Senior Consultant, Financial Economic Crime

As a Senior Consultant, Financial Economic Crime, you will make an impact by supporting and leading defined analysis and delivery activities within financial economic crime consulting engagements, translating business needs into practical process, data and technology requirements while building trusted client relationships. You will be a valued member of the Banking & Financial Services (BFS) Consulting team and work collaboratively with our ecosystem of clients, alliances, start-ups and design agencies, and clients.

Cognizant Consulting is the advisory division of Cognizant and an international community of over 5,000 consultants. We combine deep sector knowledge with expertise in technology and transformation to help organizations realize sustainable changes. For our team in the Netherlands, we are looking for a new colleague to work together with clients on complex issues in the financial sector.

As a Senior Consultant Financial Economic Crime, you will work on advisory and transformation projects at financial institutions. You will take responsibility for defined analyses and concrete deliverables, translate business needs into workable requirements for processes, data, and technology, and build sustainable client relationships. You will be part of our Banking & Financial Services Consulting team.

• You will lead defined analysis and delivery activities, such as explorations, current state analyses, design of target processes, drafting requirements, test support, and preparation for implementation.

• You will align with stakeholders, facilitate workshops, and deliver clear, actionable advice and results. In doing so, you will advise clients on, among other things, CDD, KYC/KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, and investigations.

• You will assess and improve processes for risk assessment, onboarding, periodic reviews, screening, monitoring, alert triage, investigation, and remediation. You will translate objectives into requirements for, among other things, KYC, screening, monitoring, fraud, case management, graph analysis, and AI.

• You will define data and control requirements for customer, ownership, identity, transaction, screening, alert, case, and network data.

• You will apply relevant Dutch and European laws and regulations, including the Wwft, sanctions regulations, risk-based control measures, and privacy legislation. Additionally, you will contribute to proposals, client presentations, reusable methodologies, and publications.

We offer flexibility wherever possible. For this position, you will work hybrid: an average of two to three days per week at a client site or at our office in Amsterdam. On the remaining days, you can work remotely, depending on the project. Through our wellbeing programs, we support a healthy work-life balance.

These working arrangements apply at the time of publication and may change due to the nature of a project or the needs of the client and our organization. We will always discuss expectations with you clearly and in advance.

• Extensive relevant experience with financial economic crime, the banking sector, consulting within financial services, business analysis, or realizing transformations.

• Experience with end-to-end business analysis in an IT environment and the ability to look at capabilities, architecture impact, integrations, control measures, and non-functional requirements in a technology-agnostic manner.

• Knowledge of CDD, KYC/KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, tax integrity, and investigative processes. You understand how processes surrounding risk assessment, onboarding, periodic reviews, screening, alert triage, case investigation, escalation, reporting, remediation, and quality assurance are interconnected.

• Strong advisory, analysis, workshop, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to translate business processes into data requirements.

• Oral and written proficiency in English and a relevant bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent work experience.

• Can draft requirements for solutions in the areas of KYC, screening, transaction monitoring, fraud, case management, graph analysis, workflow, data, AI, and automation, and can analyze relevant data within the Dutch Wwft context;

• Are familiar with technology landscapes in the financial sector, including platforms, workflow, cloud, data, analytics, automation, and digital channels;

• Have knowledge of supervision and relevant European regulations;

• Know how to create buy-in in a consensus-oriented environment and enjoy collaborating in international teams. Travel may be part of the role;

• Work in a client-oriented, analytical, and result-oriented manner, with attention to responsible innovation, the client's interest, quality, and the further development of our advisory division.

Do you recognize yourself in a large part of this profile, but not in every single point? Then we cordially invite you to apply. We are curious about your experience, perspective, and the qualities you can add to our team.

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice, we're a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we're looking for our next colleague who'll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

• Own defined analysis and delivery activities, including plans, dependencies, risks, quality and the timely completion of outputs, conducting discovery, current-state assessment, target-process design, requirements definition, testing support and implementation-readiness activities.

• Coordinate stakeholders, facilitate workshops and produce clear, implementation-ready deliverables, advising clients across CDD, KYC/KYB, AML, monitoring, sanctions, fraud and investigations.

• Assess and improve processes covering risk assessment, onboarding, review, screening, monitoring, alert triage, investigation and remediation, and translate objectives into process, data, control and technology requirements across KYC, screening, monitoring, fraud, case management, graph analytics and AI.

• Define data requirements and controls covering customer, ownership, identity, transaction, screening, alert, case and network data.

• Apply Netherlands and EU context, including Dutch Wwft and sanctions context, risk-based controls and privacy, and contribute to proposals, client presentations, reusable assets and thought leadership.

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

• Strong relevant experience in financial economic crime, banking or financial-services consulting, IT business analysis or transformation delivery, with demonstrated ownership of complex analysis, deliverables and stakeholder coordination.

• End-to-end IT business analysis skills covering problem framing, elicitation, process modelling, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability, testing and business readiness, with a technology-agnostic ability to assess capabilities, architecture implications, integrations, controls and non-functional requirements.

• Knowledge of CDD, KYC/KYB, AML, transaction monitoring, sanctions, fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, tax integrity and investigation processes, together with an understanding of risk assessment, onboarding, periodic review, screening, monitoring, alert triage, case investigation, escalation, reporting, remediation and quality assurance.

• Strong consulting, structured problem-solving, workshop facilitation, storytelling and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to connect business processes with data ownership, quality, lineage, privacy, reporting and migration requirements.

• Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory, together with a bachelor or master degree in business, finance, economics, technology or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• Ability to define requirements for KYC, screening, transaction-monitoring, fraud, case-management, graph-analytics, workflow, data, AI and automation solutions, and experience analysing customer, beneficial-ownership, identity, transaction, payment, counterparty, screening, alert, case, network and external-intelligence data with awareness of the Dutch Wwft context.

• Understanding of BFS technology landscapes, including core platforms, workflow, cloud, data, analytics, automation and digital channels.

• Dutch language capability and experience with Dutch or Benelux financial-services organisations, including knowledge of the Dutch supervisory landscape and relevant EU regulation for the subdomain.

• Ability to build alignment in a Dutch consensus-oriented environment through fact-based recommendations and pragmatic delivery, with comfort working in hybrid international teams travelling to client locations in the Netherlands and Benelux.

• A client-focused, analytical and outcome-oriented approach that simplifies complexity, challenges constructively and is committed to responsible innovation, customer interests, high-quality delivery and developing the practice through coaching, accelerators, case studies and thought leadership.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.