Financial Crime Analyst: Data-Driven Fraud & Analytics

Cuscal Limited; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Cuscal Limited in Brisbane is seeking a Financial Crimes Analyst to join our team and help shape the future of payments. You’ll analyse complex data to identify, prevent and respond to fraud and emerging financial crime threats across payment and digital banking channels.

Working in our Financial Crime Analytics & Advisory team, you’ll use Power BI, Databricks, SQL and Excel to identify trends, develop and optimise fraud detection rules, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational fraud or financial crime management.
• Strong analytical capability with experience working across large and complex data sets.
• Experience using fraud detection systems including writing or optimising fraud rules.
• Demonstrated ability to turn data into clear insights and recommendations.
• Advanced Power BI and Excel skills.
• Intermediate Databricks and SQL experience.
• Strong critical thinking, investigation and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analysing transactional, behavioural and intelligence data to identify fraud and emerging financial crime risks.
• Developing and optimising fraud detection rules across cards, digital wallets, real-time payments, PayTo, BPAY and Direct Entry.
• Conducting network analysis, merchant reviews and complex investigations.
• Using Power BI, Databricks, SQL and Excel to identify trends and provide actionable insights.
• Reviewing fraud controls and recommending improvements to strengthen detection capabilities.
• Monitoring fraud detection performance including detection rates and false positive ratios.
• Supporting the implementation and validation of new data sets, AI models and machine learning models.
• Providing insights on current fraud typologies and trends to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Escalating significant incidents, risks and emerging threats to management.
• Contributing to continuous improvement across fraud monitoring processes and operational outcomes

Skills

Data analytics

Power BI

Excel

SQL

Databricks

Fraud rule writing

Fraud detection

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

Power BI

Databricks

SQL

Job description

Cuscal Limited in Brisbane is seeking a Financial Crimes Analyst to join our team and help shape the future of payments. You’ll analyse complex data to identify, prevent and respond to fraud and emerging financial crime threats across payment and digital banking channels.

Working in our Financial Crime Analytics & Advisory team, you’ll use Power BI, Databricks, SQL and Excel to identify trends, develop and optimise fraud detection rules, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders.