Who Should Attend This Course ?

This course is suitable for all practitioners in fraud detection, law enforcement, security, compliance, insurance, audit and the finance function seeking an introduction and hands-on experience with data analysis techniques.

This is also a course for IT and data analytics practitioners seeking to add fraud detection capability to their existing analytics skill set.

What Will You Learn

This course will provide learning at a number of levels. At the conceptual level, the course will cover key fraud and anomaly detection tools, and teach their main strengths, weaknesses and other distinguishing features.

Participants will be exposed to a range of rule-based, statistical and visual tools for detecting fraud and other anomalies.

Hands on exercises will provide participants with experience in the actual application of methods presented to data including real-world examples.

A range of tools will be presented in detail along with exercises to provide participants actual experience in detecting anomalies in data.

Simple methods such as rule-based Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATS) will be presented first. These are tools for detecting well-defined, known anomalies. These are simple to understand, simple to implement methods widely used in accounting and audit practice. These simple methods serve as a natural staring point, and their weaknesses a motivation for more advanced methods.

The remainder of the course will be on advanced statistical and visual techniques, including Digital Analysis, Predictive Fraud Detection and Multivariate Outlier Detection, Association Rules and Social Network Analysis. These are advanced analytics techniques, and many of these are also used in Data Mining / Predictive Modelling / Big Data applications outside of fraud / anomaly detection.

These techniques are presented as powerful ways of detecting "unknown unknowns", anomalies that cannot be characterized in advance, and are detectable by their statistical signatures rather than business rules. Where CAATS deploy defined rules, the advanced analytics methods can actually identify new rules and enrich future CAATS libraries.

Participants will also be exposed to powerful data visualisation techniques to support their analysis of suspicious outliers, falsified figures, as well as Social Network Analysis for detection of collusion and time series analysis.

Examples exercises will be conducted in Microsoft Excel, and R, a powerful, free open source data analytics tool.

Accompanying theory will also describe real-life scenarios where these tools would be applied, and how the information provided fits into the broader fraud detection, prevention and investigation processes. This addresses cooperation between analytics and other members of a fraud or anomaly detection team, including subject matter experts, operational staff and investigations. Issues covered will include the necessary protocols and levels of understanding between these parties.

Theory will also cover the effective combination of CAATS with advanced tools, and the ongoing enrichment of CAATS rule bases with new rules discovered by advanced methods. This is an important knowledge management capability, providing growth in organisational "wisdom". The rule base can learn from and deal with previously seen anomalies.

What Are the Prerequisites ?

A basic level of computer literacy and some experience with spreadsheets is the minimal prerequisite.Experience with Excel would be helpful, as would some experience with R, however neither is essential. Experience in fraud detection is once again useful but not essential.

Who is the instructor ?

The course will be led by Dr Eugene Dubossarsky. Eugene is a recognised leader in the data analytics industry with 17 years of commercial experience.

He is a director of Presciient, an analytics advisory firm specialising in training, mentoring, and analytics capability development. He is the the principal founder of Analyst First, an international organisation dedicated to promoting effective, valuable analytics practice for business and government. He is also a founder of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA) and Director, University of New South Wales School of Mathematics and Statistics Industry Advisory Board. He is a frequently invited chair and keynote speaker at Business Analytics and Big Data conferences and appears in print and TV. He has worked on many applications of analytics in security, fraud detection and audit for Australian State and Federal government, as well as in the Australian and US Insurance industries. His roles in these assignments have included expert data analysis and training, as well as executive advisory and coaching and capability development. Eugene is also the founder and head of the Sydney Users of R Forum, a group with 480 members, as well as a leader and sponsor of the Melbourne and Canberra user groups.

Feedback

To email us any questions about the course, including requests for more detail, or for specific content you would like to see covered, please email enquiries@presciient.com

If you would like to attend but for any reason cannot, please also let us know.

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