Fraud Insights & Emerging Risks Analyst
Best Egg
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $120,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Monitor industry news, fraud forums, consortium data, and internal trends to identify new or evolving fraud threats.
- Support enterprise bot-management and act as the Fraud Operations liaison during bot-related incidents, proactively identifying risks, assisting with triage, validating impact, and coordinating rapid remediation steps.
- Assess and identify risks, including recommending mitigation plans to address impostor-related threats, such as fake websites, phishing emails, scams, and other social-engineering–based attacks.
- Evaluate, identify and make recommendations to mitigate emerging 1st-party fraud behaviors, including credit washing, dispute abuse, and intentional misrepresentation - to assess potential vulnerabilities within our products and processes.
- Conduct deep-dive investigations into specific fraud patterns or unusual activity.
- Summarize findings, prepare briefings, and provide recommendations to Operations leaders, Fraud Strategy and Information Security teams.
- Analyze fraud risk and support projects around detection gaps, operational processes and control performance to identify improvement opportunities.
- Help gather requirements and test new controls, which may include rule changes to ensure effective implementation.
- Research, analyze, and compare existing vendor capabilities and performance, identify insights, and make recommendations to improve fraud detection and prevention effectiveness.
- Assist in evaluating how emerging fraud patterns could impact current products or processes.
- Assist in creating analysis and business cases for investments in fraud-prevention tools, automation, and emerging technologies to support strategic decision-making.
- Contribute to documentation, playbooks, and communications related to fraud changes or enhancements.
- Build reports and dashboards that track fraud KPIs and control effectiveness.
Requirements
- 1–3+ years of experience in fraud analysis, risk analytics, financial crime, or related work.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data (Excel, BI tools, etc.).
- Understanding of common fraud types (identity fraud, ATO, synthetic IDs, social engineering, etc.).
- Ability to research independently and summarize findings clearly.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to learn.
- Experience in consumer lending, banking, fintech, or payments (preferred).
- Familiarity with fraud tools or vendors (e.g., identity verification, device intelligence) (preferred).
- Exposure to fraud rules engines or case management systems (preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Criminal Justice, Analytics, Business, etc.) (preferred).
Benefits
- Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
- Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
- Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
- Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
- Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
- Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
fraud analysisrisk analyticsfinancial crimedata analysisfraud detectionfraud preventionreportingdashboard creationdata validationmitigation planning
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsdetail-orientedproactiveindependent researchcross-functional collaborationeager to learn