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 exec