborate within the firm and leverage existing resources
• Demonstrate thought leadership, ability to conceptualize and drive new solution / service offerings and take them to market
• Ability and willingness to work as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple time zones when necessary

The Target Annual Compensation Range for this Role is $154,375 to 193,125 Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.

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