Business Analyst, Payments and Fraud

Spokeo Inc.; Pasadena (CA); Sur place; USD 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus program

Equity plans

401K

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Unlimited PTO

Résumé du poste

Spokeo is seeking a highly analytical Business Analyst, Payments & Fraud, to drive performance, insight, and continuous improvement across payments and fraud functions. You will support performance monitoring, scalable reporting, and data-driven optimization initiatives, reporting to the SVP of Operations.

You will develop KPIs, write SQL queries, create dashboards in Tableau, and provide insights to improve fraud detection and revenue protection in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a business/analytic field.
• 2+ years of experience in business analytics, preferably payments/fraud.
• Strong SQL expertise with large datasets.
• Experience creating dashboards in Tableau.
• Familiarity with Cybersource Decision Manager or similar tools.

Responsabilités

• Support payments and fraud KPIs, reporting, and post-launch analysis of new features.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to identify trends and opportunities.
• Translate data into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Build and maintain dashboards to monitor fraud trends and payment health.
• Collaborate across teams to inform decisions and optimization.

Connaissances

SQL

Tableau

Data analytics

Payments & fraud domain

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field

Outils

Cybersource Decision Manager

Description du poste

About Spokeo

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

About Spokeo

Join our mission to make the world more transparent with data.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research criminal investigation subjects, and more.

Founded in 2006, we have grown to a company of nearly 200 dedicated employees, with flexible work locations and an average tenure of 5.3 years. Find out why we were named a "Best Company" by Comparably for Women, Compensation, Happiest Employees, Company Perks & Benefits, and Work-Life Balance, as well as "Best CEO" for co-founder Harrison Tang.

About This Opportunity

Spokeo is seeking a highly analytical, business-minded Business Analyst, Payments & Fraud, to drive performance, insight, and continuous improvement across our payments and fraud function. This role is a critical addition to a lean and growing team and reports directly to the SVP of Operations. You will support the Payments & Fraud organization by bringing deeper technical analytics expertise to strengthen performance monitoring, scalable reporting, and data-driven optimization initiatives.

What You'll Do

Payments & Fraud Analytics

• Support and enhance the development of payments and fraud KPIs, performance reporting, and post-launch analysis of new payment features and experiments
• Write and optimize SQL queries to uncover trends, anomalies, and revenue opportunities
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for business leaders
• Build and maintain dashboards to monitor fraud trends, payment declines, and overall payment health
  

Fraud Strategy & Decisioning Support

• Provide analytical support to improve fraud detection and decision workflows
• Evaluate fraud rule performance, monitor alerts, and recommend data-driven improvements
• Conduct fraud trend analysis and recommend mitigation strategies
  

Payment Optimization & Revenue Protection

• Analyze payment decline drivers and develop decline salvage and optimization opportunities
• Support initiatives related to account updater, retry strategies and processor performance
• Identify opportunities to reduce operational costs and losses while improving authorization rates
  

Team Support & Collaboration

• Communicate performance insights, root cause analysis, and mitigation strategies across teams
• Serve as the analytics and reporting extension of the Payments & Fraud team, delivering timely insights that inform decision-making, performance optimization, and strategic initiatives
  

Who You Are

• Highly analytical, meticulous, and proactive, with strong attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to work in a fast-moving, lean operational environment
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in business analytics, preferably within payments and fraud
• Strong SQL expertise and experience working with large, complex datasets
• Proven ability to deliver business insights and performance-driven recommendations
• Experience building dashboards and reporting in Tableau
• Familiarity with card-not-present (CNP) subscription-based payments is preferred
• Prior experience with Cybersource Decision Manager or similar fraud decisioning tools preferred

Working at Spokeo

Spokeo offers a bonus program, equity plans, and 401K. Once a year, we do a discretionary, merit-based salary increase. Additional benefits include 100% medical/dental/vision coverage and unlimited employee PTO.

Spokeo extends written offers to candidates who successfully complete their selection process. Spokeo's offers include a base salary, participation in a company bonus program, stock options, and comprehensive benefits. A final offer will depend on several factors, including, but not limited to, marketplace competition, job leveling, the candidate’s experience, skills, etc.

Privacy Notice for Candidates: https://www.spokeo.com/recruiting-policy

Spokeo is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status. Spokeo fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best products, and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

Recruiters or staffing agencies: Spokeo is not obligated to compensate any external recruiter or search firm that presents a candidate or their resume or profile to a Spokeo employee without 1) a current, fully executed agreement on file, and 2) being assigned to the open position (as a search) via our applicant tracking solution.

Spokeo is a people search engine that helps over 18 million monthly visitors reconnect with friends, reunite with families, and protect against fraud. Additionally, our 12 billion records and over 250 million unique profiles help business professionals locate people and assets, research criminal investigation subjects, and more.