[Remote] Fraud Insights & Emerging Risks Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Best Egg is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through a variety of installment lending solutions and financial health tools. The Fraud Insights & Emerging Risks Analyst will support the development of fraud prevention capabilities, focusing on researching emerging fraud trends and evaluating control gaps to help the fraud team stay ahead of evolving financial crimes behavior.

Responsibilities

• Monitor industry news, fraud forums, consortium data, and internal trends to identify new or evolving fraud threats
• Support enterprise bot-management and act as the Fraud Operations liaison during bot-related incidents, proactively identifying risks, assisting with triage, validating impact, and coordinating rapid remediation steps
• Assess and identify risks, including recommending mitigation plans to address impostor-related threats, such as fake websites, phishing emails, scams, and other social-engineering–based attacks
• Evaluate, identify and make recommendations to mitigate emerging 1st-party fraud behaviors, including credit washing, dispute abuse, and intentional misrepresentation - to assess potential vulnerabilities within our products and processes
• Conduct deep-dive investigations into specific fraud patterns or unusual activity
• Summarize findings, prepare briefings, and provide recommendations to Operations leaders, Fraud Strategy and Information Security teams
• Analyze fraud risk and support projects around detection gaps, operational processes and control performance to identify improvement opportunities
• Help gather requirements and test new controls, which may include rule changes to ensure effective implementation
• Research, analyze, and compare existing vendor capabilities and performance, identify insights, and make recommendations to improve fraud detection and prevention effectiveness
• Assist in evaluating how emerging fraud patterns could impact current products or processes
• Assist in creating analysis and business cases for investments in fraud-prevention tools, automation, and emerging technologies to support strategic decision-making
• Contribute to documentation, playbooks, and communications related to fraud changes or enhancements
• Build reports and dashboards that track fraud KPIs and control effectiveness

Skills

• 1–3+ years of experience in fraud analysis, risk analytics, financial crime, or related work
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data (Excel, BI tools, etc.)
• Understanding of common fraud types (identity fraud, ATO, synthetic IDs, social engineering, etc.)
• Ability to research independently and summarize findings clearly
• Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to learn
• Experience in consumer lending, banking, fintech, or payments
• Familiarity with fraud tools or vendors (e.g., identity verification, device intelligence)
• Exposure to fraud rules engines or case management systems
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Criminal Justice, Analytics, Business, etc.)

Benefits

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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