Fraud Data Analytics Consultant

About the engagement

Capitex is a specialist Financial Crime Compliance talent provider. We are engaging a consultant-level Fraud Data Analyst for a 6-month engagement at the centre of a leading regional bank's 24/7 digital fraud operation - a build-phase environment where the data and analytics layer is being created, not inherited.

This is a 6-month consultancy engagement with a defined delivery model: the first two months are delivered fully remotely from the UK, and from Month 3 the role relocates onsite to the bank's offices in Kuwait City for the remainder of the term. Onsite presence in Kuwait from Month 3 is a firm requirement of the role, not a preference - please only apply if you are genuinely able and willing to relocate for the onsite phase. Working pattern is standard bank hours, Sunday to Thursday, with start-time flexibility for UK-based delivery during the remote phase.

The role

You will be the senior data capability of the fraud operation - a consultant, not a colleague: expected to own the analytics agenda, drive it forward, and mentor the bank's own analysts as you do. The operation runs a modern fraud estate spanning behavioural biometrics on the digital channels, an enterprise card fraud monitoring platform, a newly implemented fraud case management system, and the bank's core and online banking data. Your job is to make that estate speak: correlate data across all of it, find the fraud patterns, and convert what you find into detection.

What you will do

• Query, extract and correlate data across multiple systems and databases - digital channel telemetry, card fraud alerts, case management records, core and online banking data - to identify fraud patterns, emerging typologies and detection gaps.
• Convert analysis into action: build the evidence base for new and tuned detection rules, and deliver concrete rule recommendations to the operation's rule-writers, with measured impact on false positives and detection rates.
• Design and build the dashboards, views and management reporting on rule performance, alert outcomes and fraud losses that the operation's leadership runs on.
• Take a central role in the bank's new Microsoft Fabric data lake programme - designing and building the fraud analytics layer on it over the coming months.
• Mentor and upskill the bank's own analyst team - knowledge transfer is an explicit and valued part of this seat, including through the operation's pairing arrangements.
• Support post-incident and thematic reviews with data deep-dives, working alongside the team's L1/L2 analysts and senior fraud investigator.

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