
Manager of Controls & Surveillance
- Los Angeles, CA Newark, DE
- $127,626-237,014 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Understanding, documenting, analyzing, and reducing the total cost of fraud losses and fraud controls
- Contributing to and maintaining governance and oversight to identify, assess, mitigate, and report on fraud losses and near-miss attempts
- Lead the development and implementation of fraud surveillance strategies and methodologies
- Evaluating fraud cases and losses holistically to identify potential trends, and areas of improvement.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including technology, operations, investigation, risk to enhance fraud detection capabilities and implement preventive measures
- Partner with technology to ensure data integrity, data availability, and data security through the fraud analytics process
- Utilize advance analytics techniques such as statistical modelling, machine learning, and predictive analytics to identify fraud patters and create rules and models
- Analyze large datasets to extract actionable insights and identify areas of fraud vulnerability
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to communicate status reports to senior management, auditors, and regulators
- Performing ad hoc analyses and participating in special projects as needed by management
- Recruit. Hire and Train a team of data analysts and data scientist with expertise in fraud analytics and data science
- Provide guidance, mentorship and performance evaluations to ensure team's growth and success
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a fraud prevention, risk, control improvement, or assurance function, preferably in the financial services industry
- Minimum 3 years in managing and developing the team of analysts, data scientists
- Experience with fraud tools such as: NICE Actimize, Guardian Analytics, Safer Payments, Falcon, TSYS Card Guard, Visa Risk Manager, and/or BAE preferred
- Understanding of the fraud risk landscape and experience using threat intelligence to inform and drive a strategy
- Ability to manage delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives
- Proficiency in programming language including Python, R, SQL for data manipulation, analysis and modelling
- Expertise with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power-Bi
- Experience with managing initiatives and teams of high-performing individuals under pressure
- Understanding of fraud tactics, client authentication and authorization technology and processes
- Naturally curious approach and willingness to dig into detailed issues and define creative approaches to process improvement or control remediation
- Strong listening and verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to tailor the message to the audience
- Proven ability to work across departments to influence others and build strong relationships
- Strong process and project management skills, including experience with creating and delivering presentations to senior management
- Ability to work independently and possess a strong sense of accountability/ownership
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Ability to use desktop tools to perform analyses and develop presentations for senior management
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
- Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
- Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
- Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
- Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
- Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
- Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement