Fraud Analytics Lead — New Products (Hybrid)

Remitly Canada Operations, Inc.; Burnaby; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Four weeks vacation

Health Benefits

Mental Health & Family FormingBenefits

RRSP plan with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Life Insurance & Disability

Continuing education

Job summary

Remitly Canada Operations, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Analyst, Fraud (New Products) to own fraud analytics for the Remitly Global Card and Store of Value products. You will build KPIs, risk frameworks, and prescriptive recommendations as these products launch and scale.

You will partner with product, engineering, and processing teams to design effective controls, conduct experiments, and apply advanced analytics to reduce fraud while preserving a smooth customer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics or similar role.
• Experience in fraud, risk, trust & safety, fintech, or adversarial analytics.
• Experience with card issuing, debit, prepaid, or credit cards, digital wallets, or neobank products is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, engineering, economics, or another quantitative field (or equivalent additional experience).
• Advanced SQL proficiency, including building performant, well-documented pipelines, plus strong Python or R skills for data analysis is a plus.
• Expertise with statistical concepts (e.g., A/B testing, causal inference, probability theory, forecasting, classification) and how they apply in real-world fraud or risk contexts.

Responsibilities

• Own fraud analytics for the Remitly Global Card and Store of Value products, and develop long-term insights, KPIs, and prescriptive recommendations that shape fraud prevention strategy as these products launch and scale.
• Become an expert on Remitly's risk management systems, card and wallet product flows, and the fraud patterns unique to these products.
• Build frameworks, grounded in unit economics, that show how changes to fraud controls affect losses, approval rates, customer friction, activation, and growth.
• Lead the development of durable Key Results with business partners.
• Partner with issuing processors and internal teams to design and tune real-time authorization, transaction monitoring, and account-level controls.
• Formulate hypotheses, design and evaluate experiments, and apply prediction, classification, and causal methods where they fit.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python/R

Data storytelling

Independent worker

AI tooling

Mentoring

Fraud/risk domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

Remitly Canada Operations, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Analyst, Fraud (New Products) to own fraud analytics for the Remitly Global Card and Store of Value products. You will build KPIs, risk frameworks, and prescriptive recommendations as these products launch and scale.

You will partner with product, engineering, and processing teams to design effective controls, conduct experiments, and apply advanced analytics to reduce fraud while preserving a smooth customer experience.