Senior Manager, First Party Fraud Analytics - Business Banking

BMO; Toronto; Presencial; CAD 147.000 - 300.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Accident and life insurance

Retirement savings plans

Descripción de la vacante

BMO Financial Group seeks a Senior Manager to advance its First Party Fraud analytics capabilities. You will lead data-driven strategies to identify, measure, and mitigate fraud risk while balancing customer experience and growth.

You will leverage advanced analytics, ML, and behavioral insights to strengthen detection, loss attribution, and real-time risk decisioning, influencing enterprise fraud management and strategy across functions.

Formación

• Advanced expertise in fraud analytics, statistical analysis, ML, and predictive modeling.
• Strong knowledge of first party fraud risk management for lending products.
• Experience with banking products within a fraud scope and score vendors.
• Hands-on skills with SQL, Python, Power BI, Dataiku, SAS.

Responsabilidades

• Develop risk-based rules to identify FPF behaviors and misrepresentation.
• Optimize risk-based rules, triggers, and alerts for FPF detection.
• Generate alerts for business banking products to track delinquency.
• Assess score effectiveness and ingest data into models.
• Collaborate with risk engines, vendors, and fraud strategy teams.
• Build dashboards with relevant fraud metrics.
• Communicate complex analytics to executives and non-technical audiences.

Conocimientos

Fraud analytics

Machine learning

Data visualization

Communication

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field

Herramientas

SQL

Python

PowerBI

Dataiku

SAS

Descripción del empleo

Application Deadline:

11/15/2026

Address:

100 King Street West

Job Family Group:

Data Analytics & Reporting

We are seeking a senior analytical leader to advance BMO’s First Party Fraud (FPF) analytics capabilities. This role is accountable for executing data-driven strategies that proactively identify, measure, and mitigate first party fraud risk while balancing customer experience, portfolio performance, and business growth objectives. Working closely with Technology, Data & Analytics, Risk, and Business stakeholders, the Senior Manager will leverage advanced analytics, machine learning, and behavioral insights to strengthen fraud detection, improve loss attribution, and support real-time risk decisioning.

As Enterprise Fraud Management (EFM) continues to evolve its typology-based approach to First Party Fraud, this leader will play a critical role in building and enhancing a framework that distinguishes fraud from traditional credit risk, enabling more effective controls, stronger detection capabilities, and improved fraud loss management. Operating at an enterprise level, the Senior Manager will influence fraud analytical strategies, drive innovation, and serve as a trusted advisor on emerging fraud trends, analytics best practices, and the application of data-driven insights to protect the bank and its customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop risk‑based rules to identify FPF behaviors, including misrepresentation, synthetic identities, bust‑outs, stolen IDs onboarding and post‑origination fraud.
• Optimize risk-based rules, triggers, and alerting capabilities to identify first party fraud behaviors.
• Generate alerts for business banking products to track delinquency, account monitoring
• Assess score effectiveness via Proof of Concept to ingest data into models
• Work with score vendor (TransUnion, Equifax) and risk engines
• Develop early warning indicators and monitoring tools to detect emerging fraud patterns and portfolio shifts.
• Build dashboards with relevant metrics
• Evaluate rule effectiveness through performance metrics, loss analysis, and ongoing testing.
• Partner with Fraud Strategy, Investigations, and Operations teams to ensure alerting frameworks drive actionable and prioritized investigations.
• Use advanced analytics, data mining, and behavioral insights to identify new first‑party fraud typologies and translate insights into actionable rules.
• Apply advanced analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling, and data mining techniques to uncover new fraud risks and behavioral patterns.
• Design and scale predictive models and analytical solutions that improve fraud detection and support smarter business decisions.
• Conduct large-scale analysis across diverse data sources to identify trends, opportunities, and emerging threats.
• Leverage big data tools and modern analytics platforms to enhance fraud monitoring and decisioning capabilities.
• Collaborate with product, risk, technology, and business teams to support strategic decision-making, business planning, and future roadmap development.
• Communicate complex analytical concepts and findings to executive and non-technical audiences in a clear and compelling manner.
• Influence enterprise fraud management strategies through thought leadership, innovation, and data-driven recommendations.
• Build strong partnerships across the organization to drive alignment and achieve business objectives.

Qualifications:

Technical & Analytical Expertise

• Advanced expertise in fraud analytics, statistical analysis, machine learning, and predictive modeling.
• Strong knowledge of first party fraud risk management and fraud detection methodologies, related to lending products.
• Expert-level understanding of:
  • Mathematics, statistics, and operations research
  • Machine learning and deep learning techniques
  • Data wrangling, preprocessing, and feature engineering
  • Big data environments and analytical platforms
  • Data visualization and storytelling
  • Model governance, ethics, bias, and responsible AI
• Experience developing fraud rules, alerts, and risk monitoring frameworks.
• Proficiency with data and analytics tools such as SQL, Python, PowerBI, Dataiku, or comparable platforms.

Leadership & Business Skills

• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity and drive enterprise-wide outcomes.
• Demonstrated success building partnerships across multiple functions and levels of the organization.
• Strong collaboration, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing analytics teams.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• Typically 7–10+ years of relevant experience in fraud analytics, risk analytics, data science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior analytical banking experience is an asset.
• Experience with banking products within a fraud scope and various risk engines with a key focus on onboarding
• Hands on skills with SQL, Power BI, Python, Dataiku, SAS
• Prior experience with business banking strategies and products.
• Prior experience with score vendors (TransUnion, Equifax)
• Technical leader and thought partner with demonstrated success influencing strategy and driving transformational change.

Salary** :**

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

Pay Type:

Salaried

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit:https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

About Us

At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

To find out more visit us at:https://jobs.bmo.com/ca/en

BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.