Senior Managing Strategy Consultant - Fraud and Financial Crime Specialist

IBM
IBM

Accounting & Finance

Posted on Oct 3, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Strategy Consultant specializing in Compliance & Conduct Risk, you will advise and strategize with clients to develop solutions that address their most complex regulatory issues while minimizing overall risk and aligning with their business strategy. You will work predominantly with financial institutions, providing expert guidance to navigate intricate regulatory landscapes.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Develop Regulatory Solutions: Collaborate with clients to design and implement tailored solutions that mitigate compliance and conduct risks, ensuring alignment with their strategic objectives and business goals.
  • Strategize Risk Minimization: Advise clients on effective strategies to minimize their overall risk exposure, taking into account the complexities of regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
  • Provide Expert Guidance: Offer authoritative counsel to clients on regulatory matters, leveraging deep expertise in compliance and conduct risk to inform their decision-making processes.
  • Support financial institutions in assessing, designing, and enhancing fraud risk management programs across payments fraud, account takeover, identity theft, check fraud, card fraud, and emerging digital fraud threats.
  • Conduct fraud risk assessments, control reviews, and fraud operating model evaluations to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen controls, and improve detection and response capabilities.
  • Assist clients with fraud strategy development, fraud governance, and regulatory remediation initiatives, helping align programs with evolving regulatory expectations and industry leading practices.
  • Analyze fraud typologies, fraud losses, and detection performance metrics to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for control optimization.
  • Support the implementation and tuning of fraud detection technologies, analytics, AI, and machine learning solutions to improve fraud prevention while minimizing customer friction

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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in Regulatory Compliance: Proven experience in developing and implementing regulatory solutions for financial institutions, with a strong understanding of compliance and conduct risk management.

• Strategic Risk Management: Experience in designing and executing strategies to minimize risk exposure for clients, taking into account regulatory requirements and industry best practices.

• Industry-Specific Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry, including its regulatory landscape, business operations, and strategic objectives.

• Solution Development: Experience in collaborating with clients to design and implement tailored solutions that address complex regulatory issues and align with their business strategy.

• Authoritative Counsel: Proven ability to provide expert guidance to clients on regulatory matters, leveraging deep expertise in compliance and conduct risk to inform their decision-making processes.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Advanced Regulatory Knowledge: Experience with regulatory frameworks and standards governing financial institutions, including anti-money laundering, data protection, and financial reporting requirements.

• Enterprise Risk Management: Deep understanding of enterprise risk management principles, including risk assessment, mitigation, and monitoring, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a consulting setting.

• Financial Services Acumen: In-depth knowledge of financial services products, services, and operations, including banking, securities, and insurance, with the ability to understand the complexities of these businesses.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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