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

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Hard Skills

SASSQLdata extractiondata qualityperformance metricsfraud capturefalse positivesA/B testinganalytical featuresstrategy development

Soft Skills

communicationproject managementstakeholder engagementanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingindependent workcollaborationadaptabilityleadershipstrategic thinking

Tools & Technologies

Exceltransaction monitoring systemsfraud detection toolsreporting toolsdata visualization softwarerisk management systemsperformance monitoring systemsaudit readiness toolscustomer relationship management (CRM)business intelligence (BI) tools

Industry Keywords

fraud preventiontransactional fraudretail creditprivate label creditstrategy lifecycle managementfraud loss mitigationoperational throughputcustomer impactrisk compliancechange control

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