Fraud Technology & Risk Cons
Northwestern Mutual
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Summary:
The Fraud Technology and Risk Consultant will work within the Anti-Fraud Department and with business areas across the enterprise to enhance and deliver fraud prevention, detection, and investigation technology, controls, and capabilities. As a member of the Anti-Fraud Department, the candidate will contribute to the advancement of NM’s anti-fraud program governance, strategy, processes and procedures.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Stays abreast of financial crimes risk trends, relevant regulations and compliance standards to help ensure we’re continually advancing our anti-fraud technology in line with enterprise needs and expectations; plays a key role in assessing the vendors and tools, as needed.
- Applies new perspectives and creative problem solving to provide strategic and tactical input and assistance for the development and improvement of anti-fraud technological capabilities.
- Consults and collaborates with the investigative team and others as fraud incidents occur to provide technical expertise, guidance and thought leadership throughout the process.
- Analyzes control gaps and breakdowns and provides insights and recommends solutions to remediate.
- Designs and develops fraud reports and dashboards based on department and business client needs.
- Coaches, mentors and develops peers and provides quality feedback.
- Assists with incident consultation and fraud technology efforts, as needed.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business or related field.
- Minimum of three years of experience in investigative, business analyst, or compliance roles.
- Excellent judgement, decision-making, analytical and interpersonal skills.
- High degree of organizational agility and comfort around senior leadership, demonstrated by the ability to influence, negotiate, communicate and collaborate with all levels of employees.
- Ability to be responsive to changing business needs, translate product requirements into technical requirements, manage and prioritize concurrent assignments, and handle ambiguity.
- Knowledge of risk and regulatory requirements as they apply to financial crimes is an asset.
- Experience with development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, and R.
- Experience with visualization tools, such as Power BI, preferred.
- Prior experience and knowledge of NM products, services, and organization preferred.
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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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