Senior Analytics Manager - Fraud

Overview

£600-650 per day Inside IR35 — emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

Hybrid Working - 3 days on site, London

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients — we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues, which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking a Senior Analytics Manager to play a pivotal role in fraud risk management within a fast-paced financial services environment. This role focuses on leveraging data-driven analysis to detect emerging fraud trends, enhance risk controls, and strengthen our first line of defense. You will deliver actionable insights to senior stakeholders and contribute to building a robust fraud risk framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead in-depth analysis of structured and unstructured data to monitor fraud risk performance and identify emerging fraud trends.
• Deliver clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders based on analytical findings.
• Perform independent control testing and process reviews to assess the effectiveness of fraud prevention and detection measures.
• Conduct independent consumer sample testing to validate fraud outcomes and controls.
• Analyse fraud-related policies, rules, and detection logic to identify gaps and emerging risks.
• Collaborate with fraud strategy, engineering, data science, customer service, and operations teams.
• Support regulatory and risk reporting with high-quality analytical input.
• Partner with first-line stakeholders to continuously improve the fraud risk framework.
• Stay ahead of external fraud vectors, market developments, and evolving fraud methodologies.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in fintech, banking, or consulting, with exposure to fraud and/or risk management.
• Exceptional analytical skills, with proven ability to independently analyse complex datasets.
• Strong experience in performing data-driven fraud analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to lead fraud risk initiatives through insight and analysis.
• Experience conducting independent control testing and process reviews.
• Strong understanding of risk management and regulatory expectations.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in rapidly changing or high-growth fintech environments.

Desirable

• Professional certifications such as CFE, CRCMP, or equivalent.
• Experience with machine learning models or fraud detection algorithms.
• Background in consumer lending or card fraud.
• Ability to design solutions to complex analytical problems under real business constraints.

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on: providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose; promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development; providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model; investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development; autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise; providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

What we build

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and building lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds. If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately. Our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.”