Hybrid Full-time

Forward Financing is hiring a Risk Analyst, Fraud Operations

About the Role

Forward Financing is seeking a Risk Analyst, Fraud Operations to join our team. In this role, you’ll develop profitable strategies to mitigate fraud risk while supporting a low friction customer experience. You will leverage various data sources to evaluate the risk of fraudulent applications for both new and repeat customers, focusing on first and third-party risks.

What You'll Do

  • Review accounts and fraud cases to identify risk-separating behaviors.
  • Manage the end-to-end resolution of client disputes, driving recovery efforts and implementing preventative policy updates.
  • Extract data using SQL and perform ad hoc analysis.
  • Develop machine learning models using tools such as Python.
  • Develop and manage strategies to mitigate fraud risk.
  • Develop and maintain reports to measure progress against strategic business goals.
  • Optimize prompts for LLM agents to automate the detection of high-risk behavior and generate actionable outputs.
  • Work with autonomy and be proactive in identifying opportunities.
  • Partner with underwriting, operations, analytics, portfolio strategy, customer experience, legal and compliance.

What We're Looking For

  • Sound knowledge of working with large datasets using SQL and Python.
  • Strong background in building, developing and maintaining reporting in Tableau.
  • A hands-on attitude with the ability to prioritize and multitask deliverables.
  • Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  • 3+ years of analytical experience in consumer or business lending, preferably in credit risk or fraud.

Technical Stack

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Tableau

Team & Environment

This role has high visibility within the underwriting team.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Medical, dental, vision, and commuter benefits.
  • Flexible time-off policy.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • 401k match for US employees.
  • Wellness reimbursement.
  • Volunteering days.
  • Annual professional development budget.
  • Charitable donation match.

Work Mode

This is a hybrid role open to candidates in the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada.

Forward Financing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to fostering a fair and inclusive culture built on a foundation of high performance and exceptional customer experience.

Required Skills
SQLPythonTableauData AnalysisFraud DetectionRisk AnalysisStatistical AnalysisData VisualizationReportingOperationsComplianceProblem SolvingCommunication
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Forward Financing

Forward Financing is a financial technology company on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. It provides fast, flexible funding to underserved small businesses, having delivered over $4.5 billion in funding to more than 87,000 small businesses since 2012.

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