Fraud Prevention Lead (Identity & Account Security)

Alexander Barnes is leading the search for a Fraud Prevention Lead, Identity & Account Security for one of the fastest growing FinTechs globally.

This role owns identity-linked fraud prevention across a large-scale digital banking and payments environment.

The scope includes:

• Account Takeover and credential abuse
• Authentication and login attacks
• Session hijacking and identity theft
• APP-linked account compromise
• Behavioural and device anomalies
• Mule and coordinated abuse patterns

You’ll own fraud detection and prevention across onboarding, authentication, account lifecycle, and transaction flows.

The focus is real-time decisioning, behavioural detection, fraud signals, authentication controls, and scalable prevention systems.

The team is looking for someone with deep hands-on experience across ATO, Identity Abuse, Authentication Risk, Credential Fraud, Trust & Safety, or behavioural fraud prevention.

Strong understanding of:

• Behavioural analytics
• Device intelligence
• MFA and recovery flows
• Velocity frameworks
• Rules and model-driven detection
• Fraud decisioning systems

Strong SQL and Python capability is expected.

The environment is highly technical and highly cross-functional, working closely with engineering, ML, data science, product, and fraud teams to build scalable fraud prevention systems at platform level.