Datos Insights is looking for a Fraud Strategic Advisor to join our Fraud & AML practice. Interested and qualified? Submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected].
At Datos Insights, we exist to improve financial services for people and businesses around the world to power economic opportunity and prosperity. We help our clients drive enterprise-wide change by accelerating stakeholder alignment, inspiring decisive action, and de-risking strategic investments. The quality of our research, insights, and advice is anchored in objective, unique, proprietary data, enhanced by our powerful global network, and delivered through our experienced team of experts. Our advisors share a common set of core values: independence, objectivity, curiosity, and integrity.
The Fraud & AML practice provides coverage across a range of fraud and AML topics through business, technology, and regulatory lenses. The practice focuses its research and advisory services supporting global and domestic financial institutions (retail and commercial banks, insurers, and wealth management firms), technology providers serving financial institutions, and professional services firms. Our distinctive research and insights combine deep industry expertise with actionable intelligence, enabling decisive action on complex fraud and anti-money laundering challenges. Through deep proprietary data, expert-driven analysis, and practitioner-led insights, we empower banks, payment networks, and fintech providers and their technology solution partners to accelerate strategic initiatives, de-risk critical technology investments, and transform and modernize risk management and compliance frameworks.
The ideal candidate brings:
- Exemplary industry expertise (8 to 12 years of experience) across fraud mitigation roles at a leading financial institution, payment firm, technology vendor, industry analyst firm, or management consultancy
- Expertise in the leading trends around fraud mitigation and authentication, including familiarity with the latest trends and solution sets around scams, account takeover, application fraud, and card fraud
- Experience in and knowledge of the payments, ecommerce, and merchant ecosystems as well as designing, building, and launching fraud, dispute and chargeback management systems are preferred but not required
- Proficiency in technology and business strategies
- Proven written and oral communication skills
- An ability to formulate original analyses and actionable recommendations, quantitative analysis skills
- Fluency in English required; fluency in additional languages is always welcome
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required; an MBA is a plus
Strategic Advisors are expected to excel in the following areas:
- Conducting high-quality research, assimilating, managing, and analyzing complex data, and producing actionable insights and high value reports
- Providing ongoing advice, insights, and support to the financial institutions, technology vendors, and consultants that subscribe to our research practices and playing an integral role in establishing and nurturing long-term client relationships
- Leading and handling multiple advisory and consulting engagements as well as various firm and Fraud & AML practice initiatives and business development projects
- Building a global network of industry contacts to support our research, advisory, consulting, and event offerings and otherwise supporting the sales team in expanding our client base
- Regularly presenting on webinars and at Datos-hosted, industry, and client conferences and events
- Becoming a source of reference for the trade and top-tier press
Datos Insights seeks personable individuals who can work independently with minimal supervision, collaborate across teams, and use AI-based tools and technologies. We welcome inquiring minds and provocative thinkers who, in addition to closely following their own sector, keep current with domestic and global social, economic, and political trends and issues.
Datos Insights is committed to offering a rewarding professional environment. Compensation consists of a base salary, a performance-based bonus, a 401k with employer match, flexible time off and full medical, dental and vision benefits.
Datos Insights is an equal opportunity employer. Datos Insights will never contact you from a domain other than @Datos-Insights.com.