Purpose

The Senior Fraud Detection Analyst is responsible for preventing and minimizing losses to the Bank resulting from fraudulent activity on Payment cards and deposit accounts. This is achieved by working alerts generated by fraud monitoring systems and/or batch reports, analyzing activity/trends, reviewing previous activity and contacting customers, Branches and other FI’s to determine if the account has been compromised and if proactive measures are necessary to block the account from further use.

Responsibilities

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Detect and prevent fraudulent activity with respect to the Bank’s credit cards, debit cards, ScotiaOnline, Email Money Transfers, Western Union, and deposit fraud.
• Analyzing alerts generated by various fraud detection tools and assessing the probability that fraud is occurring.