Fraud Investigation, Manager
Community Financial System, Inc. · Syracuse, NY · 3 wk ago
Legal$16/hrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Bank's fraud investigations function, including Fraud Investigation Analysts, Investigators, and Team Leads.
- Oversee daily operations, staffing, workflow prioritization, quality standards, escalation handling, and case management across the higher-risk and investigative fraud teams.
- Ensure elevated fraud matters, investigative referrals, and complex fraud cases are handled timely, thoroughly, and consistently.
- Provide leadership support and direction on major fraud events, sensitive customer matters, complex loss situations, suspicious patterns, and broader institutional risk concerns.
- Establish and reinforce investigative standards for case development, analysis, documentation, quality, and escalation.
- Partner with fraud prevention leadership and other internal teams to ensure appropriate case handoff, issue resolution, and alignment across the broader fraud operating model.
- Maintain awareness of investigative trends, case outcomes, losses, root-cause themes, and control opportunities and recommend procedural or strategic improvements.
- Support management reporting, metric development, trend analysis, and executive updates related to fraud investigations activity.
- Coach and develop team leads and staff, including performance management, skill development, succession planning, and organizational capability growth.
- Identify training needs and support the development of a stronger investigative skillset across the department.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Info Security, Legal, Operations, branches, Customer Care, Physical Security, and other business units to support fraud case resolution and broader control effectiveness.
- Support policy, procedure, and workflow design for higher-risk fraud analysis and investigative activity.
- Contribute to strategic fraud program development, organizational design, and investigative capability maturity.
Qualifications
Not Specified