Lead Fraud Risk Data Analyst

permanent
Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

  • Develop new data driven rules that optimize decisioning performance between member experience and fraud prevention.
  • Develop data insights and rules to help understand customers’ banking behavior and preferences to drive first party fraud controls and strategy for payment and lending.
  • Develop personalized segmentations and micro-segmentation to identify customers based on their fraud risk, banking behaviorals, and value.
  • Work with external fraud prevention vendors to optimize their performance and assist in maintaining, design and implementation of existing and new fraud detection tools.
  • Aggregate and analyze internal and external risk datasets to understand performance of fraud decisioning and granular performance of multiple decision methods.
  • Find insights from risk data sets to improve fraud strategies and rules.
  • Participate in regular review of activities involving different fraud topologies.
  • Lead fraud/risk investigations for both simple and complex cases to successful conclusions and mark false positives and false negative cases.
  • Complete investigation of customers and transactions flagged by the Bank's automated monitoring system(s), manual reports, and/or referrals.
  • Define, implement, and manage rule rationalization and governance process.

Experience

  • 10+ years of fraud or risk experience focused on the risk strategy and risk analytics in financial services, insurance, and healthcare industries. FinTech or start-up experience is a plus.
  • 8+ years of data analytics experience with hands-on SQL and python coding is a plus.
  • 3+ years of experience in Tableau (and other BI tools).
  • 3+ years of experience analyzing data with statistical approaches with python.
  • 1+ years of hands-on use of AWS is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of financial products, including fraud management in lending products, ACH, RDC, P2P, and deposit accounts.
  • Knowledge of fraud management systems such as Sentilink, iOvation, Lexisnexis, etc.
  • Deep understanding of the financial fraud space.
  • Experience creating and optimizing fraud prevention rules and strategies.
  • Coaching and mentoring other analysts.
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management, working with engineers, product, operations, and data science.

Salary and Perks

Pay range: $140K - $190K

  • Eligible for a bonus, equity, and competitive benefits.

About Varo Bank

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission driven and FDIC insured.

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission driven and FDIC insured.

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