Management Consulting - Fraud / Risk

Job Role: Fraud Consultant

Location: London / Manchester

Career Level: Consultant (CL9)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, SONG, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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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 solutions 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 manage 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

• 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

Job Qualifications

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

• A good understanding of the latest industry innovations in fraud prevention from Behavioural Biometrics through to GenAI - Change GenAI to Agentic AI

• Agility and the ability to be agnostic to solutions as you work with different client circumstances and as fraud evolves at an ever-increasing pace

• Understanding of the latest fraud regulations specifically the PSR APP Reimbursement regulations

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. 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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