Threat and Analytics Lead

The role

The Threat & Analytics Lead builds a data-driven understanding of fraud and financial crime risk. You will analyze large, complex datasets to identify patterns, trends, and risk concentrations across the customer lifecycle.

What you will do

• Build a data-driven understanding of fraud and financial crime risk
• Analyze large, complex datasets to surface patterns, trends and risk concentrations
• Measure how well existing controls are working
• Identify where prevention and detection need to get stronger
• Inform strategy and investment prioritization through evidence and insights
• Work with Product, Engineering, Operations and Data Science teams
• Analyze fraud prevention, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening and customer risk management

Required qualifications

• Strong analytical capability
• Confident working with large datasets using SQL, Python and BI tools
• Experience applying statistical and analytical techniques to large datasets to identify patterns, measure performance and assess risk
• Able to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and influencing without direct ownership
• Take ownership of problems and drive work through to completion
• Comfortable working toward a high level organisational KPI and independently developing and validating hypotheses

Nice to have

• Experience analysing fraud or financial crime data in payments, fintech or financial services industries
• Experience working closely with Product, Engineering or Data Science teams
• Experience building or scaling analytical functions

Benefits

• Wellbeing support and medical cover
• Meal voucher or paid lunch when working from the office
• Work away scheme for up to 20 working days in any 12-month period
• Adaptive Working
• Parental leave
• Annual learning budget
• Generous holiday allowance
• Volunteer days for ERG events
• One day off if you need to move house

About the company

GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. They handle recurring and one-off payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking.