Senior Business Manager, Fraud Operations Strategy

Senior Business Manager, Fraud Operations Strategy

The Senior Business Manager of Fraud Operations Strategy will lead a high-performing team of data science and risk professionals dedicated to protecting the global payment network. This role is responsible for overseeing the analysis of high-volume, complex transaction-level data to develop, implement, and optimize sophisticated fraud strategies and predictive fraud models. Acting as a critical bridge between internal stakeholders and external partners, you will drive initiatives that actively mitigate risk, block fraudulent transactions, and ensure network integrity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Analytics Management: Direct, mentor, and develop a team of eight (8) data analytics and data science professionals, primarily consisting of Principal Fraud Risk Specialists
• Advanced Data Analysis: Oversee the deep-dive analysis of transaction-level data, evaluating over 150 unique data elements and their configurations to identify anomalies, patterns, and emerging fraud vectors
• Strategy & Model Development: Drive the creation, testing, and deployment of robust fraud strategies and predictive fraud models to proactively block fraudulent transactions while minimizing false positives
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as a key liaison across both Internal & External entities to align fraud prevention efforts with broader corporate security and network protection goals
• Operational Excellence: Continuously refine data extraction, querying, and modeling methodologies to improve the speed and accuracy of fraud detection across the network

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 3 years of experience performing quantitative analysis
• At least 3 years of experience performing qualitative analysis
• At least 1 year of experience performing people management
• At least 1 year of experience performing project management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Business or quantitative field such as Finance, Economics, Physical Sciences, Math, Statistics, Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in quantitative analysis
• 5+ years of experience in qualitative analysis
• 2+ years of experience in people management
• 2+ years of experience in product development
• 2+ years of experience in financial modeling
• 2+ years of experience in economic forecasting
• 2+ years of experience in project management