514 Financial Advisory jobs in the United Kingdom

• Provide comprehensive financial advice and planning services to clients.
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis, including investment appraisals and risk assessments.
• Develop and implement effective tax planning strategies.
• Assist clients with business valuation, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Prepare and interpret complex financial statements and reports.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant financial regulations and legislation.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their evolving needs.
• Collaborate with other professionals, such as solicitors and investment managers, to provide holistic advice.
• Stay up-to-date with market trends, economic developments, and changes in financial regulations.
• Contribute to the development of new service offerings and business strategies.
• Mentor and support junior members of the advisory team.

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (ACA, ACCA, ICAS, or equivalent).
• Significant post-qualification experience in accounting and financial advisory.
• Strong understanding of UK financial regulations and tax laws.
• Proven experience in financial planning, investment analysis, and business advisory.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in financial modeling and accounting software.
• Ability to manage multiple client portfolios and deadlines effectively.
• Strong business acumen and commercial awareness.
• Commitment to professional development and ethical practice.

Please note this role is based across the following locations. You must be located in the following locations to apply: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester

About The Opportunity:

Teneo's global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, strategic communications, risk advisory and people advisory, Teneo's global Financial Advisory team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress.

We help address the challenges a business faces, whether that is targeted performance improvement to financial performance, or delivering a route to recover value, our focus is delivering certainty from uncertainty.

What You'll Be Doing:

Our programme offers a 3-year experience where you'll work towards your chartered accountancy qualification while gaining invaluable experience across our Financial Advisory business. From day one, after your induction, you'll dive into real-world projects, developing both technical expertise and broader business advisory skills.

Here's what you can expect

• Support senior colleagues with advising clients on commercial restructuring issues on several high-profile projects.
• Support a portfolio of insolvency appointments.
• Conduct market research, analyse data, and create insightful, clear reports and presentations.
• Produce high-quality deliverables within set timelines.
• Participate in client meetings and presentations, learning directly from experienced professionals.
• Build sector-specific knowledge and understanding.
• Maintain relevant qualifications and pursue further learning, including professional certifications.

What sets our programme apart is the opportunity to rotate through our specialist teams, where you'll explore key areas such as corporate turnaround, M&A solutions, business valuations, and global capital markets, gaining a well-rounded foundation in financial advisory.

What We're Looking For:

• Achieved or on track for a 2.1 in any degree discipline from any UK university
• Graduating before September 2026
• Achieved a minimum of 136 UCAS points (or equivalent), including either Maths, a Science, Economics or Business Studies.
• Minimum GCSE English grade of 6
• Ability to align with Teneo's core values. Read about them here.
• Ability to work at one of the following locations: Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Application Process:

Stage 1: Online application and CV submission

Stage 2: Blended assessment - includes a video interview

Stage 3: Assessment centre

Our Commitment To Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

We believe that different perspectives and new ideas are essential for us to meaningfully partner with our clients globally. We are committed to investing in our people and fostering an environment of dignity and respect to create a sense of purpose and belonging for all.

In support of these objectives, we engage in targeted action to support our people, especially those from under-represented groups, in overcoming barriers and ensuring that each person is afforded the same opportunities to grow, develop and bring their whole self to work. We are taking active steps to build a culture of thinking, acting and leading inclusively that is embedded throughout our business. See here how Teneo is making a difference.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related quantitative field from a top-tier university.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant experience in investment banking, corporate finance, private equity, or transaction services.
• Proficiency in financial modeling, valuation techniques, and accounting principles.
• Expertise in Microsoft Excel (advanced modeling) and PowerPoint (presentation development).
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, work effectively under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated interest and understanding of capital markets and corporate finance.
• Previous experience in M&A advisory or capital markets is highly preferred.

Financial Crime Advisory – Global Payments London (4 days in the office) Up to £90,000 + excellent benefits + discretionary bonus

This Financial Crime Advisory role is with a global payments firm operating in a fast-paced environment, supporting a broad mix of corporate and institutional clients. This is a financial crime opportunity for a confident Financial Crime professional with excellent stakeholder management skills who can hit the ground running.

The role will involve working closely with the first line of defence to identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risk but you will sit in the second line. This includes acting as the main point of contact for financial crime queries, supporting new business initiatives and client migrations, reviewing client activity to ensure onboarding and monitoring are consistent, and helping design and implement new systems and controls. You will also provide financial crime advice, training and best practice guidance across the business.

We are looking for someone with a solid track record in financial crime within the payments sector, able to operate in an advisory capacity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime
• At least 2 years in a 2nd line financial crime advisory capacity
• Strong knowledge and proven ability to conduct risk assessments
• 4+ years’ experience across at least two regulated payments firms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence in a fast-paced environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a financial crime professional who enjoys both the technical and advisory aspects of the role and wants to make an impact in a global payments environment.

Financial Crime Advisory – Global Payments London (4 days in the office) Up to £90,000 + excellent benefits + discretionary bonus

This Financial Crime Advisory role is with a global payments firm operating in a fast-paced environment, supporting a broad mix of corporate and institutional clients. This is a financial crime opportunity for a confident Financial Crime professional with excellent stakeholder management skills who can hit the ground running.

The role will involve working closely with the first line of defence to identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risk but you will sit in the second line. This includes acting as the main point of contact for financial crime queries, supporting new business initiatives and client migrations, reviewing client activity to ensure onboarding and monitoring are consistent, and helping design and implement new systems and controls. You will also provide financial crime advice, training and best practice guidance across the business.

We are looking for someone with a solid track record in financial crime within the payments sector, able to operate in an advisory capacity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime
• At least 2 years in a 2nd line financial crime advisory capacity
• Strong knowledge and proven ability to conduct risk assessments
• 4+ years’ experience across at least two regulated payments firms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence in a fast-paced environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a financial crime professional who enjoys both the technical and advisory aspects of the role and wants to make an impact in a global payments environment.

Financial Crime Advisory – Global Payments London (4 days in the office) Up to £90,000 + excellent benefits + discretionary bonus

This Financial Crime Advisory role is with a global payments firm operating in a fast-paced environment, supporting a broad mix of corporate and institutional clients. This is a financial crime opportunity for a confident Financial Crime professional with excellent stakeholder management skills who can hit the ground running.

The role will involve working closely with the first line of defence to identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risk but you will sit in the second line. This includes acting as the main point of contact for financial crime queries, supporting new business initiatives and client migrations, reviewing client activity to ensure onboarding and monitoring are consistent, and helping design and implement new systems and controls. You will also provide financial crime advice, training and best practice guidance across the business.

We are looking for someone with a solid track record in financial crime within the payments sector, able to operate in an advisory capacity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime
• At least 2 years in a 2nd line financial crime advisory capacity
• Strong knowledge and proven ability to conduct risk assessments
• 4+ years’ experience across at least two regulated payments firms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence in a fast-paced environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a financial crime professional who enjoys both the technical and advisory aspects of the role and wants to make an impact in a global payments environment.

Financial Crime Advisory – Global Payments London (4 days in the office) Up to £90,000 + excellent benefits + discretionary bonus

This Financial Crime Advisory role is with a global payments firm operating in a fast-paced environment, supporting a broad mix of corporate and institutional clients. This is a financial crime opportunity for a confident Financial Crime professional with excellent stakeholder management skills who can hit the ground running.

The role will involve working closely with the first line of defence to identify, manage and mitigate financial crime risk but you will sit in the second line. This includes acting as the main point of contact for financial crime queries, supporting new business initiatives and client migrations, reviewing client activity to ensure onboarding and monitoring are consistent, and helping design and implement new systems and controls. You will also provide financial crime advice, training and best practice guidance across the business.

We are looking for someone with a solid track record in financial crime within the payments sector, able to operate in an advisory capacity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based guidance.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Financial Crime
• At least 2 years in a 2nd line financial crime advisory capacity
• Strong knowledge and proven ability to conduct risk assessments
• 4+ years’ experience across at least two regulated payments firms
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and confidence in a fast-paced environment

This is an excellent opportunity for a financial crime professional who enjoys both the technical and advisory aspects of the role and wants to make an impact in a global payments environment.

Role profile

Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

We are looking for an Associate Director to join our highly regarded Financial Institutions Group (FIG) based in our London or Bristol office, focussing on the area of Consumer Finance.

This area of work at Osborne Clarke has seen huge growth over the past few years. Osborne Clarke's FIG team is at the forefront of exciting and fast-paced matters and our collegiate and supportive culture makes it a rewarding place to work.

The practice
Osborne Clarke's consumer finance practice brings together market leading financial services and digital business expertise, in-depth financial services regulatory knowledge and finance specialists with in-house consumer credit and payments experience. This makes us a natural choice to assist a client base of institutional financial services clients, major technology companies and innovators in digital payments and consumer credit with their projects and new product launches, as well as on regulatory issues.

Our Rankings

• Band 1 – Chambers 2024 Fintech Legal: Payments and Lending
• Band 2 – Chambers 2024 UK Wide Consumer Finance
• Tier 2 – Legal Fintech

Nikki Worden is also ranked in Chambers as Band 1 for Consumer Finance UK Wide and Band 2 for FinTech Legal: Payments and Lending.

Find more about our Consumer Finance practice using this link:

The team
The FIG group are based across our London and Bristol offices and comprise of 10 Partners, 2 Legal Directors, 7 Associate Directors, 6 Senior Associates, 11 Associates, 4 Trainee Solicitors, 3 Solicitor Apprentices, 1 Senior Paralegal and 4 Paralegals.

This role will mainly be working with Nikki Worden (Partner and International Sector Leader for Financial Services) and Charlotte Harris (Legal Director) who are both based in our London office, however our London lawyers work closely with colleagues in the Bristol office so this person could be based in either location.

The work
We act for innovators in the consumer finance, consumer banking, FinTech and payments arenas, handling matters at the forefront of their respective industries, as well as well-established big institutions. Clients in need of consumer finance advice are not just those in the financial sector or those dealing with consumers (the provision of finance to some small businesses is regulated too). In addition to our financial services workload, we work internationally across the retail, transport, digital and utilities sectors, helping clients bring point of sale finance to their customers. We also act for clients outside the financial services sector who are interested in launching lending products or subscription models (regulated hire).

Osborne Clarke has market leading digital, technology and data privacy expertise. Given the increasing convergence of consumer finance, payments and technology, you will be collaborating extensively with lawyers across the firm in a fast-moving environment.

Technical Skills And Experience
Due to the technical nature of the practice, we are looking for candidates with a detailed understanding of consumer finance matters and a track record of providing clear legal and strategic advice. As a guide, due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking to appoint an Associate Director in this area, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Applicants Should Be Experienced In Advising On

• the CCA regime and CONC
• MCOB
• BCOBS
• FSMA and the RAO

insofar as they apply to credit-related regulated activities, offering regulated mortgages, current accounts, overdrafts and deposits. Some payments experience would also be desirable but is not essential.

Your career development
Like All Our Lawyers, You Will Benefit From Our Multi-award Winning Career Development Programme. At Each Stage Of Your Career This Provides You With

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary And Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply
At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins (Recruitment Manager) on

About Us
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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Team Description

The Financial Crime team (Regulation) forms part of the Firm's second line of defence and oversees all aspects of financial crime management, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC), Sanctions and Fraud for the bank

The team's primary responsibilities include:

• Establishing a robust framework to prevent, detect, investigate, and report financial crime risks.
• Ensuring comprehensive financial crime policies and procedures are maintained and embedded within the business, in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the business in implementing effective systems and controls to manage financial crime risks.
• Ensuring all relevant staff receive appropriate financial crime training.
• Providing financial crime-related management information to Senior Management, highlighting relevant risks as needed.
• Positioning the team as a trusted control function dedicated to protecting the Firm from financial crime risks.

Description of role and key responsibilities

To be part of a team that ensures the Financial Crime responsibilities comply with all relevant regulations. In particular to assist in:

Policy

• Develop, maintain and implement effective fraud risk management policies and standards covering internal and external fraud, APP fraud, cyber-enabled fraud, mule accounts, and identity theft.
• Ensure fraud-related regulatory and legislative developments (e.g., FCA expectations on fraud prevention, APP fraud guidance, UK Finance best practice) are identified and policies updated promptly.
• Benchmark fraud policies and frameworks against industry peers to ensure best practice alignment.

Risk Assessments

• Maintaining effective risk assessments of AML, CTF, ABC, Sanctions, Tax Evasion, and Fraud in conjunction with the business and Operational Risk to enable a risk-based approach to the management of Financial Crime risk within the firm
• Where appropriate attend relevant fora/committees to enable timely identification of potential risks to the Financial Crime system of controls.
• Maintain the Fraud Risk Assessment framework, ensuring all key fraud typologies and scenarios are considered across business lines, client lifecycle stages, and digital channels.
• Coordinate Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs) for fraud, ensuring risks are accurately identified, controls documented, and effectiveness tested.
• Partner with business units to embed ownership of fraud risks and controls within the first line of defence.
• Ensure assessment outputs are used to inform risk appetite, policy development, monitoring, and resource prioritisation.
• Present findings and control gaps to senior committees, recommending enhancements and tracking remediation actions.

Training

• Develop and deliver effective training programmes and content for Fraud, including the roll out of ace to face training to ensure staff have an adequate awareness of Financial Crime risks.
• Provide practical case studies and guidance to ensure staff can recognise and respond to fraud threats.
• Providing advice when required on Fraud related regulation and the firms related policies.

Projects

• Where appropriate, participate in or lead financial crime work streams/projects, including but not limited to AML, ABC, Sanctions and Fraud.
• Maintain a financial crime development roadmap to ensure processes and technology evolve in line with regulatory expectations, emerging risks and financial crime trends, including fraud detection, prevention, and response strategies.

General

• Build strong working relationships with other fraud and financial crime resources across the bank
• Encouraging a culture of openness, accountability, and fraud awareness across the business.
• Participation as part of the wider Financial Crime team to ensure that the whole team's objectives are achieved.