Fraud Analyst

Slope; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Slope is seeking a Fraud Analyst to support fraud mitigation through analytic tools, trend recognition, and cross-functional collaboration. You will identify and prevent fraud in customer applications and provider accounts, using risk scores, data analysis, and AI-assisted summaries to enhance decision-making.

The role emphasizes remote work with teams across time zones, requiring strong investigative skills, attention to detail, and experience in banking or fintech fraud contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in banking or fintech, investigative/analytical.
• Proficiency with research across systems and reporting tools.
• Experience with fraud or risk analysis.
• Familiarity with Slack, MacOS and GSuite.

Responsibilities

• Perform manual reviews and analysis of new account applications and existing customer/provider accounts, identifying and preventing potential fraud.
• Perform alert triage utilizing risk scores and trend analysis in the decisioning of alerts.
• Manage case management for large scale fraud cases.
• Assist Leadership in ongoing identification of high-risk behaviors of the current customer base by performing customer monitoring, assessing transactional activity, and tracking customer behavior to ensure it aligns with their expected behavior and to identify fraud among existing customer base.
• Aggregate and analyze internal data to understand performance of fraud decisioning, finding insights from internal data sets to improve fraud mitigation strategies and customer evaluation rules to curb new fraud trends and patterns.
• Work closely with Customer Service, Operations and Compliance teams to optimize policies and controls to improve monitoring and due diligence of transactions, consumers and providers.
• Work closely with other departments in the identification, management and communication of fraud and ID Theft cases.
• Leveraging AI tools to improve review efficiency and quality, including AI-generated risk summaries, memo drafting support, and automated alert triage to enhance decision-making and workflow throughput.
• Assist with various fraud related duties as needed.

Skills

Detail-oriented

Analytical

Data analysis

Investigative mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Slack

MacOS

GSuite

Job description

Reporting to the Compliance Lead, the Fraud Analyst will provide fraud mitigation support through the utilization of analytic tools for fraudulent trend recognition, identifying and preventing potential fraud on customer applications and providers. The Fraud Analyst will work closely with the Compliance Lead to detect and mitigate new fraud trends, while aligning with outside departments to optimize the fraud controls and communication in place. The utilization of data & trend identification techniques will be key in the decision-making aspects of the position.

What You'll Do

• Perform manual reviews and analysis of new account applications and existing customer/provider accounts, identifying and preventing potential fraud
• Perform alert triage utilizing risk scores and trend analysis in the decisioning of alerts
• Manage case management for large scale fraud cases
• Assist Leadership in ongoing identification of high-risk behaviors of the current customer base by performing customer monitoring, assessing transactional activity, and tracking customer behavior to ensure it aligns with their expected behavior and to identify fraud among existing customer base
• Aggregate and analyze internal data to understand performance of fraud decisioning, finding insights from internal data sets to improve fraud mitigation strategies and customer evaluation rules to curb new fraud trends and patterns
• Work closely with Customer Service, Operations and Compliance teams to optimize policies and controls to improve monitoring and due diligence of transactions, consumers and providers
• Work closely with other departments in the identification, management and communication of fraud and ID Theft cases
• Leveraging AI tools to improve review efficiency and quality, including AI-generated risk summaries, memo drafting support, and automated alert triage to enhance decision-making and workflow throughput
• Assist with various fraud related duties as needed
• Perform back-office functions related to research and resolution of fraudulent activity and applicable reporting
• Support in ongoing bank audits, monitoring and testing, and risk assessments as applicable
• Monitoring industry trends relative to money laundering or fraud schemes including detection and reporting of suspicious activity
• Work effectively in a fully remote environment with teams spanning multiple time-zones

About You

• Bachelor's degree in related field; or equivalent job experience
• 3+ years prior banking or Fintech experience, preferably in an investigative and analytical role or exposed to fraud-related behavior in Consumer and/or Business segments
• Proficiency in online and internal application research across applicable systems and reporting and analytical tools
• An innovative and creative mind looking to suggest new solutions to old problems
• Detail-oriented, highly analytical and comfortable digging into data
• Experience/familiarity with Slack, Apple MacOS and GSuite

Nice To Have

• CAMS, CFCS, or CFE certification a plus