Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst

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

• Own and support fraud detection and prevention strategies across the fraud lifecycle
• Manage and optimize the fraud rules platform, including creating new rules, refining existing rules, testing changes, validating outputs, and monitoring performance
• Analyze fraud detection results to identify false positive and false negative trends and recommend strategy changes
• Identify and respond to new and emerging fraud trends, attack patterns, and typologies
• Conduct root cause analysis of fraud events, losses, rule misses, and control failures
• Use fraud tools, analytics, reporting, and available data sources to identify suspicious activity and support strategy optimization
• Help build and mature fraud capabilities, including process development, rules governance, documentation standards, and performance monitoring practices
• 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, rules management, analytics, reporting, and detection tools
• Monitor fraud trends and KPIs and communicate findings, risks, and opportunities to leadership and business partners
• Prepare documentation, analyses, summaries, and presentations related to fraud trends, rule changes, strategy performance, and control recommendations
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, controls, reporting, and fraud decision strategies
• Support urgent or high-priority fraud issues requiring timely analysis, strategy adjustments, and cross-functional coordination
• Protect confidential information and properly handle sensitive data
• Demonstrate Ascensus’ I-Client service philosophy and Core Values
• Support additional projects and responsibilities as needed

Requirements

• 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 highly regulated environments
• Experience creating, managing, tuning, or optimizing fraud rules and decision strategies within a fraud platform or rules-based environment
• Experience analyzing fraud rule performance and using data to assess outcomes, validate results, identify optimization opportunities, and improve strategy effectiveness
• Strong knowledge of fraud typologies and fraud risk management practices across identity fraud, account takeover, social engineering, payment fraud, mule activity, first‑party fraud, and organized fraud schemes
• Proven ability to identify emerging fraud patterns and translate findings into actionable recommendations, control enhancements, and long-term strategy improvements
• Experience working across fraud systems, rules management, fraud analytics and optimization, and fraud risk strategy
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and manage multiple priorities
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Proven ability to identify process improvement opportunities and convert insights into practical solutions
• Familiarity with fraud reporting, dashboarding, trend monitoring, or KPI/KRI development

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in fraud detection and prevention strategies, with a strong focus on analyzing fraud trends, optimizing fraud rules, and enhancing fraud capabilities. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement effective fraud management practices and communicate insights to leadership.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Fraud Strategy Development
• Fraud Rule Management
• Fraud Analytics and Optimization
• Fraud Risk Management
• Data Analysis and Reporting

Hard Skills

• Fraud Detection
• Fraud Rule Optimization
• Data Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
• Fraud Typologies Knowledge
• Fraud Risk Management Practices
• KPI Development
• Fraud Reporting
• Fraud Systems Management
• Financial Crimes Investigation

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Critical Thinking
• Problem‑Solving
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication

Industry Keywords

• Financial Services
• Fintech
• Payments
• Retirement Services
• Wealth Services
• Regulated Environments
• Fraud Prevention
• Fraud Detection Strategies
• Compliance
• Risk Management

Tools & Technologies

• Fraud Tools
• Analytics Platforms
• Reporting Tools
• Fraud Rules Platform
• Dashboarding Tools