Vice President, Financial Crimes Advisory, Data & Analytics - Remote, U.S.

Job Description:

We are AML RightSource, the leading technology-enabled managed services firm focused on fighting financial crime for our clients and the world. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and operating across the globe, we are a trusted partner to our financial institution, FinTech, money service business, and corporate clients.

Using a blend of highly trained anti-financial crime professionals, cutting-edge technology tools, and industry-leading consultants, we help clients with their AML/BSA, transaction monitoring, client onboarding (KYC), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and risk management needs.

We support clients in meeting day-to-day compliance tasks, urgent projects, and strategic changes. Globally, our staff of more than 6,000 highly trained analysts and subject matter experts is the industry's largest group of full-time compliance professionals. Together with our clients, we are Reimagining Compliance.

The Financial Crime Advisory (FCA) Practice at AML RightSource is made up of a team of industry and subject matter specialists that provide advisory services specific to financial crime programs, policies, and technology to C-suite-level executives across the world. Our scope of services includes, but is not limited to, program transformation, gap analysis, model validations, policy redesign, system implementation, and model optimization. Our FCA team aims to help clients build and optimize their financial crime compliance programs by leveraging a technology-enabled approach for some of the world's largest organizations.

About the Position

As a Vice President, Financial Crimes Data & Analytics, within our Financial Crimes Advisory (FCA) team you will primarily be responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to the Data & Analytics resources within our Financial Crimes Advisory team.  This will include providing oversight over the data and analytics focused client projects that the FCA team delivers as well as helping the team achieve operational excellence goals.  The successful candidate must be knowledgeable on financial crimes related regulations, regulatory guidance and industry best practices.  The ideal candidate should possess experience in data analysis, statistical and quantitative analysis, and predictive modeling to provide insights that tackle client challenges in the financial crimes sector. Additionally, they should have a background in leading projects involving AI and machine learning technologies, including neural networks, natural language processing (NLP), and advanced learning algorithms.

As a leader of our Advisory team, this individual will be responsible for leveraging this subject matter expertise to lead engagement teams to produce high quality deliverables for clients, serve as a trusted advisor to clients, and develop new and well-rounded service offerings that address emerging client needs.  In regard to new service offerings, this individual will work closely with other FCA VPs so the individual must excel in collaborative environments.

It is important that the individual who fills this position has a track record of selling advisory services to buyers in the financial services industry, brings with them a personal network of contacts across the industry, and has a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Primary Responsibilities

Engagement Leadership

• Successfully oversee the delivery of multiple AML, Sanctions and Fraud (collectively "financial crimes") data and analytics engagements that are delivered to our clients across their three lines of defense.  Projects include but are not limited to those focused on model development and implementation, model validations, model tunings/optimizations, system implementations, and coverage assessments.
• Effectively serve as lead point of contact for engagement teams and clients, providing day-to-day direction to engagement teams, reviewing and providing feedback to engagement teams on client deliverables, providing ongoing coaching and mentoring to team members, serving as an escalation point for risks and issues and leading such matters through to resolution, and leading key client meetings.
• Promote effective project management, quality assurance principles, and financials management during engagement execution, ensuring engagements meet client expectations, budgets and communicated timelines. 
• Serve as a subject matter expert in financial crimes data and analytics related matters, providing guidance to clients and colleagues across the organization and in doing so convert analytical solutions into practical insights that can be understood and utilized by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Maintain oversight of the status of the data analytics-focused engagements being executed by the FCA team in North America

Sales and Go-To-Market

• Maintain an active presence in the market, to promote the AMLRS brand and capabilities and identify opportunities to provide AMLRS services to new clients.
• Maintain and nurture board and senior management-level relationships throughout the business community.

• Participate in business development initiatives, including the development of thought leadership pieces, taking on speaking roles, and developing proposal responses.
• Effectively manage existing client relationships and identify opportunities to provide additional services to existing clients.
• Promote the accurate pricing of engagements based on client needs.  Work with FCA resources and other support functions to prepare and negotiate contracts with clients.
• Deliver presentations to senior level executives.
• Identify opportunities to collaborate with other AMLRS client-facing divisions.
• Maintain oversight of the pipeline of data analytics focused engagements being executed by the FCA team in North America.

Internal Initiatives and People Leadership

• Provide leadership to ensure that the mission, core values and strategy of the company are put into practice.
• Demonstrate support in advancing company revenue and profitability objectives.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop, communicate and execute on an effective growth strategy for the FCA practice.
• Assist with the development and implementation of effective operational processes.
• Identify opportunities to build out the portfolio of FCA data and analytics related service offerings and lead the development of such efforts.
• Identify resource needs.  Recruit, train, mentor and develop advisory team members.  Promote the development of technical skills within the team, with a particular focus on advanced machine learning and generative AI.
• Provide periodic performance reviews to team members and be an active participant in the annual performance review process.
• Assist FCA leadership with day-to-day team management activities, in particular as they relate to the data analytics resources on the FCA team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with a preference for Computer Science, Accounting, or Finance or other qualified business-related degree or equivalent years of experience.
• Strong working knowledge of North America financial crimes laws, rules and regulations, regulatory expectations and industry best practices.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of relevant data analytics experience, preferably in AML/Sanctions/Fraud, working in industry or at professional services firms in a financial crimes technology focused advisory / consulting role.  Relevant experience from industry includes time spent:
  • Overseeing or executing on financial crimes data and analytics programs,
  • Overseeing or executing on model and data governance programs,
  • Implementing financial crimes technology solutions including advanced technology capabilities such as Machine Learning / GenAI, NPL; performing technology focused exams, audits or other testing.
• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with prevalent and emerging financial crimes technologies utilized to support Know Your Customer, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, and Fraud processes.
• Deep experience in programming languages including SQL, Oracle and Python.  Proficient in Power BI, Tableau, and machine learning model development.
• A minimum of five (5) years in a managerial or leadership role, with a proven ability to lead, mentor and coach diverse teams of varying sizes
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit - highly collaborative, able to express ideas readily, manage change fluidly, able to influence and identify opportunities for improvement
• Candidates must have a portable and established network of financial services industry contacts and have a track record of selling advisory services
• Ability to interact seamlessly with C-suite, senior executives and Boards of Directors
• Ability to quickly diagnose issues and to develop and successfully oversee the execution of action plans
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and as part of a team, establishing cooperative and collaborative working relationships, including managing conflict and escalations should they arise

• Excellent interpersonal, communication (both writing and verbal), marketing, sales and organizational skills
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a focus on Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Ability to travel as needed
• Must be able to work in North America without sponsorship now or in the future

Preferred Qualifications

• CAMS or similar certification
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration or related field
• Experience and/or knowledge in: (i) non-traditional financial services organizations (e.g., payments, fintech, crypto, etc); and (ii) understanding and/or knowledge of European and Asia Pacific financial crimes laws and regulations.

Salary Details

AML RightSource is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.