Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst

$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in fraud analytics, fraud strategy, or financial crimes
  • Experience in fraud rules management or transaction monitoring
  • Familiarity with payments fraud, account takeover, or digital fraud risks
  • Strong analytical skills and experience with data-driven decision-making
  • Proficiency in SQL, SAS, Python, or similar tools and visualization software like Tableau or Power BI
  • Experience in working across cross-functional teams
  • Basic understanding of fraud models or scoring methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain fraud rules and detection strategies for transactions
  • Analyze fraud trends and rule performance to enhance detection rates
  • Conduct data analysis to identify fraud patterns and control gaps
  • Optimize real-time decision performance through rule tuning
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams
  • Provide analytical support for fraud investigations and mitigation efforts
  • Deliver clear reporting on fraud trends and control effectiveness
  • Ensure fraud controls comply with governance and risk standards.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for this position
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunity to impact fraud detection at a large scale
  • Engage in cross-functional projects with diverse teams
  • Work with advanced tools and technologies in fraud analytics.
Full Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Set Fraud Strategy & Coverage: Define fraud prevention strategy across real-time payment channels, including risk appetite and control coverage.

  • Own Real-Time Decisioning: Design and manage fraud rules, decision logic, and detection strategies within real-time decisioning platforms.

  • Lead Platform & Capability Build: Drive enhancements and implementation of fraud rules engines and decisioning platforms in partnership with engineering.

  • Optimize Performance Outcomes: Monitor and improve fraud detection, false positives, and client friction through ongoing control tuning and performance management.

  • Leverage Data & Models: Use analytics and model insights to identify trends, refine strategies, and improve detection effectiveness.

  • Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations to embed fraud controls into customer journeys and new product launches.

  • Ensure Strong Governance: Maintain disciplined control testing, monitoring, and adherence to risk and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

Required Experience

  • 4+ years in fraud risk, payments risk, or financial crimes

  • Expertise in: Account takeover, social engineering, and transaction fraud risks within retirement and workplace channels

  • Proven experience managing real-time fraud decisioning environments and rules strategies

  • Strong experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations

  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field. Graduate degree preferred.

Technical & Analytical Skills

  • Expertise in fraud rules engines / decisioning platforms

  • Strong analytical capabilities (data analysis, segmentation, performance optimization)

  • Working knowledge of fraud models / machine learning concepts and model governance

  • Ability to translate data into actionable fraud strategies and business decisions

  • Strong experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, SQL, and platforms such as Tableau or Power BI.

Leadership & Communication

  • Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills.

  • Highly collaborative with a track record of driving alignment across teams.

    Special Factors

    Sponsorship

    Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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