Role Overview: • Drive timely & flawless execution on end-to-end delivery of project workstreams • Provide thought leadership and drive innovative and effective solutions to business problems • Ownership of overall timelines including coordination with partner teams • Effectively guide the team in unstructured problem-solving utilizing business acumen, sophisticated analytics and other tools. • Superior communication and presentation skills including upto senior management/C-suite at the client organization. • Build and leverage strong relationships with client organizations. • Explore additional opportunities and partnering with other teams to identify appropriate solutions for clients Key Responsibilities • Design, optimize, and monitor SMB and Consumer fraud strategies across Card-present (CP) and card-not-present (CNP) transactions, Identity and Synthetic fraud, first party fraud and account takeover fraud. • Develop and fine-tune rules-based and score-based strategies to balance fraud losses, false positives, and customer experience • Drive fraud loss reduction initiatives while maintaining approval and customer satisfaction KPIs • Perform root-cause analysis on fraud spikes, emerging attack patterns, and vendor performance issues • Identify emerging fraud trends such as BIN attacks, merchant breaches, synthetic identity-linked debit misuse, etc. Required Qualifications: • Master's degree in economics, mathematics, computer science/engineering, operations research or related analytics areas; candidates with BA/BS degrees in the same fields from the top tier academic institutions are also welcome to apply • 10+ years of experience in Fraud strategy (preferably in Payments, Merchant processing or similar business models) • Strong understanding of US payments fraud landscape • Experience related to on-boarding and transaction monitoring fraud strategies. • Required technical skills include familiarity with Hive, PySpark, SQL, Python, ML tools and tableau / other data visualization techniques Preferred Qualifications: • Familiarity with SMB fraud/risk typologies including Buyer and Seller side risk. • Ability to drive thought leadership to build real time Fraud solutions. • People Leadership experience. • Demonstrated leadership ability and willingness to take initiative. • Strong program management skills and ability to deal with ambiguous/use defined problems. • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, proficiency in executive level communications – creating slides, decks and building data dashboards