Senior Fraud Analyst

We are seeking a Senior Fraud Analyst for a long term contract opportunity in San Francisco, CA. This role is ideal for an experienced individual contributor with strong fraud operations experience who can manage authorization risk, optimize fraud controls, and improve decision accuracy in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Review flagged transactions and make real-time authorization decisions based on risk indicators

• Develop and optimize fraud rules, thresholds, and transaction controls

• Analyze transaction activity to identify fraud trends and prevention opportunities

• Monitor fraud losses, approval rates, and false positives to improve performance

• Partner cross functionally with internal teams to strengthen fraud controls and decisioning

• Utilize fraud tools and platforms to investigate alerts and support ongoing enhancements

• Apply knowledge of card authorization workflows, decline responses, and interchange concepts

• Identify operational gaps and recommend scalable process improvements in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications:

• Significant experience with issuer-side transaction monitoring and card authorization fraud analysis

• Ability to build, adjust, and optimize fraud rules within decisioning platforms

• Strong analytical skills with experience identifying fraud trends and mitigation strategies

• Working knowledge of card authorization workflows, decline codes, and interchange concepts

• Experience with fraud prevention tools such as Falcon, Forter, Sardine, Sift, or similar platforms

• Background supporting issuing banks, sponsor organizations, or card programs in a fast-paced environment

Compensation

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