Managing Consultant/Associate Director – Fraud Advisory – Financial Crimes Risk and Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Offer fraud advisory services and industry-specific expertise to assist clients in evaluating, designing, and enhancing fraud risk management programs encompassing prevention, detection, investigation, and recovery.

• Drive client engagements to establish fraud strategies, operating models, governance frameworks, policies/procedures, and improvements in controls across prevention, detection, investigation, and recovery.

• Conduct working sessions with client stakeholders and external parties to assess current capabilities, determine future needs, and prioritize practical enhancements to minimize fraud losses and operational issues.

• Carry out fraud risk assessments and program effectiveness evaluations for commercial sector clients, addressing key typologies, channels, products, and customer journeys.

• Produce thought leadership in fraud advisory (whitepapers, points of view, case studies, playbooks) focused on emerging typologies, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

• Assist leadership in business development initiatives aimed at expanding the fraud advisory practice (e.g., proposals, client workshops, and solution positioning).

• Counsel client leaders on fraud risk requirements, risk appetite, governance structures, escalation protocols, and decision-making methods to enhance detection, investigations, and customer outcomes.

• Analyze fraud metrics, trends, and analytical results to pinpoint root causes, identify control deficiencies, and provide actionable recommendations, supporting executive-level reporting and governance routines.

• Ensure compliance with firm risk management protocols to maintain the quality of all client deliverables.

• Oversee daily project activities, including collaboration with team members, professionals from other firms involved in the engagement, and client personnel.

• Create client-ready deliverables (risk assessments, operating model documents, control matrices, playbooks, and executive summaries) that capture findings, recommendations, and implementation strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in supporting fraud and other financial crime programs (e.g., investigations, monitoring/alert triage, case management, disputes/claims, recovery) along with associated control environments.

• Understanding of fraud typologies and the capability to translate them into actionable policies, processes, controls, and operational model enhancements for customer and employee scenarios.

• Familiarity with standard fraud monitoring principles (rules, segmentation, alerts, model outputs) and the capacity to interpret outcomes and convert them into business, process, and control suggestions.

• Strong project management and time management abilities.

• Capable of managing multiple projects concurrently and independently, while also prioritizing as necessary.

• Excellent conceptual, quantitative, and qualitative analytical skills.

• Effective communication skills that facilitate decision-making.

• Willingness to travel as required by client needs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend