Financial Services - Investigations & Compliance - Manager

Financial Services - Investigations & Compliance - Manager

Location: London

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 16 Jul 2026

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Financial Crime & Forensics is part of EY's Financial Services practice: we work closely with financial services clients and regulators to help prevent, investigate and remediate financial crime along with other regulatory risks and issues.

Our dedicated Investigations & Compliance team supports our clients in the aftermath of fraud or financial crime events, to proactively prepare for future events and with regulatory issues. Join us and you will work on challenging projects in a rapidly growing team, accelerating your career within an international and supportive environment. You'll also be introduced to career challenges that will take you into exciting new professional territory.

The role

As a Financial Crime & Forensics Manager, you will supervise junior colleagues, briefing them and reviewing their work, whilst executing your own work to a standard requiring minimal review across a portfolio of clients and internal projects. You will be expected to take personal responsibility for leading engagements and ensuring that deadlines are met to our clients' satisfaction.

Your role will also include proactively establishing, maintaining and strengthening internal and external relationships. Your knowledge and experience will help to create commercial insights for our clients.

Within the Financial Crime & Forensics team you will work on the execution of a variety of projects including investigations, financial crime framework reviews, risk assessments, claims and disputes, fraud and financial crime prevention, and compliance programme development within the financial services sector.

Required skills and experience

• Strong academic record including a degree (in any subject)
• Experience of managing juniors, including coaching of discrete tasks and reviewing outputs
• Knowledge and experience of fraud or areas of financial crime
• Experience of understanding, digesting, explaining and analysing company accounts and financial information
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Assertive and confident interpersonal skills
• Ability to simultaneously handle diverse and pressing assignments and sensitive and adversarial situations
• Ability to think critically with very good attention to detail
• Being comfortable working both independently and in a team

Ideally you will also have

• Professional accountancy or other financial qualification such as ICA, CFE or CAMS
• Experience of working in the financial services industry

What we look for

We're interested in leaders with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. If you are serious about forensics and enthusiastic about solving our clients' most complex issues, this role is for you.

What we offer

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning:You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership:We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.