Senior Risk Prevention Analyst

🕒 August 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $67.7k - $104.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎲 Risk

👻 Ghost score 24%

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Velera

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Marketing • Fintech

Velera is a company that provides a wide range of solutions for financial institutions, focusing on payment and banking technology. The company offers services in digital card issuance, digital wallets, and provides a co-op pay network and ATM terminal driving. Velera integrates sophisticated scoring and decision-making tools for fraud prevention and identity authentication. It also offers strategic consulting services for growth and marketing. Velera positions itself as a partner in digital banking and financial technology innovation.

📋 Description

• Develop fraud strategies using transaction data, machine learning, and analytics to reduce losses and maintain customer experience • Manage and optimize fraud strategies, balancing risk control with customer experience • Coordinate Risk Analytics tasks, projects, SLAs, turnaround times, and output quality • Resolve complex service escalations from calls and internal partners • Monitor client fraud trends and recommend procedure improvements • Serve as a fraud subject matter expert for incidents, investigations, and client presentations • Apply advanced analytics to solve business problems impacting current or future strategy • Maintain relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors • Create BI reporting for senior leadership, boards, and examiners • Partner with assigned clients through calls and emails to support fraud mitigation • Shape cross-functional solution strategies using business, analytical, and technical expertise • Present recommendations to colleagues, peer reviewers, and management • Use visualizations to clarify analytical findings for nontechnical audiences • Monitor department workflow to ensure time-sensitive work meets standards • Advise internal contacts on sensitive issues, client procedures, and product enhancements • Manage process documentation and communications with internal and external parties • Identify quality data sources for business questions, testing, and exploratory analysis • Integrate, transform, and cleanse data from multiple sources • Consult clients and staff on fraud prevention, write rules, build custom solutions, and monitor assigned client groups • Identify fraud-related risk exposure and determine mitigation measures • Monitor portfolio performance, identify trends, conduct root-cause analysis, and develop data-driven fraud defenses • Collaborate with internal teams as a client advocate for fraud and risk initiatives • Report identified risks to the appropriate team or management • Manage, monitor, and report work-area risks, including Information Security risks • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience required • Seven (7) years within the financial services industry required • Seven (7) years of professional experience in risk analytics, fraud mitigation, and/or fraud services required • Experience with Fraud Detection Work Center (FDWC) and/or FDR systems required • Experience with fraud orchestration and decisioning tools (e.g., DefenseEdge, Falcon, Advance Defense, Fraud Navigator) preferred • Deep experience working with fraud detection strategies, rules tuning, and fraud modeling • Payments processing system knowledge preferred • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Strong proficiency with SQL; ability to analyze large, complex datasets and derive actionable insights • Strong understanding of fraud metrics, forecasting methods, and false positive/true fraud tradeoffs • Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights • Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate technical subject matter clearly and succinctly to team members and financial institutions • Project management experience preferred • Ability to work independently and make sound risk decisions during overnight hours while effectively managing escalations and time-sensitive fraud events • Ability to work a fixed overnight schedule of Monday through Friday, 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM Eastern Time • This role is currently not eligible for sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive wages • Medical with telemedicine • Dental and Vision • Basic and Optional Life Insurance • Paid Time Off (PTO) • Maternity, Parental, Family Care • Community Volunteer Time Off • 12 Paid Holidays • Company Paid Disability Insurance • 401k (with employer match) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Supplemental Insurance • Mental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Tuition Reimbursement • Wellness program • Remote-first, flexible environment • Psychological safety, wellbeing and belonging