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Senior Fraud Analyst

Senior Fraud Analyst

CompanyActiveCampaign
LocationChicago, IL, USA
Salary$110400 – $151800
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in a fraud, risk, or trust and safety analyst role, preferably within a SaaS or technology company.
  • Strong data analysis skills. You must be proficient in writing SQL queries to pull and manipulate data. Experience with data warehouses like Athena or Snowflake is ideal.
  • An Investigative Mindset: You are naturally curious, skeptical, and detail-oriented. You know how to form a hypothesis, pull the data to test it, and follow the evidence to a conclusion.
  • Excellent Communication and Collaboration Skills: You can clearly explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and enjoy working collaboratively with other teams to solve problems.
  • A Bias for Action and Ownership: You are comfortable working in a small team environment and are not afraid to take ownership of a problem from start to finish.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate Complex Threats: Serve as the primary escalation point for our Trust & Safety team on complex Account Takeover (ATO), payment fraud, and platform abuse cases.
  • Master Our Data: Dive deep into our data using Sift, Looker, and direct SQL queries in Athena/Snowflake to uncover patterns, identify root causes, and find evidence of malicious activity.
  • Tune and Refine Detections: Take ownership of the effectiveness of our abuse rule sets. You will constantly analyze rule performance, tune them to reduce false positives, and create new rules to catch emerging threats.
  • Automate and Scale: Identify opportunities to automate repetitive analytical tasks using scripting (e.g., SQL, Python) and other tools, freeing up time to focus on high-impact strategic work.
  • Collaborate and Empower: Act as a key partner to our Trust & Safety team, providing them with training, documentation, and expert guidance. You will also partner closely with our Security Data Engineering to design and build new detection models.
  • Drive the Feedback Loop: You will be the engine of our improvement cycle. When you see a gap in our defenses, you will be responsible for defining the requirements for a new rule, model, or data source and seeing it through to implementation.
  • Manage Vendor Relationships: Act as the primary technical point of contact for our fraud and security tooling vendors, ensuring we are maximizing their value.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, etc. is preferred.
  • Basic scripting skills (e.g., Python) for data analysis or automation is a bonus.
  • Experience in training, mentoring, or leading other compliance professionals is a plus.