Fraud Strategy Analyst 1LOD

City National Bank
Phoenix, US
On-site

Job Description

FRAUD STRATEGY ANALYST 1LOD

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The Non-Card Fraud Strategy Analyst participates actively in the Bank's fraud prevention and risk management activities to identify and mitigate both the Bank's and our clients' exposure to potential fraudulent activities. The Analyst works with the Fraud Strategy Lead and is responsible for evaluating client and situational/threat trends by payment type, division, fraud schemes and other relevant metrics. The individual should be able to identify the current or upcoming risk and design an end-to-end control strategy to mitigate against the risk. The Analyst should be able to identify the trend, analyze data and provide information-based recommendation to optimize the control environment. In addition, the lead will use the analytics to identify gaps, risks and issues to better drive fraud mitigation performance.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

  • Planning: Assist in efforts to evaluate current and upcoming threats, identify control environment and opportunity and determine enhancement and work with product, technology, operations to create a roadmap
  • New Product Assessment and Business Enablement: As part of a project team, partner with business and product stakeholder to ensure the products can be securely rolled out
  • Risk Assessment: Working with the Fraud Strategy Lead, execute Fraud Risk Assessment(s) to ensure the vulnerabilities are identified and steps are taken to mitigate the risk
  • Execution: Must have end to end ownership of the identified fraud risk and operational metrics reporting. Use data to identify current, historic and emerging risks within accounts, across channels and within products. Must have extensive domain experience in using data and analytics you help mitigate non-card fraud while creating “friction right” experiences that enable us to grow.
  • System: Working with Fraud Rules Strategy, be able to evaluate and identify risks in system rule efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Communication: Concisely communicate the fraud trend recommendation to the stakeholders including leadership across different groups to ensure alignment.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Required Qualifications*

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
  • Minimum 5 years of experience within Fraud prevention and detection for a fintech or bank.
  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience working with fraud data, excellent at SQL/Python and Excel and know what to look for and how to direct an analytical team

Additional Qualifications

  • Prefer a degree to be in Statistics, Math, Operations Research or other analytical or quantitative discipline.
  • Ownership Mindset: Must have high degree of initiative and passion to improve the fraud security and customer experience.
  • Leadership Traits: Must be able to aid in advocating and driving an initiative to completion through professionalism, confidence and cooperation.
  • Team Building Skills: Must be a collaborative team player.
  • Hands On: Must be able to write your own SQL code, build business cases in excel or create PowerPoint presentations then this is not the right role for you.
  • Business Acumen: Must have strong business acumen such as (i) ability to think strategically, frame for success and execute tactically (ii) understand how to prioritize most important and (iii) deliver results over short, medium and long term.
  • Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to identify the root cause problem and identifying the solution that will create maximum impact
  • Experience with new digital applications like real time payments, apple wallet, virtual cards etc.
  • Experience with quantitative, analytical and business acumen skills: ability to derive patterns and trends, perform risk-reward trade off analysis, create pitch decks to socialize etc.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

CompensationStarting base salary: $92,114 - $156,880 per year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This job is eligible for bonus and/or commissions.

Benefits and Perks

At City National, we strive to be the best at whatever we do, including the benefits and perks we offer our colleagues including:

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
  • Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
  • Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
  • Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
  • Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
  • Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
  • Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement

Get a more detailed look at our Benefits and Perks.

ABOUT US

Since day one we've always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and communities flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entreprene

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

Fraud preventionRisk managementSqlPythonExcelProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkFraud strategyBanking

Salary

$92,114 - $156,880

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

junior

Posted

4/27/2026

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