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The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service.\n\nThe Opportunity:\n\nThe Risk Prevention Analyst is responsible for providing operational risk assessments leveraging fraud mitigation tools, focusing on analysis, design, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology associated with fraud mitigation strategies, call queue creation, monitoring, support, and management using quantitative methods to review data and increase efficiency, productivity, effectiveness and savings. Seeking a skilled Risk Analyst who will provide support for external clients and internal staff on fraud detection and prevention matters, inquiries, and solutions to meet client and business needs. Additionally, the role involves writing rules and creating custom solutions for clients, monitoring fraud for their client group, identifying risk exposure based on fraud trends and data, and determining mitigation measures. This role involves direct interaction with senior-level management at the financial institution and within Velera, as well as regular coordination with the Fraud Detection Work Center (FDWC), Velera Service Centers, multiple internal departments, and 3rd party vendor personnel.\n\nDay in the Life:\n\nDevelop and implement Fraud strategies leveraging transaction data (credit/debit cards), machine learning models and advanced analytics tools to mitigate fraud losses and maintain superior customer experience.\n\nManage and optimize existing strategies effectively controlling risks due to first party and third-party fraud. Design, tests and understand the risk and customer experience trade-offs. \n\nCoordinate the Risk Analytics team's tasks and ensure adherence to established turnaround times and SLAs; manage projects assigned to the team; Ensure quality of all team outputs.\n\nMaintain awareness of member client fraud trends and suggest internal procedure changes to Risk Analytics Manager to remain efficient.\n\nContinually supervise department workflow to ensure time-sensitive functions meet department standards.\n\nMaintains productive relationships with all internal stakeholders including Fraud Operations, Risk Management, Product, Retail, Finance as well as external vendors\n\nAdvise internal contacts on sensitive issues and recommend client procedures and new product developments.\n\nMaintains productive relationships with all internal stakeholders including Fraud Operations, Risk Management, Product, Retail, Finance as well as external vendors.\n\nCreate and deliver BI reporting to develop thorough reporting for senior leadership, boards, and examiners.\n\nWork closely with a designated client list to ensure efficient and effective fraud mitigation through various communication channels such as calls and emails.\n\nUses advanced business, analytical and technical knowledge to participate in discussions with cross functional teams to understand and collaborate on business objectives and influence solution strategies.\n\nTranslates recommendation into communication materials to effectively present to colleagues for peer review and mid-to-upper-level management. Incorporates visualization techniques to support the relevant points of the analysis and ease the understanding for less technical audiences.\n\nIdentifies and gathers the relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer and address the problem for the recommended strategy through testing or exploratory data analysis (EDA).\nIntegrates/transforms disparate data sources and resolves appropriate data hygiene techniques to apply.\n\nConsults external clients and internal staff on fraud detection and prevention matters, inquiries, and solutions to meet client and business needs. Writes rules, builds custom solutions for clients, and monitors fraud for their client group.\n\nIdentifies risk exposure associated with fraud trends that have the potential to cause financial losses and poor member experience in client portfolios to determine if mitigation measures are necessary.\n\nMonitor and analyze portfolio performance on an ongoing basis. Identify trends and conduct root-cause analysis to isolate key performance drivers and combine the insights with a data-driven approach to develop fraud defenses. \n\nLeverages knowledge of fraud prevention tools to consult with clients on their fraud and risk goals, review key fraud performance metrics, consult on available fraud tools, and recommend strategic means to minimize risk exposure and improve member experience.\n\nCollaborate with other internal teams to serve as client advocate for fraud and risk items and special projects or mitigations.\n\nEnsure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.\n\nResponsible for reporting risks identified to the appropriate team and/or management.\n\nAdditionally, responsible for managing, monitoring and reporting risks within your work area's scope, including, but not limited to Information Security risks.\n\nRegular and reliable attendance is required. Some on-call work is required.\n\nThis position may require early/late hours and availability during weekends to ensure client support on fraud monitoring or mitigation.\n\nBring innovative/out of the box thinking to solve problems and make recommendations. \n\nFunctional knowledge of common fraud patterns with endless curiosity to seek out anomalies and get to the core of a problem.\n\nThe ability to prioritize and make quick decisions under tight deadlines\n\nRemain current with industry and client fraud trends.\n\nPerform other duties as assigned.\n\nQualifications:\n\nBachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Economics or related field or combination of education and experience required.\n\nFive (5) years within the financial service industry required.\n\nThree (3) years professional experience in risk analytics, mitigating risk and/or fraud services required.\n\nPayments processing system knowledge preferred.\n\nExperience with, , Fraud Detection Work Center and/or FDR system experience required.\n\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills. Deep experience working with fraud detection strategies, rules tuning, and fraud modeling.\n\nStrong proficiency with SQL; Ability to analyze large, complex datasets and derive actionable insights.\n\nExperience with fraud orchestration and decisioning tools (e.g., DefenseEdge, Falcon, Advance Defense, Fraud Navigator) preferred.\n\nStrong understanding of fraud metrics, forecasting methods, and false positive/true fraud tradeoffs.\n\nExcellent problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into actionable insights.\n\nStrong communication skills – ability to communicate technical subject matter clearly and succinctly to other team members and financial institutions. \n\nProject management experience preferred.\n\nAbout Velera\nAt Velera, inclusion isn’t an initiative – it’s how we work. Guided by a people‑helping‑people philosophy, we cultivate a culture where every employee feels valued, respected and empowered to do their best work. We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and fostering meaningful connection across our teams. Through a remote‑first, flexible environment, we prioritize psychological safety, wellbeing and belonging so individuals and teams can collaborate to thrive. Together, we’re shaping a new era of secure, innovative solutions for the clients and communities we serve. Learn more about what it’s like to work at Velera.\nPay Equity$60,500.00 - $77,100.00 - $93,700.00 of salary range\n\nThe anticipated hiring range for this position is typically between the minimum and midpoint of the posted salary range; however, actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills and qualifications, education, internal equity, and overall business and budget considerations. Velera is committed to providing competitive compensation that reflects both individual role and responsibilities, individual performance, and market.\nGreat Work/Life Benefits!\nCompetitive wages\n\nMedical with telemedicine\n\nDental and Vision\n\nBasic and Optional Life Insurance\n\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\n\nMaternity, Parental, Family Care\n\nCommunity Volunteer Time Off\n\n12 Paid Holidays\n\nCompany Paid Disability Insurance\n\n401k (with employer match)\n\nHealth Savings Accounts (HSA) with company provided contributions\n\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA)\n\nSupplemental Insurance\n\nMental Health and Well-being: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)\n\nTuition Reimbursement\n\nWellness program\n\nBenefits are subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions\n\nVelera is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.\nVelera is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following \"EEO is the Law\" Poster. Velera will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information.\nVelera is an E-Verify Employer. Review the E-Verify Poster here. For information regarding your Right To Work, please click here.\nThis role is currently not eligible for sponsorship.\nAs an ongoing commitment to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities please contact a recruiter at for assistance.\nOriginally posted on Himalayas","description_format":"text","description_chars":10747,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Equity","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Cards & Card Issuing","Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Payment Processing & Gateways"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T14:28:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["seen:4","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":93700,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/velera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/velera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T11:51:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":18311,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4401},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4401"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvelera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvelera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvelera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/velera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvelera-risk-prevention-analyst-remote"}]}