Entity: - Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Team: - Strategy & Consulting – Global Network

Practice: - CFO & EV - Financial Crime Analytics

Title: - Ind & Func AI Decision Science Manager

Job location: - Gurgaon, Bangalore, Pune & Mumbai

About S&C - Global Network: - Data & AI practice help our clients grow their business in entirely new ways. Analytics enables our clients to achieve high performance through insights from data - insights that inform better decisions and strengthen customer relationships. From strategy to execution, Accenture works with organizations to develop analytic capabilities - from accessing and reporting on data to predictive modelling - to outperform the competition.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Accenture CFO & EV team under Data & AI team has comprehensive suite of capabilities in Risk, Fraud, Financial crime, and Finance. Within risk realm, our focus revolves around the model development, model validation, and auditing of models. Additionally, our work extends to ongoing performance evaluation, vigilant monitoring, meticulous governance, and thorough documentation of models.
• Get to work with top financial clients globally
• Access resources enabling you to utilize cutting-edge technologies, fostering innovation with the world’s most recognizable companies.
• Accenture will continually invest in your learning and growth and will support you in expanding your knowledge. You’ll be part of a diverse and vibrant team collaborating with talented individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines continually pushing the boundaries of business capabilities, fostering an environment of innovation.

What you would do in this role

The ideal candidate shall,

• Lead the team to deliver value to client by designing, developing, validating, monitoring, and deploying advanced Financial Crime models for different client problems.
• Interface with clients/account team to understand engineering/business problems and translate it into analytics problems that shall deliver insights for action and operational improvements.
• Have strong communication and presentation skills to effectively convey complex data insights and recommendations to clients and stakeholders.
• Influence & inspire the team with the technical expertise on Financial Crime solutions and the soft skills required for stakeholder management, setting the correct expectations.
• Provide thought leadership, best practices, and standards on advanced Financial Crime analytics.

Who are we looking for?

• Have Master’s degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, or related field or MBA from top-tier universities with a strong record of achievement, solid analytical ability, team leading capabilities and an entrepreneurial hands-on approach to work.
• Overall 10+ years of experience Analytics & at least 6+ years of relevant Financial Crime Analytics experience at one or more Financial Services firms, or Professional Services / Risk Advisory with significant exposure to one or more of the following areas:
• Anti Money Laundering, Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Customer KYC/CDD, Customer screening, etc.
• Proven work experience in Financial Crime solutions and leading a team.
• Advanced skills in development, validation and monitoring of AML analytics models, strategies, visualizations. Understanding of evolving methodologies/ tools/ technologies in the Financial Crime management space.
• Expertise in one or more domain/industry including regulations, frameworks etc.
• Experience in building models using AI/ML methodologies.
• Modeling: Experience in one or more of analytical tools such as SAS, R, Python, SQL, etc.  Knowledge of data processes, ETL and tools/ vendor products such as Fenergo, NICE Actimize, SAS AML, Quantexa, Ripjar, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

Engagement Execution: 

• Lead a team in client engagements that may involve model development, validation, governance, strategy, transformation, implementation and end-to-end delivery of financial crime analytics/management solutions for Accenture’s clients.
• Advise clients on a wide range of Financial Crime Management/ Analytics initiatives. Projects may involve Financial Crime Management advisory work for CXOs, etc. to achieve a variety of business and operational outcomes.
• Develop and frame Proof of Concept for key clients, where applicable.

Practice Enablement:

• Guide junior team members.
• Support development of the Practice by driving innovations, initiatives.
• Develop thought capital and disseminate information around current and emerging trends in Financial Crime Analytics and Management.
• Travel: Willingness to travel up to 40% of the time.

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