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:- 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
