Senior Risk & Fraud Analyst

Senior Risk & Fraud Analyst focuses on leading the full lifecycle of financial risk strategy: opportunity identification.

What the role involves

• Leading the full lifecycle of financial risk strategy: opportunity identification.
• Design, testing, launch, and ongoing performance monitoring.
• Monitor fraudulent or anomalous transaction activity.
• Analysing internal and external data to produce authoritative root-cause reports on fraudulent activities and payment anomalies.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to design and deploy automated fraud prevention solutions that balance growth with risk control.
• Ensure alignment on fraud and risk management.

Skills and requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience, including at least 3 years in a fraud-related role and at least 1 year in the payments industry.
• Hands-on experience with payment fraud — specifically within card-based payment networks (chargebacks, 3DS, Visa/Mastercard dispute workflows).
• Strong data modelling skills (3+ years): feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and production deployment of fraud detection and anomaly detection models.
• SQL proficiency (must-have) — able to independently query.

Confirmed role details

• Our client is one of Canada's fastest-growing fintech platforms, transforming how consumers pay, save, and earn rewards.
• Fast-paced startup environment with strong growth trajectory — $100M+ GMV and targeting 4x year-over-year growth.

Additional role context

• The platform partners with 500+ leading brands and recently expanded into the US market, with teams in Etobicoke, ON and San Jose, CA.
• The company is targeting 4x year-over-year GMV growth and is actively building out its financial product suite.