Principal Retail Fraud Operations Analyst

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world helping business owners operate increase sales engage customers and keep employees is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business increase sales engage guests and keep employees happy. The Fraud Operations Team at Toast works to prevent fraud for Toast our customers and our guests. The team is responsible for fraud prevention across our Fintech suite from access controls to transaction monitoring.

The Principal Fraud Operations Analyst will play a critical role in identifying and mitigating fraud across Toasts expanding retail merchant base. This individual will specialize in detecting anomalous processing behavior across merchant types leveraging deep analytical expertise to recognize when transaction patterns deviate from expected norms within the retail ecosystem.

What You Will Do:

• Monitor fraud queues to identify bad actors and mitigate risk to protect Toasts retail and restaurant merchant portfolio.
• Conduct detailed investigations using internal tools to detect fraudulent or anomalous activity by merchant category.
• Evaluate merchant-level processing metrics (e.g. average ticket size transaction frequency refund ratios) against expected baselines by business type.
• Partner closely with Data Product and Risk Engineering teams to define and refine anomaly detection parameters by merchant vertical.
• Review chargeback data and dispute trends to identify emerging retail fraud typologies.
• Provide operational insights and recommendations that inform merchant underwriting ongoing monitoring and policy development.
• Suggest and implement improvements to fraud SOPs and detection methodologies with a focus on the retail ecosystem.
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on retail merchant fraud indicators and typologies across card-present and card-not-present transactions.

Do You Have the Right Ingredients

• 6 years of experience in fraud operations or risk analytics managing large datasets to identify fraud patterns trends and anomaliespreferably in merchant acquiring facilitation or payment processing.
• Deep understanding of retail merchant behaviors and risk patterns (e.g. high-volume/low-ticket vs. low-volume/high-ticket businesses).
• Proven ability to identify anomalous retail trends interpret data contextually by merchant category and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Strong investigative and analytical mindset; data-driven and curious with a bias for root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with chargeback processes Visa/Mastercard rules and network-level fraud signals.
• Excellent problem-solving communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced evolving environment; able to operate independently and adapt quickly.
• Flexible for US/night shifts and weekend rotations.

Preferred: Proficiency in SQL and experience with Hex Snowflake Splunk or similar tools.

AI at Toast

At Toast one of our company values is that were hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at Equity and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredientwhen they thrive we restaurant industry is one of the most diverse and we embrace that diversity with authenticity inclusivity respect and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally check out: today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process please contact .

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