Senior Data Forensics Investigator & Discovery

BRG; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BRG's Disputes & Investigations practice seeks a Senior Associate/ Consultant with expertise in fraud risk, data analytics, and global investigations to lead engagements in fraud detection, analytics, and data-driven risk management. The candidate should possess experience with big data tools, cloud ML, and platforms like Actimize/FICO to design and implement fraud detection solutions.

The role involves managing engagement teams, communicating with diverse stakeholders, and delivering actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in MIS or related field; and
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in regulatory investigations, internal investigations, and compliance remediation work.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging thorough knowledge of SQL, Python or R, data science skills, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, and social network analysis.
• Demonstrating considerable experience with big data tools such as Hadoop and PySpark, cloud computing, and cloud machine learning tools.
• Knowledge of the anti-fraud business domain in the e-commerce, payments, healthcare, and banking industries.
• Demonstrating considerable ability to develop fraud detection rules and/or models deployed in systems such as Actimize, FICO Falcon, SAS Fraud Management, or other platforms.
• Leveraging considerable experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire, or QlikView; and
• Evaluating new tools and products that enhance risk detection and prevention.
• Applying considerable knowledge of the subject matter to the development and prioritization of anti-fraud strategies, analytics, models, and operations.
• Managing engagement teams and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, cross-functional, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
• Communicating with business, risk, compliance, operations, technology, and analytics stakeholders on client engagements.
• Fostering positive working relationships with clients and working effectively with client management and staff at all levels to gather information and perform services.
• Using presentation materials to convey complex ideas to clients and internal staff.
• Managing engagements, including preparing concise and accurate documents and maintaining project economics while remaining flexible for unanticipated issues.
• Providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; and
• Keeping leadership informed of progress and issues, answering questions, and providing direction to more junior staff.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Data analytics

Fraud risk

Big data

Tableau

PySpark

Social network analysis

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in MIS / Engineering / Accounting / CS

Tools

Hadoop

Actimize

FICO Falcon

Tableau

SAS Fraud Management

Azure

Job description

BRG's Disputes & Investigations practice seeks a Senior Associate/ Consultant with expertise in fraud risk, data analytics, and global investigations to lead engagements in fraud detection, analytics, and data-driven risk management. The candidate should possess experience with big data tools, cloud ML, and platforms like Actimize/FICO to design and implement fraud detection solutions.

The role involves managing engagement teams, communicating with diverse stakeholders, and delivering actionable