The posting
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
Financial Institutions have drastically changed over the last decade, driven by increased regulatory constraints, diverse competition inside and beyond traditional banking organizations, and emerging technologies reshaping long-standing ecosystems. Sia’s Financial Services Business Unit provides a comprehensive suite of core capabilities designed to address the diverse and evolving needs of our clients, enabling them to navigate complex challenges, seize new opportunities, and achieve their strategic objectives in an increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment.
Job Description
We are hiring a Senior Manager to own the strategy and growth of Sia’s Financial Crimes offering. You will define how our AML, sanctions and broader financial crime capabilities evolve to meet where financial institutions are heading, sell those solutions to senior client stakeholders, and lead the teams that deliver them. This is a seller-doer role: market-facing expertise, business development, and team leadership.
Responsibilities:
Offering strategy and market positioning
- Set the strategy for Sia’s Financial Crimes offering, anchored in where financial institutions are going: technology-enabled and risk-based compliance, data and AI in monitoring and screening, managed services and operating model shifts, and evolving typologies and regulatory expectations.
- Identify gaps and growth opportunities in the current portfolio, and decide what to build, partner on, or retire.
- Translate regulatory and market developments into differentiated, productized solutions, accelerators and points of view.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with technology vendors, data providers and alliance partners that strengthen the offering.
- Establish Sia as a recognized voice in financial crime through thought leadership, speaking engagements and industry forums.
Business development and client leadership
- In coordination with Sia Leadership and Account Executives originate, shape and close new business with banks, broker-dealers, insurers, payments firms and other financial institutions, owning pursuits from first conversation through proposal, pricing and negotiation.
- Build and expand senior relationships with Chief Compliance Officers, Heads of Financial Crime, and COOs.
- Lead proposal and RFP responses and client orals, working with Sia’s cross-practice teams to bring the full breadth of the firm to bear.
Delivery
- Lead engagements in AML and sanctions program design and remediation, enterprise and business-line risk assessments, policy and control enhancement, transaction monitoring and screening strategy, KYC and CDD, and investigations and look-backs.
- Advise on the selection, design, tuning and implementation of monitoring and screening technology, including model validation and the responsible use of AI.
- Brief client senior management, boards and regulators on findings and recommendations.
- Ensure quality, commercial performance and client satisfaction across your engagements.
Team leadership and capability building
- Manage, coach and mentor consultants and managers, and build the talent pipeline for the practice.
- Develop training, methodologies and reusable assets that raise the capability of the whole team.
- Collaborate with legal, risk, technology, data and other Sia practices to integrate financial crime controls into broader transformation work.
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be added, deleted, or modified at any time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, law or a related field.
- 12 or more years of experience in financial crime, within industry (a bank or other financial institution) and management consulting.
- Proven consulting track record at Manager, Senior Manager or Director level, including originating and closing client work.
- Direct experience building or leading financial crime offerings, practices or solutions, including defining the roadmap and bringing new solutions to market.
- Deep knowledge of AML and sanctions regulation and supervisory expectations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, OFAC sanctions, and FATF recommendations, plus familiarity with international regimes.
- Strong command of AML and sanctions typologies, risk assessment methodologies, and monitoring and screening technologies.
- Track record of designing and implementing compliance programs for financial institutions or multinational corporations.
- Executive presence and the ability to engage credibly with C-suite and regulators.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated leadership in managing and developing teams of consultants.
Preferred
- CAMS, CFCS or equivalent certification.
- Experience with data analytics, AI and automation applied to financial crime.
- Established relationships in the financial institution and vendor ecosystem.
- Experience with fraud, sanctions technology, or emerging areas such as digital assets and real-time payments.
What Success Looks Like
- A clear vision for the Financial Crimes offering and its roadmap.
- New clients win and growth in existing accounts, with a healthy, visible pipeline.
- Differentiated solutions and assets that the wider Sia team can sell and deliver.
- Strong delivery outcomes and a developing team.
Additional Information
Compensation & Benefits
Sia invests in total rewards that support how our people work, live, and grow.
Compensation
- Base Salary: $175,000–$225,000. Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by applicable law.
- Annual Performance Bonus
- Personal Sales Bonus (uncapped)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision; company-paid life and AD&D; voluntary supplemental insurance and EAP
- 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting; HSA and FSA options
- College savings and student loan repayment programs
- Paid parental leave; generous PTO, nine company holidays, and one floating holiday
- Cell phone stipend; well-being and professional development programs
Benefits are subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.
Workplace
Sia values in-person collaboration. This position is based in our office in New York City. Consultants are expected to be on site at least three days per week, whether at a client site or at the Sia office or an approved coworking location. When an engagement requires fewer than three days at the client site, consultants are expected to work from the Sia office for the remaining days. Candidates should live within a reasonable commuting distance of the Sia office.
Work Authorization
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and throughout their employment. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Our Commitment
At Sia, we believe in fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where our employees and partners are valued and thrive in a sense of belonging.
Sia is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, remuneration, or discipline, are based solely on performance, competence, conduct, or business needs.
