Principal Business Analyst, Fraud

We’re looking for a data-driven problem-solver with proven success investigating and identifying patterns in a highly analytical role in the consumer credit or lending industry, and solid familiarity with data analysis tools to join our Customer Operations team as a Principal Business Analyst, Fraud.

You’ll drive forward our mission of empowering people to unlock financial progress by protecting our customers and our business from financial crime, reducing fraud losses, and improving the experience for our cardholders. 

You will be instrumental in building and implementing application fraud defense strategies that balance risk and a seamless customer experience. This role is a fantastic opportunity to gain end-to-end knowledge and practical experience in critical, high-impact risk strategies, positioning you as a trusted expert in the rapidly evolving fintech space.

• Analyze and Investigate Fraud Trends: Dive deep into application data to proactively identify emerging fraud patterns, uncover system vulnerabilities, and understand the evolving tactics used by criminals.
• Develop and Fine Tune Fraud Strategies: Design, build, and implement new, real-time defenses to detect and prevent fraudulent applications. You will constantly test and refine our strategies to stay ahead of fraudsters.
• Balance Risk with Customer Experience: Make thoughtful, data-backed decisions that strike the optimal balance between risk prevention and customer experience.
• Monitor and Report on Performance: Create and maintain robust dashboards to track the performance of fraud strategies. You’ll be responsible for reporting on key metrics like coverage, pause rates, step-up completion rates, defense performance, and losses.
• Optimize and Collaborate: Work closely with our Operations, Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to continuously improve fraud detection capabilities and strategies.

• 3+ years of experience in a highly analytical role (e.g., risk, business analytics, data science).
• Experience conducting analytical work with credit cards or other consumer lending products.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing A/B or Champion/Challenger testing within application or risk funnels.
• Proven ability to problem solve end-to-end: from framing the question and forming a hypothesis, to analyzing the data, to communicating and debating the answer with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or other tools for data analysis.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, or a similar quantitative field with a record of strong academic performance.

• Direct experience in Fraud Strategy and Analytics.
• Expertise in SQL and Python.
• Experience helping scale a business in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Adaptability & Agility: You can quickly pivot your focus to address high-priority issues.
• Analytical Curiosity: You have a genuine desire to dig into data, question assumptions, and seek the root cause of problems.
• Ownership Mentality: You take personal responsibility for the success of your work.
• Bias for Action: You are eager to experiment and view challenges as opportunities for growth.

Mission Lane is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status. 

Mission Lane provides reasonable accommodations to applicants who need them for medical or religious reasons, as required by law.  Applicants can initiate an accommodation request by contacting peopleexperience@missionlane.com.

Mission Lane is not sponsoring new applicant employment authorization and please, no third-party recruiters.

Our cardholders trust us with their financial well-being, and this trust starts with the integrity of the people on our team. We're looking for team members who share our dedication to transparency and truth. Please verify that the information in your application is accurate and complete. 

Providing any information to Mission Lane that is not completely truthful at any point during the application or hiring process may result in removal from the hiring process, disqualification from future opportunities, withdrawal of an offer or other sanctions for candidates and, in addition for employees, disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.