Data Analyst - Fraud

Meridianpay; New York (NY); Remote; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Meridianpay is looking for a Data Analyst specializing in fraud prevention to enhance their financial services. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in data analytics, coupled with experience in combating fraud and optimizing conversion rates. This role offers competitive compensation, including unlimited vacation and equity options.

Benefits

Unlimited Vacation

Work From Home

Equity

Qualifications

• 3+ years of fraud prevention experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record of tackling payment fraud.
• Comfortable using AI tools for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve fraud prevention.
• Design rules and scoring logic for fraud detection.
• Run analyses to examine fraud patterns.

Skills

Data fluency

Fraud prevention

SQL

Applied statistics

Understanding of fraud schemes

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Join to apply for the Data Analyst - Fraud role at Meridian

Join to apply for the Data Analyst - Fraud role at Meridian

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Job Description:

At Meridian, we are on a mission to make low-cost, instant financial services and payments globally consistent for everyone.

Job Description:

At Meridian, we are on a mission to make low-cost, instant financial services and payments globally consistent for everyone.

We're working together to create the first global money network, linking together a worldwide collection of wallets and accounts as the foundation for a new payments network.

We are seeking a Fraud & Growth Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate has strong experience in data analytics and and proven excellence with tackling payment fraud while optimizing conversion in an online environment.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Business, Product and Engineering teams to ever-improve our fraud prevention and user conversion efforts
• Research and propose new ideas, improvements, and features based on client needs and leveraging the latest tools available
• Design Rules and Scoring logic with rigorous backtesting
• Establish benchmarks and reporting with a focus on continuous, iterative improvement
• Become highly competent at leveraging the fraud prevention platforms used by Meridian
• Work with external parties to ensure maximum value from their systems
• Support QA and product testing
• Run reports and queries to examine fraud patterns and enhance performance
• Creation and monitoring of rules and setup of alert systems
• Produce graphical reports for internal and external parties
• Comfortable using AI (GPT) to better analyze rule efficacy and overall patterns within the data
• Design an efficient process for reviewing rules, making iterative changes, with a goal of lowering fraud and minimizing false positives
  
  

Qualifications:

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, ideally a startup
• Fraud prevention experience (3+ years)
• A proven track record of combating fraud attacks
• Data fluency, including high comfort with SQL
• Strong grasp of applied statistics (e.g., hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, regression analysis) to support fraud model validation and rule performance analysis
• US payments experience with domain knowledge around ACH Reversals
• Experience operationalizing systems through the implementation of robust processes
• Experience creating presentations to illustrate findings within large data sets
• Understanding of various fraud schemes, including - account takeover, friendly fraud, and synthetic identity fraud
• Comfortable using AI (GPT) to better analyze rule efficacy and overall patterns within the data
• Startup mindset: high ownership, bias to action, low ego
  
  

Bonus Requirements:

• BSA and/or AML know-how
• Knowledge around CTF, AML, OFAC and other relevant legal & regulatory frameworks
• Experience working on projects involving international payments such as P2P remittances
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
  
  

Requirements:

• Working alignment with US East Coast
• Full-time
• Remote
  
  

Benefits:

• Unlimited Vacation
• Work From Home
• Equity

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Meridian by 2x

Get notified about new Data Analyst jobs in New York, NY.

New York, NY $75,000.00-$85,000.00 2 days ago

Freelance Data Analyst (Python) - AI Trainer

New York, NY $84,150.00-$99,000.00 8 hours ago

New York, NY $160,000.00-$210,000.00 6 months ago

New York, NY $54,910.00-$75,915.00 1 week ago

Analyst Data Analytics - US Based Remote

Remote Data Migration Analyst - $60-$75k (MS Suite, Excel)

New York, NY $60,000.00-$75,000.00 2 weeks ago

New York, NY $55,100.00-$99,000.00 15 hours ago

New York, NY $65,000.00-$75,000.00 1 week ago

New York, NY $85,000.00-$100,000.00 3 days ago

Salesforce Business Intelligence Analyst

New York, NY $100,000.00-$120,000.00 4 days ago

Manhattan, NY $110,000.00-$160,000.00 1 week ago

United States $157,000.00-$223,000.00 2 weeks ago

REMOTE Data Migration Specialist - $60k-$75k (SQL, Excel, CRMs)

New York, NY $60,000.00-$75,000.00 2 weeks ago

Oracle Hyperion Developer -(Fulltime) 100% Remote

New York City Metropolitan Area 2 weeks ago

Jersey City, NJ $91,000.00-$125,400.00 2 weeks ago

New York, NY $115,450.00-$140,000.00 1 month ago

New York, NY $65,000.00-$75,000.00 1 week ago

New York, NY $63,750.00-$75,000.00 1 week ago

New York City Metropolitan Area $90,000.00-$120,000.00 1 week ago

New York, NY $85,000.00-$100,000.00 3 days ago

Customer Success Analyst - Contract (6 months)

Business Systems Analyst with P&C Domain- Remote

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.