Financial Crime and Fraud Technology / Transformation – Senior Manager / Director
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KPMG Middle East seeks a Senior Manager/Director to lead AI- and data-driven transformation in Financial Crime and Fraud. The role involves delivering technology-enabled solutions for AML, sanctions, fraud, and financial crime domains, with responsibilities spanning advisory, solution design, and implementation.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain senior client relationships, including engagement with C suite stakeholders across Financial Services
- Lead and contribute to business development activities, including go to market initiatives, sales campaigns, and proposal development
- Lead end to end bid processes, from opportunity qualification through to deal closure
- Identify emerging client needs, market trends, and regulatory developments in financial crime and fraud
- Provide strategic advisory support to clients on financial crime transformation, including technology, data, and operating model enhancements
- Lead the delivery of complex, technology enabled transformation programmes, particularly those leveraging data, analytics, and AI
- Oversee engagement quality, ensuring outputs meet KPMG standards and client expectations
- Manage delivery risks, timelines, and budgets, ensuring successful and timely completion of projects
- Provide guidance on solution design, architecture, and implementation approaches across financial crime use cases
- Drive innovation and development of reusable assets and solutions
- Lead, coach, and develop high performing, multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, data science, and domain specialists
- Support recruitment, resourcing, and capability development initiatives within the practice
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of experience in Financial Services with focus on Financial Crime, Fraud, or Forensics
- Extensive experience in AML/KYC, Sanctions, Transaction monitoring, Fraud detection and prevention, Financial crime technology and transformation
- Proven experience leading large scale data and AI driven programmes within Financial Services
- Strong understanding of end to end data and analytics lifecycle
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver technology enabled solutions
- Experience in building, mentoring, and scaling data and analytics teams
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Role Overview
- KPMG Middle East is seeking to strengthen its Financial Crime and Fraud practice through the appointment of a Senior Manager / Director to lead our AI and data driven transformation capability.
- This role sits within our Fraud and Financial Crime solution and will focus on delivering technology enabled transformation across Financial Services clients, with particular emphasis on AML, sanctions, fraud, and broader financial crime domains.
- The successful candidate will combine deep Financial Services domain expertise, strong analytical and problem solving capabilities, and practical experience in data, analytics, and AI technologies to support clients in addressing complex regulatory and operational challenges.
- The role will span advisory, solution design, and implementation, driving innovative, scalable, and value driven outcomes.
- In addition to client delivery, the role will play a critical part in building KPMG’s market proposition, developing client relationships, and growing the practice in line with KPMG’s values and strategic priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain senior client relationships, including engagement with C suite stakeholders across Financial Services.
- Lead and contribute to business development activities, including go to market initiatives, sales campaigns, and proposal development.
- Lead end to end bid processes, from opportunity qualification through to deal closure.
- Identify emerging client needs, market trends, and regulatory developments in financial crime and fraud.
- Provide strategic advisory support to clients on financial crime transformation, including technology, data, and operating model enhancements.
- Lead the delivery of complex, technology enabled transformation programmes, particularly those leveraging data, analytics, and AI.
- Oversee engagement quality, ensuring outputs meet KPMG standards and client expectations.
- Manage delivery risks, timelines, and budgets, ensuring successful and timely completion of projects.
- Provide guidance on solution design, architecture, and implementation approaches across financial crime use cases.
- Drive innovation and development of reusable assets and solutions.
- Lead, coach, and develop high performing, multidisciplinary teams across data engineering, data science, and domain specialists.
- Support recruitment, resourcing, and capability development initiatives within the practice.
Required Experience
- Extensive experience within Financial Services, with a focus on Financial Crime, Fraud, or Forensics.
- 10–15+ years of experience across AML/KYC, Sanctions, Transaction monitoring, Fraud detection and prevention, Financial crime technology and transformation.
- Proven experience leading large scale data and AI driven programmes within Financial Services.
- Strong understanding of end to end data and analytics lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver technology enabled solutions, including development of reusable assets and accelerators.
- Experience in building, mentoring, and scaling data and analytics teams.
Preferred Experience
- Prior experience within Big 4 or leading consulting firms.
- Exposure to RegTech / FCC technology platforms.
- Experience engaging with regulators or regulatory driven transformation programmes.
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