Fraud Strategy Senior Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Set Fraud Strategy & Coverage: Define fraud prevention strategy across real-time payment channels, including risk appetite and control coverage.
• Own Real-Time Decisioning: Design and manage fraud rules, decision logic, and detection strategies within real-time decisioning platforms.
• Lead Platform & Capability Build: Drive enhancements and implementation of fraud rules engines and decisioning platforms in partnership with engineering.
• Optimize Performance Outcomes: Monitor and improve fraud detection, false positives, and client friction through ongoing control tuning and performance management.
• Leverage Data & Models: Use analytics and model insights to identify trends, refine strategies, and improve detection effectiveness.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations to embed fraud controls into customer journeys and new product launches.
• Ensure Strong Governance: Maintain disciplined control testing, monitoring, and adherence to risk and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Required Experience: 4+ years in fraud risk, payments risk, or financial crimes.
• Expertise in: Account takeover, social engineering, and transaction fraud risks within retirement and workplace channels.
• Proven experience managing real-time fraud decisioning environments and rules strategies.
• Strong experience partnering across Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field. Graduate degree preferred.
• Technical & Analytical Skills: Expertise in fraud rules engines / decisioning platforms, strong analytical capabilities (data analysis, segmentation, performance optimization), working knowledge of fraud models / machine learning concepts and model governance, ability to translate data into actionable fraud strategies and business decisions, strong experience with analytical tools such as Python, R, SAS, SQL, and platforms such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Leadership & Communication: Excellent communication and executive storytelling skills, highly collaborative with a track record of driving alignment across teams.

About Vanguard

Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work: Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.