Fraud Analytics and Innovation Senior Leader

Job Description

Job Description: At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

This job is responsible for managing a group of team leaders and employees who develop strategies and drive analytics to understand portfolio risk, increase profitability, and optimize operational performance. Key responsibilities include setting strategic priorities for the team, identifying trends, and leading efforts to maximize risk versus return for the business unit. Job expectations include using data and analytics to solve complex problems, coaching and developing employees, and partnering across technology, product, and risk leadership to drive performance.

The Emerging Risk Fraud Strategies is looking for an experienced analytical leader to join our team as a strategies lead for our digital and money movement portfolios. This is an exciting opportunity given the constantly evolving nature of digital adoption and attacks in marketplace as well as in money movement.

As a Fraud Strategy Manager with the Client Protection organization, you will capitalize on technical abilities and strategic thinking to solve business challenges and seek opportunities for improvement. You will join a team of fraud professionals who are dedicated to stopping criminals and protecting customers. In the role you will spend time analyzing difficult problems as we try to stay one step ahead of the fraudsters.

You will develop complex defenses designed to minimize the impact to good customers while maximizing fraud loss avoidance. You will work across multiple partner organizations and represent our team as a subject matter expert. We are looking for someone with strong communication skills, sound business judgement, results oriented with a track record of thriving in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. In this role, you will be expected to look through significant quantities of data to identify and stop fraud.

Responsibilities will include fraud loss plan ownership, strategy development, building out a controls culture, and evaluating various internally developed and vendor provided machine learning tools to most effectively maximize client experience while managing fraud.

• Establishes department-wide strategies and oversees portfolio trend analysis, forecasting, and risk/control performance
• Leads innovation by identifying and championing large scale initiatives that improve the risk management, profitability, and control oversight of risks for their business unit(s)
• Identifies business trends based on economic and portfolio conditions and communicates findings to senior management
• Coaches employees on best practices for structuring complex problems, performing analysis, and communicating the results and implications of their work
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships with peers and counterparts across product, technology, and business control functions
• Development of new fraud strategies using statistical and analytical techniques and other quantitative methods. Goal will be to identify and mitigate new and emerging fraud threats in money movement tools channels.
• Identifying new sources of data (internal or vendor-provided) that can enrich our existing fraud detection processes, be added to our decision…