Lead Business Analyst

Job Description

Blend is seeking a Fraud Analytics Lead Analyst to support fraud strategy and analytics across our financial services clients. In this role, you will leverage data to identify fraud trends, uncover emerging risks, and develop strategies that help prevent fraud across the payments lifecycle.

You will work in a highly collaborative, data-driven environment, partnering with fraud, risk, analytics, and technology teams to improve fraud detection, reduce losses, and strengthen controls against evolving fraud threats.

What You'll Be Doing

• Analyze large datasets to identify fraud trends, patterns, and emerging risks across payment and card portfolios.
• Develop and support fraud risk strategies across the full fraud lifecycle, including application fraud, synthetic identity fraud, and account takeover.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights that drive fraud prevention strategies and business decisions.
• Partner with Fraud Policy, Operations, Risk, and Technology teams to implement, optimize, and enhance fraud decision strategies.
• Support the testing, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of fraud decision systems.
• Create reports, dashboards, and analytical insights to measure strategy performance and identify optimization opportunities.
• Assist with fraud model monitoring, validation, and performance evaluation within production environments.
• Document analyses, findings, and recommendations, and present insights to business partners and senior leadership.