Responsibilities:
- Leads complex fraud analytics initiatives from problem definition and data assessment through implementation, measurement, and ongoing monitoring.
- Designs, develops, back-tests, and optimizes offline fraud detections that generate actionable leads for investigative teams.
- Establishes performance measures for detections, including precision, recall, false-positive rates, alert volumes, loss exposure, and prevented or avoided impact.
- Identifies emerging fraud trends, anomalous behavior, common attributes, and fraud signatures across account, client, transactional, and case data.
- Leads forensic analysis and analytical support for significant fraud incidents, control gaps, and emerging typologies.
- Develops and owns executive reporting, dashboards, benchmarking, loss reporting, and recurring fraud performance products.
- Defines data quality controls and validates the completeness, accuracy, and reasonableness of fraud data used in reporting and detection.
- Documents analytical methodologies, assumptions, data lineage, and control procedures to support governance and audit readiness.
- Translates complex analytical findings into concise recommendations for fraud operations, risk partners, technology teams, and senior leadership.
- Reviews analytical approaches and work products developed by other analysts and provides technical direction, coaching, and quality assurance.
- Partners with investigative teams to establish feedback loops and disposition processes that improve detection effectiveness.
- Serves as an analytical subject-matter expert on cross-functional fraud initiatives, data modernization efforts, and evaluation of fraud tools or capabilities.
Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in data analytics, fraud analytics, risk analytics, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience independently leading complex analytical initiatives and influencing business decisions.
- Advanced SQL skills, including experience analyzing large and complex datasets.
- Proficiency in Python or another analytical programming language used for data preparation, automation, statistical analysis, or detection development.
- Advanced experience developing dashboards and executive reporting in Tableau or a comparable visualization platform.
- Experience developing, testing, monitoring, or optimizing fraud detections, risk rules, anomaly-detection methods, or analytical models.
- Strong understanding of analytical validation methods, data quality controls, and performance measurement.
- Ability to translate technical findings into concise, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to review peer work, establish analytical standards, and coach less-experienced analysts.
- Knowledge of financial-services fraud typologies, investigations, fraud operations, or fraud loss measurement strongly preferred.
- Experience working in cloud-based data environments and with governed enterprise data assets preferred.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience; graduate degree preferred.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.