Analyst, Fraud Strategy

About the position

As a Fraud Analyst, you will play a critical role in protecting the business from fraud losses while enabling sustainable growth. You will leverage data, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to design fraud prevention strategies, build solutions, and deliver actionable insights that drive impact.

Responsibilities

  • Assess fraud risks, evaluate controls, and identify gaps to help prioritize fraud mitigation projects.
  • Develop and implement fraud detection rules using segmentation, predictive models, hypothesis testing, and other analytical methods.
  • Investigate and analyze the latest fraud trends, designing proactive strategies to address them.
  • Own and manage key processes to reduce fraud losses, including real-time monitoring, alerting, and performance tracking.
  • Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Technology, Product, Marketing, Logistics, Legal, PR, Security, and other teams to leverage both company and third-party data.
  • Design and execute A/B tests to measure the effectiveness of fraud prevention strategies.
  • Conduct ad-hoc analyses, clearly communicate results, and present actionable insights to both senior management and technical/non-technical stakeholders.
  • Independently manage small to medium-sized projects, while supporting larger initiatives with cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative discipline (or equivalent work experience).
  • 3–5 years of experience in fraud, risk, payments, analytics, or statistical roles.
  • Prior exposure to statistics and machine learning modeling techniques through coursework or professional experience.
  • Proficiency in SQL and experience with R or Python for data analysis and statistical modeling.
  • Hands-on experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Excel.
  • Experience automating reporting and building monitoring dashboards.
  • Knowledge of fraud vectors, tools, strategies, and infrastructure in high-volume digital environments.
  • Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills with sharp attention to detail.
  • High level of inquisitiveness, initiative, and critical thinking.
  • Proven ability to translate analysis into implementable strategies and rules.
  • Strong project management skills, including cost-benefit assessment, prioritization, documentation, and follow-through.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to convey findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in a digital marketplace or platform environment with high transaction volumes.
  • Familiarity with advanced fraud detection systems, real-time monitoring frameworks, or machine learning approaches.
  • Strong track record of effectively presenting insights to senior management and executive stakeholders.

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K.
  • Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.
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