Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst

• Own and support fraud detection and prevention strategies across the fraud lifecycle
• Manage and optimize the fraud rules platform, including creating new rules, refining existing rules, testing changes, validating outputs, and monitoring performance
• Analyze fraud detection results to identify false positive and false negative trends and recommend strategy changes
• Identify and respond to new and emerging fraud trends, attack patterns, and typologies
• Conduct root cause analysis of fraud events, losses, rule misses, and control failures
• Use fraud tools, analytics, reporting, and available data sources to identify suspicious activity and support strategy optimization
• Help build and mature fraud capabilities, including process development, rules governance, documentation standards, and performance monitoring practices
• Partner with risk, operations, compliance, legal, technology, product, and customer-facing teams
• Work with internal technology teams and third-party providers to enhance fraud systems, rules management, analytics, reporting, and detection tools
• Monitor fraud trends and KPIs and communicate findings, risks, and opportunities to leadership and business partners
• Prepare documentation, analyses, summaries, and presentations related to fraud trends, rule changes, strategy performance, and control recommendations
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, controls, reporting, and fraud decision strategies
• Support urgent or high-priority fraud issues requiring timely analysis, strategy adjustments, and cross-functional coordination
• Protect confidential information and properly handle sensitive data
• Demonstrate Ascensus’ I-Client service philosophy and Core Values
• Support additional projects and responsibilities as needed

• 3–7 years of progressive experience in fraud strategy, fraud investigations, financial crimes, or financial services risk management
• Experience in fraud and/or financial crime roles within banking, financial services, fintech, payments, retirement services, wealth services, or other highly regulated environments
• Experience creating, managing, tuning, or optimizing fraud rules and decision strategies within a fraud platform or rules-based environment
• Experience analyzing fraud rule performance and using data to assess outcomes, validate results, identify optimization opportunities, and improve strategy effectiveness
• Strong knowledge of fraud typologies and fraud risk management practices across identity fraud, account takeover, social engineering, payment fraud, mule activity, first‑party fraud, and organized fraud schemes
• Proven ability to identify emerging fraud patterns and translate findings into actionable recommendations, control enhancements, and long-term strategy improvements
• Experience working across fraud systems, rules management, fraud analytics and optimization, and fraud risk strategy
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and manage multiple priorities
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Proven ability to identify process improvement opportunities and convert insights into practical solutions
• Familiarity with fraud reporting, dashboarding, trend monitoring, or KPI/KRI development

Demonstrates expertise in fraud detection and prevention strategies, with a strong focus on analyzing fraud trends, optimizing fraud rules, and enhancing fraud capabilities. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement effective fraud management practices and communicate insights to leadership.

• Fraud Strategy Development
• Fraud Rule Management
• Fraud Analytics and Optimization
• Fraud Risk Management
• Data Analysis and Reporting

• Fraud Detection
• Fraud Rule Optimization
• Data Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
• Fraud Typologies Knowledge
• Fraud Risk Management Practices
• KPI Development
• Fraud Reporting
• Fraud Systems Management
• Financial Crimes Investigation

• Analytical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Problem‑Solving
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication

• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Payments
• Retirement Services
• Wealth Services
• Regulated Environments
• Fraud Prevention
• Fraud Detection Strategies
• Compliance
• Risk Management

• Fraud Tools
• Analytics Platforms
• Reporting Tools
• Fraud Rules Platform
• Dashboarding Tools