Strategic Advisor, Fraud & AML

Strategic Advisor, Fraud and AML

Location: US Remote

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Datos Insights is a forward-thinking mid-market information services company poised for growth that serves clients in the financial services industry. Datos provides research subscriptions, benchmarking services, custom consulting projects and advisory to CXOs of leading financial and technology firms worldwide.

Datos Insights exists to improve financial services for people and businesses around the world, working with financial institutions, insurers and their vendor partners to power economic opportunity and prosperity. We help our clients drive enterprise-wide change by accelerating stakeholder alignment, inspiring decisive action, and de-risking strategic investments. Our services are anchored in objective, unique, proprietary data, enhanced by our powerful global network and delivered through our experienced team.

The Opportunity

This Strategic Advisor will be part of the Datos Fraud and AML practice, supporting our clients and executing our growth strategy.

Strategic Advisors serve as a trusted partner to senior executives, providing strategic guidance and actionable insights, based on proprietary data, benchmarks, research, and industry best practices. This role requires industry expertise, strong relationship management skills, and the ability to translate complex data and research into practical, high-impact recommendations that drive business outcomes.

What You'll Do

Client Engagement and Advisory

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior AML and/or Fraud executives, understand their business challenges, and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with product leaders and analyst relations teams at the vendors who support Fraud and AML capabilities.
• Deliver compelling insights through one-on-one briefings and presentations; occasionally participate in roundtable discussions, meetings, or similar events.
• Surface opportunities for consulting project work through client relationships.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with sales and account management teams in pre-sales activities and to drive engagement and retention.
• Partner with account management teams and research team to drive participation in benchmarking studies.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to refine product offerings and enhance value delivery.

Research and Thought Leadership

• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging challenges
• Work closely with research and product teams to ensure product quality.
• Support the research team in an advisory, editorial, or oversight capacity across major stages of content development, especially where the content is built off of findings from our datasets. Examples: determining scope, hypothesis formulation, and other research design tasks, as well as standard content creation activities—storyboarding, visualizations, writing and editing.
• Serve as an author and/or contributor for secondary deliverables.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7-10 years of AML and/or Fraud experience in a senior advisory, consulting, or leadership role.
• Deep expertise in managing financial rime risks, threats, and attack vectors as well as implementing innovative and diverse technologies, solutions, and approaches in tackling current challenges and achieving adherence to evolving regulatory requirements
• Experience advising senior AML and/or Fraud executives on strategy, operations, or organizational challenges.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop relationships with business and risk leaders.
• Business acumen and understanding of risk management strategy, operations, and leadership challenges.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Ability to tell a story with data and produce compelling material that captures senior executives' attention.
• Comfortable with quantitative analysis, especially with the interpretation of key findings (e.g., can differentiate between meaningful and spurious data, can explain methodologies and concepts to nonexperts; good pattern recognition abilities).
• Strong network of AML and/or Fraud contacts across financial services firms and solution and service providers.
• Fluency with MS Office.
• Intermediate skills with Gen AI and a desire to do more as these tools evolve.
• Familiarity with Salesforce/CRM.

What Working at Datos Insights offers

• Opportunity to shape the organization's future – and help scale it and grow it over the next 5 years. There'll never be a dull moment.
• Learn and/or hone the skills that prepare you for a general management career, giving you a ringside view into business decision-making at all levels.
• Gain access to world-class financial services and insurance experts as your colleagues – if you choose to be a practitioner in the future, Datos is a great place to forge that career.
• Flexible work environment.
• Most importantly, every single day, work with kind, smart, hardworking people with a great sense of humor who appreciate you for who you are.

Datos Insights is committed to offering a rewarding professional environment. The compensation package includes base salary, incentives, 401(k) with employer match, unlimited time off and full medical/dental/vision benefits. Datos Insights is an equal opportunity employer. xhyhwjd

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