Senior Fraud Analytics Lead | Data-Driven Risk Insights

The Vanguard Group; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Work‑life balance

Retirement/investment in your future

Job summary

The Vanguard Group is seeking a seasoned Fraud Analytics Lead to drive complex analytics from problem definition through implementation and monitoring. You will design offline detections, establish performance measures, and guide investigative teams with actionable insights across accounts, clients, and transactions.

You will develop executive dashboards, validate data quality, and document methodologies for governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in data analytics, fraud analytics, risk analytics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex analytical initiatives and influencing business decisions.
• Advanced SQL skills, including experience analyzing large and complex datasets.
• Proficiency in Python or another analytical programming language used for data preparation, automation, statistical analysis, or detection development.
• Advanced experience developing dashboards and executive reporting in Tableau or a comparable visualization platform.
• Experience developing, testing, monitoring, or optimizing fraud detections, risk rules, anomaly‑detection methods, or analytical models.
• Strong understanding of analytical validation methods, data quality controls, and performance measurement.
• Ability to translate technical findings into concise, actionable recommendations for technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to review peer work, establish analytical standards, and coach less‑experienced analysts.
• Knowledge of financial‑services fraud typologies, investigations, fraud operations, or fraud loss measurement strongly preferred.
• Experience working in cloud‑based data environments and with governed enterprise data assets preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience; graduate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex fraud analytics initiatives from problem definition and data assessment through implementation, measurement, and ongoing monitoring.
• Designs, develops, back-tests, and optimizes offline fraud detections that generate actionable leads for investigative teams.
• Establishes performance measures for detections, including precision, recall, false-positive rates, alert volumes, loss exposure, and prevented or avoided impact.
• Identifies emerging fraud trends, anomalous behavior, common attributes, and fraud signatures across account, client, transactional, and case data.
• Leads forensic analysis and analytical support for significant fraud incidents, control gaps, and emerging typologies.
• Develops and owns executive reporting, dashboards, benchmarking, loss reporting, and recurring fraud performance products.
• Defines data quality controls and validates the completeness, accuracy, and reasonableness of fraud data used in reporting and detection.
• Documents analytical methodologies, assumptions, data lineage, and control procedures to support governance and audit readiness.
• Translates complex analytical findings into concise recommendations for fraud operations, risk partners, technology teams, and senior leadership.
• Reviews analytical approaches and work products developed by other analysts and provides technical direction, coaching, and quality assurance.
• Partners with investigative teams to establish feedback loops and disposition processes that improve detection effectiveness.
• Serves as an analytical subject‑matter expert on cross‑functional fraud initiatives, data modernization efforts, and evaluation of fraud tools or capabilities.

Skills

Fraud analytics

Advanced SQL

Python

Data visualization

Executive reporting

Risk analytics

Peer review coaching

Cloud data environments

Education

Undergraduate degree or higher; graduate degree preferred

Tools

Tableau

Job description

The Vanguard Group is seeking a seasoned Fraud Analytics Lead to drive complex analytics from problem definition through implementation and monitoring. You will design offline detections, establish performance measures, and guide investigative teams with actionable insights across accounts, clients, and transactions.

You will develop executive dashboards, validate data quality, and document methodologies for governance.