Principal Business Analyst, Fraud

Mission Lane

Principal Business Analyst analyzing fraud trends and developing strategies at Mission Lane. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve customer experience and protect against financial crime.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $118,000 - $135,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Analyze and Investigate Fraud Trends: Dive deep into application data to proactively identify emerging fraud patterns, uncover system vulnerabilities, and understand the evolving tactics used by criminals.
Develop and Fine Tune Fraud Strategies: Design, build, and implement new, real-time defenses to detect and prevent fraudulent applications. You will constantly test and refine our strategies to stay ahead of fraudsters.
Balance Risk with Customer Experience: Make thoughtful, data-backed decisions that strike the optimal balance between risk prevention and customer experience.
Monitor and Report on Performance: Create and maintain robust dashboards to track the performance of fraud strategies. You’ll be responsible for reporting on key metrics like coverage, pause rates, step-up completion rates, defense performance, and losses.
Optimize and Collaborate: Work closely with our Operations, Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to continuously improve fraud detection capabilities and strategies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in a highly analytical role (e.g., risk, business analytics, data science)
Experience conducting analytical work with credit cards or other consumer lending products
Hands-on experience designing and executing A/B or Champion/Challenger testing within application or risk funnels
Proven ability to problem solve end-to-end: from framing the question and forming a hypothesis, to analyzing the data, to communicating and debating the answer with stakeholders
Familiarity with SQL, Python, or other tools for data analysis
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar quantitative field with a record of strong academic performance

Benefits

Comp & perks

unlimited paid time off
401(k) match
a monthly wellness stipend
health/ dental/ vision insurance options
disability coverage
paid parental leave
flexible spending account (for childcare and healthcare)
life insurance
a remote-friendly work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data AnalysisFraud DetectionRisk ManagementStatistical AnalysisPerformance Metrics Reporting

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingCollaborationCommunication