Director, Fraud and Illicit Finance

Who We Are:

ACAMS is the leading international membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities for anti-financial crime education, best practices, and peer-to-peer networking to AFC professionals globally. With over 120,000 current members across 200 countries and territories, ACAMS is committed to the mission of combatting financial crime through the provision of anti-money laundering/counterterrorism-financing, anti-fraud and sanctions knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, risk-mitigation services, and platforms for public-private dialogue. The association’s CAMS certification is the gold-standard qualification for AFC professionals. It also offers CGSS certification for sanctions professionals, CAFS certification for anti-fraud professionals, and CCAS certification for AFC practitioners in the crypto space. ACAMS’ 65 Chapters globally, further amplify the association’s mission through training and networking initiatives. Visit acams.org for more information.

Opportunity at a Glance

This exciting new position will be responsible for a global portfolio of successful thought leadership activities and events geared towards driving forward a global convening, research, leadership and inform agenda. The Director will advance a critical role in spearheading US and global dialogue surrounding the evolving threat of illicit financial activity, with a specific emphasis on the fusion of fraud, technology and illicit actors. Having responsibility for a small team the Director will shape implementation of thought leadership activities in areas including global taskforces, research collaboration, social impact, expert-level discussions, roundtables, training and professional education. The role will require close collaboration with the full thought leadership team plus senior external stakeholders. Excellent organizational skills, a collaborative personality and willingness to drive forward an ambitious global agenda are essential. This is a senior expert level position that will suit someone willing to take on the challenges of driving forwards the global anti-fraud and illicit finance regulatory, policy and operational agenda. Demonstrable experience of shaping international dialogue on fraud related aspects will be necessary.

Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in advancing international thought leadership, including the work of the ACAMS International Fraud and Technology Taskforce, ensuring global output shapes wider senior level convening opportunities including those with global standard setters, international bodies, senior stakeholders and international gatherings such as the IMF/World Bank annual meetings.
• In collaboration with thought leadership colleagues track US and global trends and issues raised by regulators and other stakeholders to drive the regular issuance of industry updates, and bespoke executive and C-suite briefings.
• Contribute to a calendar of thought leadership publishing and research activity surrounding illicit finance, fraud and evolving technologies. This will include an exceptional ability to build content and draft papers, opinion pieces, executive briefings, best practice tool kits and other related thought pieces.
• In collaboration with colleagues, undertake a concerted program of focused industry, government, regulatory and law enforcement engagement and roundtables to ensure ACAMS is adequately positioned to respond to new and evolving regulatory, risk and compliance developments.
• Working with communication colleagues to respond to strategic media enquiries, support media campaigns including preparing targeted Opinion Pieces aimed at tier 1 media outlets and high-profile trade publications.
• Develop fraud and other anti-financial crime content for ACAMS global events, virtual activities and webinar program, including regularly supporting content development, moderating, and speaking on panels, webinars and masterclasses.
• Work closely with colleagues in learning and content development teams input into scalable and bespoke training program design, development review and delivery.
• Lead a small team of dedicated subject matter experts and take key responsibility for advancing ACAMS global fraud outputs
  
  

Skills, Qualifications And Experience

• 10 plus years in a senior anti-financial crime role including with demonstrable policy experience on US/global fraud policy developments. Ideally, this experience will have been gained in either a senior government, standard setter, regulatory capacity or with a major institution.
• Direct experience of international policy forums, such as the Financial Action Task Force or equivalent.
• Strong professional network of US and international fraud and anti-financial crime contacts.
• Strong track record of engagement with senior compliance practitioners at global financial institutions.
• Superior presentation and exceptional oral and written business communication skills as evidenced by a portfolio of public speaking engagements and relevant publications.
• Proactive and creative thinker with a proven ability to work independently and collaboratively to build and develop key stakeholder relationships and promote global thought leadership initiatives.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools especially Word and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage the latest AI tools and technologies to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-driven decision making.
• Must be fluent English speaker and writer at native speaker level. Fluency in Spanish or another language is a distinct advantage.
• Ability to work flexible hours when working with global colleagues and at events taking place in different time zones.
• International travel may occasionally be required thus necessitating a valid passport and freedom of movement.
  
  

EEO

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At ACAMS, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.