Management Consulting Principal Director

Accenture Middle East


Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Riyadh
Contract type: Full time
Location: Riyadh, KSA

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients. 

In this role you will:


  • Advise clients on improving fraud and / or financial crime prevention, detection, and response utilizing skills and experience across policy, process, technology, data, and analytics
  • Lead client engagements and be accountable for their successful delivery and client impact
  • Work with the latest technologies to solve problems related to financial crime
  • Understand and solve complex business problems and present back solutions to stakeholders
  • Be agile and agnostic to solutions as you work with different client circumstances and as financial crime evolves at an ever-increasing pace
  • Work alongside our global clients, with opportunities to travel
  • Write point of views on industry trends
  • Support in development of sales proposals and offerings
  • Contribute financial crime SME knowledge to a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders
  • Contribute to the Risk practice community and build a network across Accenture and clients


  • We are looking for experience in the following skills:


  • Experience working in fraud or one or more of the following financial crime areas; Anti-money laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF), Know Your Customer (KYC), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) or Surveillance
  • Experience working within a fraud or financial crime department in a change, advisory, technology, analytics, or operational capacity (as a consultant or in a financial service, government, regulatory, or commercial organization).
  • Experience working with fraud and financial crime technologies such as Falcon, Feature space, Feedzai, Actimize, SAS, Sira, Hunter, BAE Netreveal, Oracle Mantas, Fenergo, or Quantexa
  • Understanding of how data and analytics can be used to prevent, detect, and manage financial crime
  • Experience in conducting risk assessments
  • Good understanding of the financial crime risk and control framework and best practices for financial crime risk management
  • Project delivery experience either as lead or part of project delivery team
  • Strong MS office skills specifically in PowerPoint and Excel
  • The ability to present complex problems and solutions to senior stakeholders
  • The ability to work effectively within a team setting to tight and agile deadlines
  • Commercial awareness to support commercial engagements and spot market opportunities
  • Able to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders including the ability to work across both technology and business stakeholders  


  • Why join us?


  • We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
  • You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
  • Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
  • You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
  • You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live


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