Ascensushr

Ascensushr

Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst

Remote, Pennsylvania · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 hours ago
Process ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Ascensus is seeking a Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst to join our Fraud Risk Management team.
  • The Senior Fraud Strategy Analyst will play a key role in identifying fraud trends and emerging threats, owning fraud rules and strategy execution, analyzing performance, and strengthening fraud risk capabilities over time.
  • This is a highly impactful role for an experienced fraud professional who can balance day-to-day execution with broader strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Use fraud tools, analytics, reporting, and available data sources to identify suspicious activity and support strategy optimization
  • Help build and mature fraud capabilities in a net-new or evolving environment, including supporting process development, rules governance, documentation standards, and performance monitoring practices
  • Partner cross-functionally with teams across risk, operations, compliance, legal, technology, product, and customer-facing functions to strengthen fraud controls and support strategic initiatives
  • Monitor fraud trends and key performance indicators and communicate findings, risks, and opportunities to leadership and business partners
  • Identify opportunities to improve workflows, controls, reporting, and fraud decision strategies, and help drive continuous improvement across the function
  • Support urgent or high-priority fraud issues requiring timely analysis, strategy adjustments, and cross-functional coordination
  • Support additional projects and responsibilities as needed
  • Experience analyzing fraud rule performance and using data to assess outcomes, validate results, identify optimization opportunities, and improve strategy effectiveness

Requirements

  • 3-7 years of progressive experience in fraud strategy, fraud investigations, financial crimes, or financial services risk management
  • Experience creating, managing, tuning, or optimizing fraud rules and decision strategies within a fraud platform or rules-based environment
  • 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, with the ability to interpret results, identify themes, assess risk, and make sound recommendations
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
  • Proven ability to identify process improvement opportunities and convert insights into practical solutions
  • Familiarity with fraud reporting, dashboarding, trend monitoring, or KPI/KRI development
  • If you are suspicious or unsure about validity of a job posting, we strongly encourage you to apply directly through our website.

Benefits

  • Experience in fraud and/or financial crime roles within banking, financial services, fintech, payments, retirement services, wealth services, or other highly regulated environments

This listing is sourced directly from Ascensushr's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.