Senior Risk Analyst, Fraud Program Management

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · Cottonwood Heights, UT · Member Service Delivery Strategy

This role focuses on monitoring and analyzing fraud key risk indicators (KRIs), risk appetite statement (RAS) metrics, and other enterprise fraud performance metrics within the First Line of Defense at SoFi. The Senior Risk Analyst will identify performance trends, emerging risks, support escalations, and deliver data-driven insights to leadership. Responsibilities include supporting program governance, documentation, strategy oversight, and cross-functional coordination. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, experience with risk assessment frameworks, and a deep understanding of fraud risk management in a banking or fintech environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Monitor and analyze Fraud Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) metrics, and other enterprise fraud performance indicators across products and business lines.
  2. Identify performance trends, emerging risks, and early warning signals across fraud domains including account takeover, transaction fraud, disputes, and fraud operations performance.
  3. Support the escalation and investigation of metric breaches, working with cross-functional teams to determine root causes and corrective actions.
  4. Produce regular risk reporting and executive summaries for fraud governance committees and leadership forums.
  5. Develop and maintain data-driven insights and dashboards to improve transparency into fraud risk performance across the enterprise.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in fraud analytics, risk management, or fraud program management.
  • Strong experience in leading projects, working cross-functionally, and influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Experience working with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver results
  • Experience in banking and/or fintech industry
  • Strong Knowledge of fraud prevention tools and techniques.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, experience with visualization tools (e.g., Tableau)
  • Familiarity with Python.
  • Strong experience creating scalable playbooks, reporting templates, and spreadsheet-based workflows to improve risk management processes and cross-functional coordination.
  • Highly self-directed, with demonstrated ability to think strategically, solve ambiguous problems, and independently drive initiatives from ideation through implementation.
  • Strong presentation and executive communication skills, including developing clear, concise materials for senior leadership and regularly presenting insights, recommendations, and progress updates.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Model Risk Management or Model Governance, a plus!
  • Advanced working knowledge of Python for process automation, including writing maintainable code, testing solutions independently, and preparing them for production.
  • Working knowledge

What the JD emphasized

  • fraud risk management
  • risk assessment frameworks
  • fraud analytics
  • risk management
  • fraud program management