Fraud Strategy Lead - Analytics & Rules Optimization

Jobtailor; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Fraud Strategy professional to lead detection and prevention initiatives across the fraud lifecycle. You will shape rules, monitor performance, and drive improvements with cross-functional partners.

The role requires deep knowledge of fraud typologies, data analysis, and risk management in regulated financial services environments. You will translate insights into actionable controls, dashboards, and reports for leadership.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of progressive experience in fraud strategy, fraud investigations, financial crimes, or financial services risk management.
• Experience in fraud and/or financial crime roles within banking, financial services, fintech, payments, retirement services, wealth services, or other regulated environments.
• Experience creating, managing, tuning, or optimizing fraud rules and decision strategies.
• Experience analyzing fraud rule performance and using data to assess outcomes and identify optimization opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of fraud typologies and risk management practices.

Responsibilities

• Own and support fraud detection and prevention strategies across the fraud lifecycle.
• Manage and optimize the fraud rules platform, including creating new rules and refining existing rules.
• Analyze fraud detection results to identify false positives and false negatives and recommend strategy changes.
• Identify and respond to new and emerging fraud trends and attack patterns.
• Conduct root cause analysis of fraud events, losses, rule misses, and control failures.
• Use fraud tools, analytics and data sources to identify suspicious activity and support strategy optimization.
• Help build and mature fraud capabilities, including governance, documentation standards and performance monitoring.
• Partner with risk, operations, compliance, legal, technology, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Work with internal technology teams and third-party providers to enhance fraud systems and detection tools.
• Monitor fraud trends and KPIs and communicate findings to leadership and business partners.
• Prepare analyses and presentations related to fraud trends, rule changes and control recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and reporting and fraud decision strategies.
• Support urgent fraud issues requiring timely analysis and cross-functional coordination.
• Protect confidential information and handle sensitive data.
• Demonstrate Ascensus’ I-Client service philosophy and Core Values.
• Support additional projects and responsibilities as needed.

Skills

Fraud Strategy Development

Fraud Rule Management

Fraud Analytics

Data Analysis

KPI Development

Fraud Detection

Root Cause Analysis

Cross-functional Collaboration

Presentation Skills

Independent Work

Tools

Fraud Tools

Analytics Platforms

Reporting Tools

Fraud Rules Platform

Dashboarding Tools

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Fraud Strategy professional to lead detection and prevention initiatives across the fraud lifecycle. You will shape rules, monitor performance, and drive improvements with cross-functional partners.

The role requires deep knowledge of fraud typologies, data analysis, and risk management in regulated financial services environments. You will translate insights into actionable controls, dashboards, and reports for leadership.