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.






