Sr Associate, Fraud Analytics (Fintech)

Location: Downtown Chicago office at the Merchandise Mart; hybrid schedule with in-office work on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday

Salary: USD $100,000–$130,000 per year, plus eligibility for an annual bonus

Company

hirify.global is a digital banking and consumer finance company developing financial products and services.

What you will do

• Develop and implement fraud rules, analytical strategies, predictive models, and hypothesis tests across credit card transaction channels.
• Build dashboards and monitor fraud KPIs using Databricks and other visualization tools.
• Develop unsupervised learning models, including clustering and K-means, to detect anomalies and segment complex datasets.
• Automate data pipelines for real-time fraud alerting and performance monitoring.
• Own processes that reduce fraud losses, measure strategy impact, and support production deployments.
• Present analyses and model behavior clearly to technical, non-technical, and senior management stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in technology, statistics, business analytics, or a related field, or comparable experience.
• 5+ years of analytical experience in consumer finance, lending, or banking, preferably involving identity or transactional fraud.
• 5+ years of experience using SQL, R, and Python for data analytics.
• Experience with statistics and machine learning modeling techniques.
• Strong quantitative, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently manage small to medium projects and translate analytical findings into implementable fraud strategies and rules.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD.
• Identity or transactional fraud experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment designed to balance collaboration and individual priorities.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
• 401(k) match and flexible time off.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and a post-parental-leave ramp-up program.
• Lunch allowance, office snacks, Summer Fridays, and social events.