James Dodsworth Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Assistant Director in the UK Forensic practice, working across multiple projects relating to fraud, compliance, sanctions, and investigations
• Experience working on complex, multi-service line and cross-country projects including compliance assessments and investigations
• Multiple long-term secondments into clients including; o 10 months in a Big 4 bank’s Senior Manager Regime (SMR) investigations team; o 9 months as interim Head of Investigations for a global retail/healthcare firm; o.
• Worked alongside Internal Audit Team to review a retail bank’s fraud department, identifying and advising on fraud strategies, policies, MI requirements and structure of department
• Presented at industry events on financial crime topics
• Development of go-to-market materials, proposals, delivering pitches to clients

London, England, United Kingdom

20 month internal secondment to EY Financial Crime Team looking at sanctions compliance following Russia/Ukraine conflictConducting regular second-line testing in EY’s UK Financial Crime Team for all financial crime risks including money laundering, bribery and corruption, sanctions, criminal finances, and fraud.Prepare and publish both MI and KPIs for the.

London, United Kingdom

• Manager in the UK Forensic practice, working across multiple projects relating to fraud, compliance, sanctions, and investigations
• Creating and delivering anti-financial crime and compliance training internally and with clients
• Experience developing go to market propositions, literature, delivering pitches and proposals
• Worked with a broad range of clients from international and challenger banks, to gambling and retail firms
• Managing and leading both small and large teams across projects. Upskilling and mentoring junior members

London, United Kingdom

• EMEA Fraud resource as part of Anti-Financial Crime Unit, including investigations, training, reporting, implementation of systems
• Responsible for creating and running a global fraud forum between offices
• Created Fraud Management Framework referencing fraud controls and risk assessment practices
• Data Protection and security responsibilities including investigating incidents, data subject access requests, reporting, and remediation
• Assisted with implementation of Bribery Act into existing policies, and assessing gifts and entertainment submissions alongside Finance
• Responsible for daily Politically Exposed Persons/Sanctions screening

• Responsible for maintaining and developing processes and systems within Abbey Financial Crime Operations
• Intranet Content publisher for Financial Crime. Included good change control and working to strict timescales to ensure Fraud Alerts and content was updated
• Responsible for ensuring new systems correspond to the department’s role by analysing system data and considering the risk of exposure to fraud
• Information Security Officer for Financial Crime Operations. Responsible for compliance with Information Security Governance, assessing risks, identifying information assets and business continuity.
• Major contributor to development, testing and implementation of an operations case management system

• Preparing documentation, attending and making statements to Law Courts
• Liaising with other law enforcement agencies and fraud prevention agencies
• Contributed, as part of a small dedicated successful team, to significant savings and prevention of fraud, particularly on cheque clearing
• System tester on new internal fraud systems. Skills utilised included improving processes, identifying and resolving problems
• Received recognition from outside organisations for help in preventing fraud
• Conducted job interviews and contributed to candidate selection