Business Analyst, Payments and Fraud

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Posted Sep 25, 2026

Remote · US · ask about Worldwide Full Time
$90K – $147K/yr

Overview

This role drives performance, insight, and continuous improvement across the payments and fraud function through deep technical analytics. You will support Payments & Fraud by strengthening performance monitoring, scalable reporting, and data-driven optimization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Payments & Fraud Analytics

  • Support and enhance development of payments and fraud KPIs, performance reporting, and post-launch analysis of new payment features and experiments
  • Write and optimize SQL queries to uncover trends, anomalies, and revenue opportunities
  • Translate complex data into clear, actionable recommendations for business leaders
  • Build and maintain dashboards to monitor fraud trends, payment declines, and overall payment health

Fraud Strategy & Decisioning Support

  • Provide analytical support to improve fraud detection and decision workflows
  • Evaluate fraud rule performance, monitor alerts, and recommend data-driven improvements
  • Conduct fraud trend analysis and recommend mitigation strategies

Payment Optimization & Revenue Protection

  • Analyze payment decline drivers and develop decline salvage and optimization opportunities
  • Support initiatives related to account updater, retry strategies, and processor performance
  • Identify opportunities to reduce operational costs and losses while improving authorization rates

Team Support & Collaboration

  • Communicate performance insights, root cause analysis, and mitigation strategies across teams
  • Serve as the analytics and reporting extension of the Payments & Fraud team, delivering timely insights that inform decision-making, performance optimization, and strategic initiatives

Requirements

  • Highly analytical, meticulous, and proactive, with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving, lean operational environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related field
  • 2+ years of experience in business analytics, preferably within payments and fraud
  • Strong SQL expertise and experience working with large, complex datasets
  • Proven ability to deliver business insights and performance-driven recommendations
  • Experience building dashboards and reporting in Tableau

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with card-not-present (CNP) subscription-based payments
  • Prior experience with Cybersource Decision Manager or similar fraud decisioning tools

Compensation & Benefits

  • Bonus program
  • Equity plans
  • 401K
  • Discretionary, merit-based salary increase once a year
  • 100% medical/dental/vision coverage
  • Unlimited employee PTO
  • Offers include a base salary, participation in a company bonus program, stock options, and comprehensive benefits; final offer will depend on multiple factors including marketplace competition, job leveling, and the candidate’s experience and skills

Location

Flexible work locations.

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