Business Analytics Senior Analyst Assistance Vice President

This individual will translate emerging risk patterns into measurable signals and deploy analytic solutions that enhance enterprise protection controls. The role focuses on managing and executing fraud analytics and fraud detection strategies for Citi’s North American and global credit card and retail bank businesses.

• Design, develop, and optimize detection models addressing merchant impersonation, inauthentic entities, synthetic or coordinated activity, loyalty/rewards accrual and redemption anomalies, and promotion exploitation.
• Develop and refine both micro-level and macro-level portfolio-wide anomaly detection, linkages, and behavioral anomalies.
• Apply graph/network analytics to identify collusion or coordinated abuse patterns.
• Own and optimize fraud rules, risk scores, and model thresholds.
• Monitor performance and iterate based on emerging patterns.
• Translate intelligence into scalable detection logic.
• Provide quantitative recommendations to enhance controls and reduce exposure.
• Partner with Fraud Strategy, Fraud Policy, Intelligence, and Product Teams.
• Prioritize and provide a clear line of sight to the most critical work to partners and team members.
• Mentor and coach junior team members.
• The role primarily operates within an office environment, with occasional travel and extended on-site hours potentially required during project phases.
• Advanced Excel Skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree required in statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or other analytical or quantitative discipline.
• 3+ years experience in analytics and modeling or relevant area.
• Extensive experience working with:
  • Big Data environment with hands on coding experience within various traditional (SAS, SQL, etc.) and/or open source (i.e. Python, Impala, Hive, etc.) tools.
  • Traditional and advanced machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, Random Forests, etc.
  • Data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
• Excellent quantitative and analytic skills; ability to derive patterns, trends and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis.
• Ability to build effective presentations to communicate analytical findings to a wide array of audiences.
• Effective cross-functional project, resource, and stakeholder engagement and management, with ability to effectively drive collaboration across teams.
• Ability to make decisions independently with minimal guidance from management.

• Salary Range: $87,280.00 - $.
• Citi offers competitive employee benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs.
• Paid time off includes vacation, sick leave, and holidays.

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