The role
The Fraud Risk Management and Disputes Center of Excellence is looking for an experienced Senior Staff Risk Analyst to support the areas of complex fraud ring investigations/incidents analyst investigative systems/tools and other special projects.
This is a hybrid type role sitting between Fraud Strategy (team that creates rules/alerts) and Fraud Operations (team that reviews/actions alerts) with a mission of fraud ring hunting to identify linkable patterns of fraud and acts as a feedback loop mechanism to share learnings/enhancement opportunities on both fraud alerting strategies and analyst investigative systems/tools.
The ideal candidate will have the blended skills of fraud/financial crime investigations data analysis (e.g. you can write SQL queries in your sleep and you have a favorite excel formula) and leadership/communication skills during stressful fraud incidents.
What youll do:
- Drive strategy and execution for identifying linkable patterns of fraud in the ecosystem to bulk investigate in order to mitigate losses and improve efficiency
- Comb through internal data sources and build complex SQL queries needed to splice together key attributes that are most useful in fraud investigations
- Establish a SQL library and other quick win tools to enable other investigators across the team to more efficiently identify fraud signals and insights (e.g. build bulk link analysis tools or cross product transaction queries etc.)
- Put on your product manager hat to identify pain points and propose enhanced solutions for analyst systems and tools and estimate quantifiable impacts (e.g. loss prevented or headcount cost reduction)
- Support special projects or ad-hoc investigations such as regulatory exam projects senior leadership escalations high dollar loss cases or other time sensitive and complex projects
- Collaborate with other teams on large investigations product managers on system enhancements and other cross functional teams
- Act as a feedback loop to share findings and recommendations to improve fraud prevention strategies including pro tips on investigative techniques and best practices
- Build presentations and business requirement documents to articulate the Fraud Ops investigative tools needed for existing and new products
What youll need:
- 8 years of investigation/intel/data analysis experience preferably with focus on risk management and/or fraud prevention in the banking FinTech or law enforcement space
- Highly skilled in SQL (e.g. Snowflake or Databricks) and experience working with large datasets
- Mastery of Google Sheets and Excel and experience working with Tableau
- Exceptional writing and presentation skills with the ability to articulate and consciously summarize complex investigations
- Proactive highly organized with a strong sense of ownership and accountability and the ability to independently execute always looking for ways to improve
Nice to have:
- Intelligence or law enforcement background
- Anti-money laundering AML or Sanctions investigation experience
- Experience with Python
Required Experience:
Staff IC