Fraud Consultant - Solution​/Technical Specialist

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And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

The Role:

We are seeking a Fraud Consultant with experience in public sector and/or banking counter-fraud, with expertise in fraud technology, solution design, data and technical delivery. The role supports clients to design and implement proportionate fraud controls across services, platforms and operational processes.

The successful candidate will combine fraud expertise and consulting capability with strong technical understanding to improve prevention, detection and response arrangements across programmes and services.

Key responsibilities

Advise clients on fraud technology strategies, solution designs and implementation approaches

Support design of fraud controls, decisioning approaches and service workflows

Develop technical requirements, process flows and control specifications

Shape target architectures, delivery roadmaps and implementation plans

Support assessment of fraud platforms, products and integration options

Define data, process and non-functional requirements for secure and scalable services

Work with architecture, engineering, product and operations teams to support delivery

Produce assessments, recommendations, design inputs and business cases

Qualifications

Essential experience and skills

Experience in fraud, financial crime or counter-fraud consulting in government, public sector and/or banking

Strong understanding of fraud technology, control design and service delivery

Experience working with fraud platforms, technical solutions or product delivery

Experience developing requirements, process designs or implementation recommendations

Understanding of fraud risks across digital services, payments, identity and case management

Ability to develop practical, proportionate technical recommendations

Strong stakeholder management, writing and consulting skills

Experience implementing fraud technology solutions, operational workflows and analytical/modelling techniques

Desirable experience

Knowledge of public sector fraud platforms, identity ecosystems or technical control patterns

Experience supporting product selection, vendor assessment or implementation assurance

Experience in solution architecture, service design or technical business analysis

Understanding of data, analytics or orchestration approaches relevant to fraud services

Experience in the manipulation and summarisation of large datasets for fraud analytics and reporting purposes, through the use of Python, SAS or equivalent analytic platforms

Core consulting skills

Structured analysis and evidence-based recommendations

Ability to translate technical detail into clear client outcomes

Strong report writing and stakeholder communication

Ability to shape practical outcomes in ambiguity

Commercial awareness and support to bids and proposals

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.We…