Fraud Prevention Lead (Identity & Account Security)
Alexander Barnes is leading the search for a Fraud Prevention Lead, Identity & Account Security for one of the fastest growing FinTechs globally.
This role owns identity-linked fraud prevention across a large-scale digital banking and payments environment.
The scope includes:
- Account Takeover and credential abuse
- Authentication and login attacks
- Session hijacking and identity theft
- APP-linked account compromise
- Behavioural and device anomalies
- Mule and coordinated abuse patterns
You’ll own fraud detection and prevention across onboarding, authentication, account lifecycle, and transaction flows.
The focus is real-time decisioning, behavioural detection, fraud signals, authentication controls, and scalable prevention systems.
The team is looking for someone with deep hands-on experience across ATO, Identity Abuse, Authentication Risk, Credential Fraud, Trust & Safety, or behavioural fraud prevention.
Strong understanding of:
- Behavioural analytics
- Device intelligence
- MFA and recovery flows
- Velocity frameworks
- Rules and model-driven detection
- Fraud decisioning systems
Strong SQL and Python capability is expected.
The environment is highly technical and highly cross-functional, working closely with engineering, ML, data science, product, and fraud teams to build scalable fraud prevention systems at platform level.