Lead Cybersecurity Analyst Payment Fraud Strategy

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About Us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

As a Lead Cybersecurity Analyst Payment Fraud Strategy you will help shape Targets enterprise approach to payment fraud risk. This role owns the strategic direction for the Payment Fraud Strategy Area helping Target maintain a future ready payment fraud defense that enables omni channel growth protects guest trust and supports smart fraud investment decisions.

This role is responsible for setting strategy aligning partners connecting work to measurable outcomes identifying risks and gaps and ensuring Theft Fraud & Abuse delivers measurable payment fraud results for the business.

About the role:

As a Lead Cybersecurity Analyst Payment Fraud Strategy you will:

• Own and evolve the Payment Fraud Strategy Area including the vision strategic priorities roadmap OKRs operating rhythms and executive level narrative
• Partner with execution owning teams to ensure fraud work across stores Circle Card and emerging payment experiences is aligned to the enterprise fraud strategy and measurable business outcomes
• Translate fraud trends business priorities guest experience considerations and risk signals into clear strategic direction for partners and leaders
• Create visibility into progress against payment fraud outcomes including fraud dollars as a percentage of sales fraud prevented manual review effectiveness model performance and false positive reduction
• Identify strategic gaps risks dependencies duplicative efforts and investment needs across the payment fraud ecosystem
• Align cross functional partners across Cybersecurity Payment Operations Product Technology Data Science Finance Stores Digital Legal Compliance and vendor teams
• Shape roadmap priorities and modernization decisions by connecting fraud trends business outcomes partner work and investment needs into a clear strategic direction
• Support executive communication by clearly articulating strategy progress tradeoffs risks and recommendations
• Ensure payment fraud strategy supports secure business growth low friction guest experiences profitable sales and protection of guest trust
• Maintain a forward looking view of emerging payment fraud risks including account takeover synthetic identity real time payments and refunds cross channel fraud scams agentic commerce and new payment experiences
• Partner with owning teams on fraud capability evaluations proof of concept learnings data opportunities and modernization themes to ensure they ladder back to enterprise strategy
• Build trusted relationships with business and technology partners helping teams understand fraud risk make informed tradeoffs and stay aligned to Targets broader payment fraud objectives

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 7 plus years of experience in cybersecurity fraud strategy payment fraud financial crimes risk management product risk or a related field
• Demonstrated understanding of fraud threats payment ecosystems chargebacks digital fraud identity fraud account takeover scams card fraud or cross channel fraud patterns
• Experience developing strategy aligning and influencing partners/roadmaps and connecting enterprise work to measurable outcomes
• Ability to analyze fraud trends performance metrics control effectiveness and operational outcomes to influence decisions
• Experience partnering with cross functional teams such as Cybersecurity AI Data Sciences Product Tech Finance Operations Legal Compliance or external vendors
• Strong communication storytelling written verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to lead down across and up to persuade negotiate and drive desired outcomes
• Strong problem solving skills sound judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity
• Ability to build trust with business partners while challenging assumptions and escalating risk when needed

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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