Fraud Consultant

Job Role: Fraud Consultant

Location: London / Manchester

Career Level: Consultant (CL9)

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As a team:

The world around us is changing as everything moves digital, money moves real time and through new technologies and regulation continually evolves. Organisations must continue to innovate to manage their risk. This is where Accenture Risk Consulting comes in, as the world evolves, we are at the forefront of this using cutting edge technologies and advanced analytics advising clients on all aspects of risk everything from fraud & financial crime risk through to Climate Risk.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. 

In our team you will learn:

• The latest industry innovations in fraud prevention from Behavioural Biometrics through to GenAI
• Skills in the latest technologies that support successful fraud prevention such as cloud & advanced analytics
• How changes in the way that we live and spend our money on impact on fraud trends
• How to deliver innovative solution to tight timelines working as part of a team in a project delivery capacity
• How to build and develop your own brand and career working in the Accenture risk team
• How to mange some of the most complex and large-scale transformational projects specifically in fraud

In this role you will:

• Advise clients on improving fraud prevention, detection, and response utilising skills and experience across policy, process, technology, and data & analytics
• Work with the latest technologies to solve problems related to fraud
• Understand and solve complex business problems and present back solutions to stakeholders
• Be agile and agnostic to solutions as you work with different client circumstances and as fraud & financial crime evolves at an ever-increasing pace
• Have the opportunity to work for global clients with opportunities to travel if you wish
• Write point of views on industry trends
• Support in development of sales proposals and offerings
• Contribute fraud SME knowledge to a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
• Contribute to the Risk practice community and build a network across Accenture & clients

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Experience working within a fraud or financial crime department either in an advisory, analytics, operational or leadership capacity ideally within a bank or public sector organisation
• Understanding of the latest fraud regulations specifically the PSR APP Reimbursement regulations
• Experience working with fraud technologies such as Feedzai, Featurespace, Falcon, Actimize, SAS, Quantexa etc
• Experience either delivering, presenting, or using fraud analytics outputs to help inform policy or action against fraud
• Understanding of how data & analytics can be used to prevent & detect fraud
• Project delivery experience either as lead or part of project delivery team
• Experience or knowledge of agile delivery methodology including writing or contributing to user stories
• Strong MS office skills specifically in PowerPoint & Excel
• Presenting in person and virtually complex problems & solutions to senior stakeholders
• Working in a team setting to tight and agile deadlines
• Commercial awareness to support commercial engagements and spot market opportunities
• Ability to work across both Technology and Business stakeholders

Set yourself apart:

• Experience in writing points of view or presenting on fraud trends and latest fraud prevention technologies
• Experience working on a fraud project using Agile delivery methodology
• Experience using data & analytics to solve fraud & financial crime problems
• Knowledge of latest payment industry trends and impact to fraud & financial crime

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

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About Accenture

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