Analytics Lead, Deposit Fraud Risk
Remote US · 7+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote US
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- The Analytics Lead for Deposit Fraud Risk will own fraud performance for depository products, monitoring key risk metrics and portfolio health.
- This role serves as a representative of the Credit Risk organization, partnering cross-functionally to refine identity verification, fraud processes, and application flows.
- The position involves developing fraud strategies, optimizing decision models, and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to improve fraud solutions.
Responsibilities
- Monitor fraud losses, approval rates, false positives, customer friction, and other key risk metrics.
- Build and maintain scalable data models and transformation pipelines using tools like DBT.
- Define trusted fraud performance metrics and analytical datasets.
- Develop recurring dashboards, scorecards, and monitoring frameworks.
- Conduct deep-dive analyses to diagnose fraud losses, control gaps, and portfolio shifts.
- Develop and optimize fraud rules, policies, thresholds, models, and decision strategies.
- Evaluate new data sources and signals to improve detection of identity, account takeover, device, and transaction risk.
- Lead testing and performance measurement of fraud strategy changes.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Fraud Operations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of analytics experience.
- Fluent in SQL and Python.
- Working knowledge of payment processing fundamentals.
- Understanding of industry risk trends and fraud strategy development.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple teams.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong time management skills and ability to manage multiple projects.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be responsive during peak fraud activity.
Benefits
- 100% subsidized medical coverage for employees and dependents
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending
- Flexible time off
- Generous holiday calendars
- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Workplace
- Remote-first role within the United States.
- Some positions may occasionally require in-person work at an Affirm office.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- DBT