AVP, Transactional Fraud Strategy

Synchrony

AVP in Fraud Prevention Strategy team at Synchrony overseeing fraud prevention strategies and analytics. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance fraud detection and customer experience.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeAlpharetta • Connecticut, Florida, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $100,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQLSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop and support best-in-class analytic solutions/algorithms for Fraud Prevention Strategy team (Transactional Fraud).
Design, implement, and optimize transaction monitoring strategies (e.g., rules/controls, thresholds, segmentation) to improve fraud capture while minimizing customer friction and protecting approval rates.
Identify, quantify, and communicate key fraud trends and emerging attack patterns using advanced analytics; partner with stakeholders to deploy mitigation strategies and compensating controls.
Own end-to-end strategy lifecycle management (ideation → analysis → testing/validation → implementation → monitoring), managing multiple projects/priorities independently.
Establish and maintain strategy performance monitoring and reporting (e.g., fraud loss rate, approval rate impact, false positive rate, decline accuracy, alert yield, operational throughput as applicable); deliver regular readouts to leadership.
Execute champion/challenger testing (A/B tests) and iterative tuning; document results and recommend rollouts/scale-back based on measured impact.
Drive enhancements that differentiate fraud loss mitigation strategies across strategic portfolio segments, leveraging unique risk/customer behaviors and incremental data signals.
Work with finance and PCM teams to ensure strategies are driving the desired P & L impacts.
Partner closely with Fraud Operations to align strategies to queue design/alert logic and operating procedures; identify opportunities to reduce manual review and improve decision quality.
Provide swift actions to combat immediate fraud attacks (triage, containment, and stakeholder updates) and conduct post-mortems to implement durable preventative controls.
Support strategy governance, including change control, monitoring documentation, and audit readiness (in partnership with risk/compliance as applicable).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree and minimum 4 years’ experience (or in lieu of a degree, 8 years’ experience) in retail, business or private label credit
Minimum 3 years’ experience in Strategy Development
Demonstrated expert proficiency with SAS and/or SQL programming especially data extractions and ensuring data quality
Demonstrated ability to measure and optimize fraud strategies using performance metrics (fraud capture/loss reduction, false positives, approval rate/customer impact).
Experience working with large datasets and building analytical features/aggregations to identify fraud patterns and monitor strategy performance.
Experience with experimentation (e.g., champion/challenger, A/B testing) and translating results into production strategy changes (preferred).
High proficiency with Excel.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development
Annual bonus based on performance

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Hard Skills & Tools

SASSQLdata extractiondata qualityperformance metricsfraud capturefalse positivesA/B testinganalytical featuresstrategy development

Soft Skills

communicationproject managementstakeholder engagementanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingindependent workcollaborationadaptabilityleadershipstrategic thinking