A global bank is looking to hire a Fraud Analytics Manager to work across its Card, Payments and Business Banking teams. Working as part of a larger team the role will have support of Analysts and a number of peers at Manager level. With offices across the UK, the core team is based in Yorkshire with one day a week to be spend in either Leeds or Sheffield.

A global bank is looking to hire a Fraud Analytics Manager to work across its Card, Payments and Business Banking teams. Working as part of a larger team the role will have support of Analysts and a number of peers at Manager level.

With offices across the UK, the core team is based in Yorkshire with one day a week to be spend in either Leeds or Sheffield.

The role will align to the Fraud Decisioning & Insights team within UK Fraud who are responsible for the day-to-day management of fraud across the business, ensuring that our fraud detection systems are fully optimised to detect fraud against the bank and its customers.

Where fraud occurs, the Decisioning & Insights team are also responsible for understanding the root cause of any fraud attack, identifying any control weaknesses or failures and escalating these to the appropriate control owner and the Fraud Control Design Team.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop routines to and undertake in-depth analysis of fraud patterns then develop and implement enhanced strategies within our fraud detection systems across on of the three core fraud typologies i.e. Card, Payments or Lending/First Party Fraud

• Manage the ongoing monitoring of the fraud detection systems to ensure that they are performing optimally and in line with appetite

• Manage flash fraud attacks on behalf of the Fraud team

• Interpret and manipulate large data sets to extract trends and identify issues and risk

• Work with other team members to ensure that detailed root-cause analysis is undertaken to identify control and/or process/procedure failings which may be driving fraud attacks, Escalating to process/control owners and the Fraud Change team to ensure that any required changes can be developed and implemented

• Developing and implementing routines to work closely with the operational teams to ensure that any fraud alerts generated have an appropriate treatment strategy

• Provide regular feedback to the Fraud Operations team where alerts have been worked incorrectly leading to an additional fraud loss

Ideal applicants will have:

• Proven expertise of working within an existing Fraud Analytics/Fraud strategy team

• Detailed knowledge of card authorisations processes is critical

• Experience of working with Fraud Detection systems such as SASEFM, Falcon is essential

• Knowledge of using, calibrating and optimising fraud detection tools is essential

• Relevant work experience in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or any quantitative discipline

• Experience of developing new processed and ways of working within a Fraud Strategy/Analytics team

• Experience of understanding what best in class fraud analytics/routines looks like

• Experience in SQL, SAS would be beneficial. Exposure to Python is desirable

In return the business will provide an excellent career opportunity with a solid benefits package including healthcare and market-leading pension.

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