Intelligence Lead Analyst Vice President

About the role

The Intelligence Lead Analyst is a senior-level professional responsible for driving efforts to prevent, monitor, and respond to information/data breaches and cyber-attacks. The overall objective is to ensure the execution of Information Security directives and activities in alignment with Citi's data security policy.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial crime, fraud, and scam intelligence to identify correlations to existing intelligence requirements, strategic priorities, and emerging threat trends.
• Monitor and research fraud and scam threats with a direct or indirect impact on Citi, its clients, products, channels, and brand.
• Conduct intelligence investigations into fraud campaigns, social engineering schemes, mule networks, account takeover activity, synthetic identity fraud, business email compromise, and other financial crime threats.
• Research and identify emerging fraud methodologies, criminal tactics, and threat actor behaviors through internal data, external intelligence sources, and industry collaboration.
• Analyze fraud patterns, victimization trends, and threat actor activity to identify indicators, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for risk reduction.
• Produce strategic, tactical, and operational intelligence reporting to support fraud prevention, investigations, customer protection, and risk management functions.
• Develop threat assessments and forecasts on emerging fraud trends, scam typologies, organized crime activity, and potential impacts to the firm and its customers.
• Liaise with law enforcement, financial crime intelligence units, peer financial institutions, industry forums, and information-sharing communities to facilitate intelligence exchange and threat awareness.
• Triage, process, analyze, and disseminate intelligence alerts, reports, advisories, and executive briefings related to fraud, scams, and financial crime threats.
• Support fraud investigations by identifying connections between threat actors, criminal networks, victim activity, and broader fraud ecosystems.
• Partner with Fraud, AML, Investigations, Compliance, Security, and Business Risk teams to enhance enterprise understanding of financial crime threats and mitigation strategies.
• Manage relationships with third-party intelligence, investigative, and fraud prevention providers, including vendor evaluation, onboarding, contract oversight, performance monitoring, and capability optimization.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in forensic accounting, fraud intelligence, financial crime investigations, asset tracing, law enforcement, intelligence analysis, or related disciplines.
• Experience investigating fraud schemes, scam operations, money laundering activity, organized criminal networks, and other forms of financial crime.
• Knowledge of digital assets, cryptocurrency investigations, blockchain analytics, and crypto-enabled financial crime.
• Demonstrated ability to trace funds, identify beneficial ownership structures, and uncover complex financial relationships across individuals, entities, and accounts.
• Experience producing actionable intelligence assessments, investigative reports, and executive briefings.
• Strong analytical, investigative, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven influencing, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience required.
• Degree concentration in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Criminal Justice, Intelligence Studies, Business Administration, Fraud Examination, Law, Data Analytics, or a related field preferred.
• Relevant professional certifications including CPA, CFE, CAMS (ACAMS), or equivalent professional credentials preferred.

Primary location: San Antonio, Texas, United States.

Pay

Full-time salary range: $113,840.00 - $170,760.00. In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, accident, and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.

Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.