Fraud Analytics Senior Analyst - Risk & Strategy

Citi; Town of New Castle (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a fraud analytics professional in Jacksonville, FL to drive analytics-based strategies for credit card and retail banking fraud. You will analyze data, develop detection rules, and partner with policy and operations to reduce losses.

The role emphasizes building risk-aware strategies, presenting findings to management, and delivering timely insights to mitigate evolving fraud threats.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required in statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or other analytical or quantitative discipline.
• 3+ years in relevant field.
• Experience working with: Big Data environment with hands on coding experience within various traditional (SAS, SQL, etc.) and/or open source (i.e. Python, Impala, Hive, etc.) tools.
• Traditional and advanced machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, Random Forests, etc.
• Data visualization tools, such as Tableau
• Excellent quantitative and analytic skills; ability to derive patterns, trends and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with ability to connect analytics to business impacts; comfortable presenting to peers and management.
• Extremely detail-oriented; intellectual curiosity
• Ability to multi-task and work against tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with baseline instructions/guidelines from management

Responsibilities

• Leverage data and advanced analytics to derive patterns, trends and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis.
• Ownership and management of fraud rules, scores, and detection strategies, Risk appetite execution, POS interdiction strategies and defect analysis.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide strategy recommendations based on data and trend analysis, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Build effective relationships within and outside the Fraud organization to help ensure successful and timely execution of key portfolio priorities.
• Leverage knowledge of information acquired to identify potential process gaps and opportunities for improving effectiveness of controls and governance processes.
• Generate and manage regular and ad-hoc reporting to enable effective monitoring and identification of emerging trends.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Statistical analysis

Data visualization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in statistics/ mathematics/ physics/ economics

Tools

SAS

SQL

Python

Impala

Hive

Tableau

Job description

Citi is seeking a fraud analytics professional in Jacksonville, FL to drive analytics-based strategies for credit card and retail banking fraud. You will analyze data, develop detection rules, and partner with policy and operations to reduce losses.

The role emphasizes building risk-aware strategies, presenting findings to management, and delivering timely insights to mitigate evolving fraud threats.