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Lead Risk Analyst, Payment Fraud
Job Description & How to Apply Below
- About the Opportunity
Lead the full lifecycle of financial risk strategy development and implementation—from identifying opportunities to designing, testing, launching, and monitoring post-production performance. - Detect, investigate, and track fraudulent or suspicious activities, including identifying and quantifying key trends impacting fraud and payment behaviors.
- Analyze both internal and external datasets to deliver detailed reports and root-cause analyses on fraud incidents and chargebacks.
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product managers to implement fraud prevention solutions that support business growth while maintaining strong risk controls.
- Serve as the primary point of contact with payment processors and vendors, leveraging strong communication skills to manage relationships, align on risk strategies, and navigate industry terminology.
- Experienced in handling transactions across multiple currencies, including USD, CAD, and others.
- About You:The ideal candidate is a reliable and resilient team player who combines strong business judgment, technical expertise, and advanced analytical skills to support Snaplli’s rapid growth.
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in a fraud-related role and 1 year within the payments industry.
- Experience working with multiple payment methods in multi-currency environments, preferably in e-commerce or similar industries.
- Demonstrated ability to investigate and detect fraudulent activity, with hands-on experience conducting transaction reviews and fraud case investigations.
- Strong background in data modeling (3+ years), including building fraud detection models, user behavior scoring systems, and transaction anomaly detection models. Experience with feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment is required.
- Experience integrating models into risk systems to support automated, model-driven fraud prevention processes.
- Proficiency with machine learning frameworks (Python or R using tools such as Sklearn, XGBoost, or LightGBM) and experience deploying models in production environments.
- Strong SQL skills (required) with the ability to independently query and analyze large datasets;
Python experience is a plus. - Previous experience in roles such as Fraud Analyst, Risk Analyst, Operations Specialist, Data Scientist, or Product Manager. A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, or a related analytical or technical discipline is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities, including the capacity to think from a fraudster’s perspective to anticipate and mitigate risks.
- Mandarin Chinese proficiency is considered an asset but is not required.
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