Sr. Analyst, Anomaly Detection Platforms

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

This position will support the Anomaly Detection Platforms team and help drive several of Visa’s most important and high-visibility fraud deterrence projects within Global Risk’s Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) team. This fast-paced team of technology experts identifies, investigates, disrupts and prevents attacks targeting the global payment ecosystem. Key measures of success for this position include the ability to develop and automate key attack intelligence capabilities that optimize detection of fraudulent anomalies, the development of advanced metrics that evaluate the fraud risk of key clients, and rapid analysis of external data compromise events that mitigate monetization. This role’s initiatives will lead to the measurable decrease of cybercrime and fraud attacks impacting Visa clients. The primary responsibilities for this role will include:

• Lead the design and production deployment of new and advanced techniques to recognize and prevent cybercrime – to include point-of-sale (card present/card not present) terminal fraud, anomalous cross-border volumes, Purchase Return Authorization fraud, data manipulation attacks, and ATM Cashouts.
• Manage fraud alerting taxonomies and thresholds that optimize true positive detections and fraud scheme coverage.
• Analyze complex financial data to uncover patterns, anomalies, and insights that support risk assessment and fraud identification.
• Collaborate closely with issuing and acquiring clients to understand their specific risk and fraud challenges, providing expert guidance and tailoring solutions to their needs.
• Provide data analysis and response to alerts relative to significant fraud events.
• Continuously question and consider new techniques to stay ahead of organized cyber criminals and fraudsters. 
• Assist in the coordinated compilation and delivery of fraud reporting, briefings, and other related communication products to Visa management.
• Collaborate with Technology partners to enhance fraud detection capabilities for improved insights and pattern detection.
• Create new processes related to real time alerting to help protect the payment ecosystem.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop customized monitoring solutions to enable clients take proactive action to fraud threats.
• Provide intelligence and technical analysis support to the Global Risk organization to further protect the payment ecosystem.
• Assist the Sr. Director of the Risk Operations Center (ROC) in establishing the roles of the analyst and what they should and should not be assisting with.
• Create training documentation for the Risk Operations Center.
• Communicate openly with the ROC and act as an SME and point of escalation.
• Develop a plan to partner and gather intelligence details from acquirers for all source analysis.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• 5 years’ experience in payment card or information security industry, investigating payment card, cybercrime fraud / red team testing or bachelor’s degree in strong technical area with some real-word experience (e.g., internship)
• Moderate understanding of networks, risk management, network security, digital forensics, and security operations
• Ability to conduct complex analytical functions by performing fraud assessments and analyzing criminal methods.
• Knowledge of transactions,