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

Job Family:

Risk & Regulatory Compliance Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 75%+

Clearance Required:

None

What You Will Do:

• Provide fraud advisory and industry domain expertise to help clients assess, design, and strengthen fraud risk management programs across prevention, detection, investigation, and recovery. 

• Lead client engagements to define fraud strategy, operating model, governance, policies/procedures, and control enhancements across prevention, detection, investigation, and recovery. 

• Facilitate working sessions with client stakeholders and third parties to evaluate current-state capabilities, define target-state needs, and prioritize pragmatic improvements to reduce fraud losses and operational friction. 

• Conduct fraud risk assessments and program effectiveness reviews across commercial sector clients, covering key typologies, channels, products, and customer journeys. 

• Author fraud advisory thought leadership (whitepapers, POVs, case studies, playbooks) on emerging typologies, regulatory expectations, and leading practices. 

• Support leadership in business development activities to scale the fraud advisory practice (e.g., proposals, client workshops, and solution positioning). 

• Advise client leaders on fraud risk requirements, risk appetite, governance, escalation paths, and decisioning approaches to improve detection, investigations, and customer outcomes. 

• Review fraud metrics, trends, and analytical outputs to identify root causes, control gaps, and actionable recommendations, and to support executive-ready reporting and governance routines. 

• Responsible for following firm risk management protocols to ensure quality of all client deliverables. 

• Responsible for day-to-day activities of a project including interaction with other team members, professionals from other firms involved in the engagement, and client personnel. 

• Prepare client-ready deliverables (risk assessments, operating model artifacts, control matrices, playbooks, and executive summaries) that document findings, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps. 

What You Will Need:

• Experience supporting fraud and other financial crime programs (e.g., investigations, monitoring/alert triage, case management, disputes/claims, recovery) and related control environments. 

• Knowledge of fraud typologies and the ability to translate them into actionable policy, process, control, and operating model improvements across customer and employee use cases. 

• Familiarity with common fraud monitoring concepts (rules, segmentation, alerts, model outputs) and the ability to interpret results and convert them into business, process, and control recommendations. 

• Strong project management and time management skills. Able to manage several projects simultaneously and autonomously, as well as prioritize as necessary. 

• Strong conceptual, as well as quantitative and qualitative analytical skills. 

• Effective communication skills that drive decisions.

Travel will be required depending on client needs.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Bachelor’s degree.

• Fraud advisory experience in financial services, FinTech, or consulting, including fraud risk assessments, control enhancement, investigations support, and stakeholder management. 

• 7+ years of experience assisting in large scale projects within financial services with minimal guidance.  

• Experience in a management consulting/advisory company. 

• Industry Certification (CFE, CAFS, etc.) 

• Exposure to vendor fraud tooling and case management platforms (to support requirements, assessments, and implementation planning) is a plus. 

• Local to NYC or DC metropolitan areas.

The annual salary range for this position is $122,000.00-$204,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• 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

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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