Vice President – Financial Crimes Advisory – Data & Analytics

Vice President – Financial Crimes Advisory – Data & Analytics

Requirements

• Bachelors degree with a preference for Computer Science, Accounting, or Finance or other qualified business-related degree or equivalent years of experience.
• Strong working knowledge of North America financial crimes laws, rules and regulations, regulatory expectations and industry best practices.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant data analytics experience, preferably in AML/Sanctions/Fraud, working in industry or at professional services firms in a financial crimes technology focused advisory / consulting role.
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with prevalent and emerging financial crimes technologies utilized to support Know Your Customer, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, and Fraud processes.
• Deep experience in programming languages including SQL, Oracle and Python. Proficient in Power BI, Tableau, and machine learning model development.
• A minimum of five (5) years in a managerial or leadership role, with a proven ability to lead, mentor and coach diverse teams of varying sizes.
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit – highly collaborative, able to express ideas readily, manage change fluidly, able to influence and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Candidates must have a portable and established network of financial services industry contacts and have a track record of selling advisory services.
• Ability to interact seamlessly with C-suite, senior executives and Boards of Directors.
• Ability to quickly diagnose issues and to develop and successfully oversee the execution of action plans.
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and as part of a team, establishing cooperative and collaborative working relationships, including managing conflict and escalations should they arise.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (both writing and verbal), marketing, sales and organizational skills.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a focus on Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• Must be able to work in North America without sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

• Successfully oversee the delivery of multiple AML, Sanctions and Fraud (collectively “financial crimes”) data and analytics engagements that are delivered to our clients across their three lines of defense. Projects include but are not limited to those focused on model development and implementation, model validations, model tunings/optimizations, system implementations, and coverage assessments.
• Effectively serve as lead point of contact for engagement teams and clients, providing day-to-day direction to engagement teams, reviewing and providing feedback to engagement teams on client deliverables, providing ongoing coaching and mentoring to team members, serving as an escalation point for risks and issues and leading such matters through to resolution, and leading key client meetings.
• Promote effective project management, quality assurance principles, and financials management during engagement execution, ensuring engagements meet client expectations, budgets and communicated timelines.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in financial crimes data and analytics related matters, providing guidance to clients and colleagues across the organization and in doing so convert analytical solutions into practical insights that can be understood and utilized by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Maintain oversight of the status of the data analytics-focused engagements being executed by the FCA team in North America.
• Maintain an active presence in the market, to promote the AMLRS brand and capabilities and identify opportunities to provide AMLRS services to new clients.
• Maintain and nurture board and senior management-level relationships throughout the business community.
• Participate in business development initiatives, including the development of thought leadership pieces, taking on speaking roles, and developing proposal responses.
• Effectively manage existing client relationships and identify opportunities to provide additional services to existing clients.
• Promote the accurate pricing of engagements based on client needs. Work with FCA resources and other support functions to prepare and negotiate contracts with clients.
• Deliver presentations to senior level executives.
• Identify opportunities to collaborate with other AMLRS client-facing divisions.
• Maintain oversight of the pipeline of data analytics focused engagements being executed by the FCA team in North America.
• Provide leadership to ensure that the mission, core values and strategy of the company are put into practice.
• Demonstrate support in advancing company revenue and profitability objectives.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop, communicate and execute on an effective growth strategy for the FCA practice.
• Assist with the development and implementation of effective operational processes.
• Identify opportunities to build out the portfolio of FCA data and analytics related service offerings and lead the development of such efforts.
• Identify resource needs. Recruit, train, mentor and develop advisory team members. Promote the development of technical skills within the team, with a particular focus on advanced machine learning and generative AI.
• Provide periodic performance reviews to team members and be an active participant in the annual performance review process.
• Assist FCA leadership with day-to-day team management activities, in particular as they relate to the data analytics resources on the FCA team.

Preferred Qualifications

• CAMS or similar certification
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration or related field
• Experience and/or knowledge in: (i) non-traditional financial services organizations (e.g., payments, fintech, crypto, etc); and (ii) understanding and/or knowledge of European and Asia Pacific financial crimes laws and regulations.