Card Fraud Prevention Senior Analyst

Salary Ranges: 8500 - 10000 SGD Per Month RSUs

Card payments represent a large part of the funds moved to Wise daily and card fraud disputes are an inevitable part of that. Our Card Fraud team thus supports Wises mission in a very impactful area. We have an awesome operational team handling these Card Fraud disputes in four countries across the globe; a unified team that works very closely with our dedicated engineering and product teams.

As a Card Fraud Prevention Senior Analyst you get to support your teams operational success and bring your expertise to upscale the domain; driving detection and prevention focused initiatives with long-lasting impacts will be part of your daily work. 

Heres how youll be contributing to Card Disputes team: 

Reducing Card Fraud loss (Spend product costs):

• Analysing Card Fraud dispute trends independently querying databases and doing data deep dives
• Prioritising and delegating Card Fraud prevention workflows in line with our KPIs
• Card Fraud prevention rule creation: rule scope validation rule creation and monitoring post rule implementation
• Prioritising customer experience/impact from rule declines by writing rules with a high level of accuracy and quality that do not unnecessarily decline transactions causing a loss of revenue for Wise.
• Working closely with Product and Engineering teams to drive optimal customer experience from fraud declines and alerts
• Working closely with the Data science team on machine learning models
• Leading long term Card Fraud prevention projects contributing to the KRIs/KPIs/OKRs.
• Providing data and writing rules in relation to incidents and managing incidents if needed.
• Effectively communicate and explain Card Fraud prevention strategies to Wisers who are not on the fraud prevention team

Card Fraud Prevention and Risk Management

• Protect our Wise cardholders from unauthorised card usage scams and payment instrument and account takeover fraud.
• Spend fraud rule creation and optimisation to mitigate the impact of card fraud on Wise cardholders suffering monetary loss Spend fraud BPS (scheme compliance & fees) and unrecoverable fraud loss (product cost)
• Understand and implement machine learning scores within static fraud rules to improve rule precision and recall.
• Work with data science on the optimisation and periodical retraining of the internal card fraud machine learning model.
• Own longer term projects targeted at card fraud reduction.
• Engage Spend Product and Engineering teams to drive rule engine improvements with the focus of optimising the card fraud customer journey from rule declines to rule alerts and dispute submission.
• Staying up to date with fraud trends highlighted by the card schemes governmental organisations and the media.

Team Direction and Analytics Management

• Prioritise and delegate work for a small team of analysts effectively driving the team to focus on highest leverage activities. Plan structure and coordinate analyst work effectively responding appropriately to challenges as they arise.
• Ensure that card fraud prevention work is prioritised in line with our OKRs KPIs and overall strategy. 
• Deliver or materially contribute to the prevention of large scale card fraud waves or prevention projects and is good at helping others overcome blockers
• Lead projects and develop up to 1-2 analysts by coaching and supporting analysts in a manner that is aligned with their development needs and with the aim of increasing their impact

KPI & performance measurement management

• Managing and ensuring KPI and performance metrics accessibility to Teams
• Ensuring any required data is available to the Card Fraud Ops team - either by providing the data in an accessible manner or by driving engineering changes where necessary.
• Strong collaboration with Leadership on KPI (maintenance & building)
• Identifying the problematic areas based on KPI performance
• Identifying product issues and improvement areas (cross team)

Incident Management

• Providing data and relevant insights to all stakeholders for the purposes of incident management
• Able to identify card fraud prevention gaps and come up with strategies to mitigate risk and resolve the incident
• Able to perform in an incident manager role if needed
• Escalating risks sitting outside of the Card Fraud domain (or appetite) to external stakeholders

Qualifications :

About You: 

• Your verbal and written English skills are excellent. If you speak other languages then thats a bonus! 
• You have strong attention to detail punctuality and are comfortable taking initiatives. 
• You are good with routine but can also adapt and keep up with fast changes.
• You are able to work independently but also know how important good team-work is.
• You can make decisions in critical situations and have the ability to multitask.
• You have a genuine enthusiasm for the FinCrime industry. 
• You have experience with SQL or a similar coding language and have experience with Fincrime prevention strategy creation and management.

Your Analytical and Strategic Abilities

• Able to competently think through analytical tasks and fully understand the impact of card fraud rules on the spend product and on our customers.
• Deliver quality analysis that addresses the business problem.
• Comfortable with complexity and aware of key factors underlying a decision.
• Able to propose ideas autonomously to deflect card fraud waves
• Able to code both independently and in collaboration with other analysts and write legible code that is usable by others. 
• Able to test fraud rule conditions autonomously and troubleshoot code and risk engine related issues.
• Able to understand the interaction between metrics over multiple products/services across multiple teams and directs effort towards high leverage activities
• Comfortable learning new data analysis techniques and methods.

Intriguing questions to ask yourself

• What could I do to magnify the impact of the current detection strategies How do I stop more fraud with a similar prevention strategy
• What is lacking right now with our Tools that would increase the effectiveness of our prevention strategies without causing a similar increase in customer impact
• Where we are today versus where we want/need to be in 6 months/12 months etc (What Product/Scheme/Compliance changes will impact the Card Fraud Domain and potential impact on prevention strategies and how we stop Card Fraud)

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time