Payments Fraud Lead.

AIB; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market pension scheme

Healthcare scheme

Variable pay

Employee assistance programme

Family leave options

Two volunteer days per year

Job summary

AIB is seeking a Payments Fraud Lead in Dublin to advance prevention, detection, and control optimisation of payment fraud across use cases. The role combines analytical rigor with strategic influence, partnering with fraud operations, risk, and technology teams.

You will analyse trends, develop rules and interventions, and drive improvements in thresholds, KPIs, and reporting to strengthen our fraud controls. 3 days a week in Central Park, Dublin 18, with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in fraud, financial crime, risk analytics, decisioning, or business analysis within banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of payment fraud typologies, transaction monitoring, account takeover, mule activity, and fraud decisioning initiatives.
• Experience working with fraud detection, analytics, or decisioning platforms such as Featurespace or similar systems, including rule development, scenario implementation, tuning, or optimisation.
• Strong data analysis capability with hands-on experience using SQL and large datasets, including querying, manipulating, and analysing complex data to identify fraud patterns, trends, and root causes.
• Ability to define structured, data-driven solutions and to work effectively in fast-paced delivery environments with multiple dependencies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across fraud, operations, and related functions.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business, fraud-risk, regulatory, and operational requirements for payment fraud detection and prevention initiatives.
• Apply fraud domain knowledge to review and enhance existing payment anomaly detection, fraud rules, and machine learning models.
• Work on payment fraud use cases such as transaction monitoring, fraud prevention strategies, and investigation workflows to analyse trends and root causes using data insights.
• Support the design of controls, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms for payment fraud operations and decisioning.
• Collaborate with fraud operations, compliance, risk, technology, engineering, product, and data teams to implement and improve fraud detection solutions.
• Contribute to threshold optimisation, intervention design, and continuous improvement of payment fraud controls.

Skills

SQL

Fraud analytics

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisioning

Tools

Featurespace

Job description

At AIB, our values guide how we work and how we support each other. We’re looking for someone who puts Customer First, takes initiative and Owns the Outcome, and is always looking for ways to Eliminate Complexity. You’ll treat colleagues and customers with fairness and Show Respect, and you’ll thrive in a culture built on collaboration where we Be One Team to deliver meaningful impact.

Payments Fraud Lead, Dublin

Location/Office Policy

Central Park, Dublin 18 - 3 days per week in office

• Would you like to play a leading role in a team whose ambition is to become a world class fraud function, exceptional at developing talent and turning information into insights?
• Do you enjoy collaborating with cross functional teams and influencing business direction with data-backed evidence?
• Do you activelyseek opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement?

What Is The Role

We are looking for a highly analytical and technically capable Payments Fraud Lead to support and enhance payment fraud decisioning within AIB. This role will focus on fraud prevention, detection, and control optimisation across payment fraud use cases, including transaction monitoring, analytics-driven interventions, and model/rule enhancement.

Key Accountabilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business, fraud-risk, regulatory, and operational requirements for payment fraud detection and prevention initiatives.
• Apply fraud domain knowledge to review and enhance existing payment anomaly detection, fraud rules, and machine learning models.
• Work on payment fraud use cases such as transaction monitoring, fraud prevention strategies, and investigation workflows to analyse trends and root causes using data insights.
• Support the design of controls, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms for payment fraud operations and decisioning.
• Collaborate with fraud operations, compliance, risk, technology, engineering, product, and data teams to implement and improve fraud detection solutions.
• Contribute to threshold optimisation, intervention design, and continuous improvement of payment fraud controls.

What You Will Bring

• 5–8 years’ experience in fraud, financial crime, risk analytics, decisioning, or business analysis within banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of payment fraud typologies, transaction monitoring, account takeover, mule activity, and fraud decisioning initiatives.
• Experience working with fraud detection, analytics, or decisioning platforms such as Featurespace or similar systems, including rule development, scenario implementation, tuning, or optimisation.
• Strong data analysis capability with hands‑on experience using SQL and large datasets, including querying, manipulating, and analysing complex data to identify fraud patterns, trends, and root causes
• Ability to define structured, data-driven solutions and to work effectively in fast‑paced delivery environments with multiple dependencies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across fraud, operations, and related functions.

Why Work For AIB

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Key Capabilities

• Drives Progress
• Develops & Empowers
• Customer First
• Data Analysis
• Risk Analysis
• Risk Modelling & Scenario Analysis

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail]

Disclaimer

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline: Monday 3rd August 2026