Fraud Monitoring Analyst - Specialist (Finance)

At Equifax, a Fraud Monitoring Specialist will monitor, analyze, and investigate interactions to identify suspicious behavior or attempted fraudulent access to Equifax consumer-facing systems. This critical role executes on strategic fraud prevention and detection solutions to minimize risk and exposure of Equifax data. Additionally, at this level, this position plays a critical role in providing direction, leadership, and training in support of Fraud Monitoring related activities.

• This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.
• This position can be based in Alpharetta, GA. This resource should be local to Atlanta and will be required to work from our Alpharetta location.
• Corporate Return To Office expectations: Onsite weekly requirements each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each week.

What you will do:

• Maintain awareness and knowledge of fraud trends within the industry and provide industry fraud trend education to Security team
• Maintain investigation standards and processes that are aligned with regulatory requirements, client contractual obligations, and industry best practices
• Provide leadership and take lead in reporting investigative findings in a clear and concise manner to security leadership and when appropriate provide recommendations to mitigate any potential risk of future similar fraud schemes
• Represent Equifax's Investigative processes to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and sufficiently address any gaps or concerns that might be identified during any future examinations or other similar inquiries
• Testify under oath, in a deposition, in an affidavit or before any court of law or regulator body on behalf of Equifax as may be required on various matters regarding the investigations team or fraud investigations
• Establish and maintain industry and law enforcement contacts needed to effectively investigative areas of fraud and other criminal activity
• Remain current on legal matters impacting the investigations team/program
• Perform analysis of transactional data reports in order to observe evolving trends and identify emerging threats
• Review security monitoring systems and reports to identify suspicious patterns that warrant further investigation
• Establish reporting and recommendations to help neutralize advanced threats that might evade existing controls
• Provide ongoing recommendations and results of current high risk behaviors and alerts as changes occur, so that security conditions and rules can be modified or developed to keep up with the changing threat landscape
• Develop key performance indicators across the Fraud organization to drive efficiencies and automation.
• Explore new Security technologies through testing, rating, reporting and recommend on best potential solutions for the current environment.

What experience you need:

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, security discipline or related degree.
• 7+ years experience across fraud detection response, fraud security data analysis, or other fraud related positions.
• Minimal of 2 years experience in fraud related investigations
• Experience leading fraud detection response and/or investigations activities
• Experience working with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) related to fraud activities.
• Is current on legal matters impacting the investigations team/program
• Strong skills using some of the following data, reporting, and visualization tools (Google Data Studio, Tableau, Power Bi or others)
• Experience developing fraud related report results to large audiences across internal communities, external organizations at all levels (executive level included)

What could set you apart:

• ACFE Certification preferred
• CyberSecurity Certification
• Analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Experience working in cloud environments
• Google App expertise (Doc, Sheets, Slides, etc)

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