Trust and Safety Analyst

RealPage, Inc.; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 71,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development opportunities

Performance-based bonus

Job summary

RealPage, Inc. is seeking a Trust and Safety Analyst to support intake, triage, investigation, containment coordination, and resolution of fraud-related escalations across RealPage’s payments ecosystem.

The role requires strong SQL proficiency, critical thinking, and the ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving environment. This hands-on position involves cross-functional collaboration with Risk, Product, Engineering, and Legal to remediate issues.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in fraud investigations, trust and safety, fraud operations, payments risk, financial crimes, incident response, technical risk operations, or related risk analytics roles.
• Hands-on experience investigating fraud escalations, account activity, or payment-related risk in payments, fintech, banking, merchant acquiring, SaaS, marketplace, or digital platform environments.
• Mandatory SQL experience, with the ability to independently query data, investigate account and transaction activity, validate root cause, and support escalation resolution.
• Understanding of payments fraud, including card, ACH, bank account risk, unauthorized activity, disputes, chargebacks, returns, payout risk, account takeover, and onboarding risk.
• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Finance, Risk Management, Data Analytics, Business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong critical thinking, investigative judgment, and ability to connect data points across accounts, transactions, tools, and customer narratives.

Responsibilities

• Support intake, triage, investigation, and resolution of fraud-related escalations from customers, partners, banks, internal teams, and leadership.
• Investigate urgent, sensitive, or non-standard fraud matters, including account takeover, business email compromise, tenant payment fraud, unauthorized activity, counterparty fraud, onboarding misses, and payment misuse.
• Identify whether an escalation may require immediate containment, operational action, product or process remediation, compliance/legal review, or formal incident response.
• Coordinate containment actions with the appropriate operational owners, including account restrictions, payment holds, enhanced reviews, limit adjustments, or customer/partner outreach.
• Partner with Onboarding Risk Operations, Risk Monitoring Operations, Payment Operations, Customer Support, Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance/AML, Risk Strategy & Policy, and Data Science as needed to resolve escalation timely and consistently.
• Support fraud incident response through triage, case summaries, stakeholder updates, action tracking, and post-incident findings.
• Support recovery and law enforcement engagement through technical investigation and documentation.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Critical thinking

Investigative judgment

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Finance, Risk Management, Data Analytics, Business, or related field

Tools

Fraud platforms

CRM tools

Processor portals

Case management systems

Job description

Overview

SUMMARY

The Trust and Safety Analystis responsible forsupporting the intake, triage, investigation, root-cause analysis, containment coordination, and resolution of fraud-related escalations across RealPage’s payments ecosystem. This role will help investigate suspected fraud, account abuse, payment misuse, account takeover, business email compromise, tenant payment fraud, onboarding misses, and emerging fraud concerns.

This is a hands-on, technical analyst role requiring strong critical thinking, SQLproficiency, curiosity, and the ability to learn quickly in a fast-moving environment. The role will not own standard monitoring queues, routine onboarding reviews, or durable fraud rule and policy ownership, but will provide structured findings, data-driven insights, and clear documentation to supporttimelyresolution and remediation across operational teams.

Responsibilities

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Fraud Escalations & Incident Response

• Support intake, triage, investigation, and resolution of fraud-related escalations from customers, partners, banks, internal teams, and leadership.

• Investigate urgent, sensitive, or non-standard fraud matters, including account takeover, business email compromise, tenant payment fraud, unauthorized activity, counterparty fraud, onboarding misses, and payment misuse.

• Identifywhether an escalation may require immediate containment, operational action, product or process remediation, compliance/legal review, or formal incident response.

Technical Investigation & Root Cause

• Use SQL, payment data, account activity, case history, fraud tools, processor records, CRM data, and operational signals to investigate escalated fraud issues andvalidateroot cause.

• Document data reviewed, root cause, customer impact, actions taken, open risks, ownership handoffs, and recommended follow-up.

• Track recurring escalation themes, fraud patterns, operational breakdowns, data gaps, tooling gaps, and control weaknesses.

Containment & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate containment actions with theappropriate operationalowners, including account restrictions, payment holds, enhanced reviews, limit adjustments, or customer/partner outreach.

• Partner with Onboarding Risk Operations, Risk Monitoring Operations, Payment Operations, Customer Support, Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance/AML, Risk Strategy & Policy, and Data Science as needed to resolve escalationstimelyand consistently.

• Support fraud incident response through triage, case summaries, stakeholder updates, action tracking, and post-incident findings.

• Support recovery and law enforcement engagement through technical investigation and documentation

Process, Communication & Gap Management

• Coordinate with theappropriate operationalowners on containment actions, includingaccount restrictions, payment holds, enhanced reviews, limit adjustments, or customer/partner outreach.

• Partner with Onboarding Risk Operations, Risk Monitoring Operations, Payment Operations, Customer Support, Product, Engineering, Legal, Compliance/AML, Risk Strategy & Policy, and Data Science as needed to support escalation resolution.

• Provide clear, customer-sensitive, partner-ready, and executive-ready updates on escalation status, risk exposure, root cause, and resolution path.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• 3–5 years of experience in fraud investigations, trust and safety, fraud operations, payments risk, financial crimes, incident response, technical risk operations, or related risk analytics roles.

• Hands-on experience investigating fraud escalations, account activity, or payment-related risk in payments, fintech, banking, merchantacquiring, SaaS, marketplace, or digital platform environments.

• Mandatory SQL experience, with the ability to independently query data, investigate account and transaction activity,validateroot cause, and support escalation resolution.

• Understanding of payments fraud, including card, ACH, bank account risk, unauthorized activity, disputes, chargebacks, returns, payout risk, account takeover, and onboarding risk.

• Exposure to fraud typologies such as account takeover, business email compromise, synthetic identity, first-party misuse, counterparty fraud, onboarding fraud, stolen payment instruments, tenant payment fraud, or bust-out behavior.

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Finance, Risk Management, Data Analytics, Business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

Required:

• Strong critical thinking, investigative judgment, and ability to connect data points across accounts, transactions, tools, and customer narratives.

• Proactive, resourceful, and self-directed; able to learn new systems quickly, take ownership of ambiguous issues, and drive work forward with limited structure.

• Ability to manage competing priorities, switch context effectively, andmaintainaccuracy while handling multiple active escalations or time-sensitive requests.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize complex fraud issues for customers, partners, internal stakeholders, and leadership.

• Experience working across disconnected tools, imperfect data, payment systems, fraud platforms, CRM tools, processor portals, case management systems, or internal risk platforms.

• Preferred experience with property management, rent payments, real estate technology, B2B payments, vendor payments, bill pay, embedded payments, merchantacquiring, or customer-facing fraud response.

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Physical Demands and Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employeeis occasionally required tostand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects,toolsor controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; talk or hear. The employee must have the ability tooperatea personal computer and express or exchange ideasby means ofthe spoken word. May berequiredto sit and/or stand forlong periodsof time. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. May berequiredto lift or move 10+ pounds.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

• RealPage provides a competitive salary package along with a comprehensive benefit plan that includes:
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement savings plan with company match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Performance-based bonus based on position.

Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer: RealPage Company is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Pay Range

USD $70,700.00 - USD $120,300.00 /Yr.