Fraud Strategy Leader: Detect, Prevent, Optimize

Ascensus; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst to join our Fraud Risk Management team. This role will design, execute, and continuously improve fraud detection, prevention, and mitigation strategies across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring deep fraud domain expertise, experience with rules-based environments, and the ability to use data and performance results to drive improved outcomes while balancing customer experience.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of progressive experience in fraud strategy, investigations, financial crimes, or risk management.
• Experience in fraud and/or financial crime roles within regulated environments (banking, fintech, payments, retirement, wealth).
• Experience creating, managing, tuning, or optimizing fraud rules and decision strategies in a rules-based environment.
• Experience analyzing fraud rule performance using data to improve outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of fraud typologies and risk management across multiple fraud types.
• Proven ability to identify emerging fraud patterns and translate findings into recommendations.
• Experience across fraud systems, rules management, analytics and optimization, and risk strategy.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills; able to communicate across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Own and support fraud detection and prevention strategies across the lifecycle.
• Manage and optimize the fraud rules platform, create and refine rules, test changes, and monitor outputs.
• Analyze detection results to reduce false positives/negatives while minimizing customer friction.
• Identify emerging fraud trends, patterns, and typologies; recommend strategy changes.
• Conduct root cause analysis of fraud events and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Use analytics and data sources to identify suspicious activity and support strategy optimization.
• Help build mature fraud capabilities in evolving environments with governance and documentation.
• Partner with risk, operations, compliance, legal, technology, and product teams to strengthen controls.

Skills

Fraud strategy

Data analysis

Communication

Independent work

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Tools

Fraud rules platform

Fraud analytics tools

Dashboarding

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst to join our Fraud Risk Management team. This role will design, execute, and continuously improve fraud detection, prevention, and mitigation strategies across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring deep fraud domain expertise, experience with rules-based environments, and the ability to use data and performance results to drive improved outcomes while balancing customer experience.