About this role
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The role:
We are looking for a Fraud Model Analyst to join our Fraud Model Development team, with a focus on governance, oversight, and lifecycle management of third-party (vendor) fraud models. This role will be responsible for ensuring vendor models are compliant, well-documented, and effectively monitored within SoFi’s fraud ecosystem.
This role will partner closely with Fraud Model Development, Fraud Strategy, Product, Operations, and Engineering to establish consistent analytical frameworks for measuring fraud performance, evaluating model and strategy changes, and identifying opportunities to improve fraud detection while minimizing false positives and member friction.
The individual will use large-scale fraud, transaction, and member data to evaluate model and strategy performance, conduct statistical and diagnostic analyses, design and analyze experiments, and develop scalable monitoring and measurement frameworks. The role will also contribute to fraud model development initiatives through feature analysis, performance benchmarking, threshold analysis, and production model evaluation.
The ideal candidate has a strong analytical and statistical mindset, is comfortable working with complex datasets using SQL and Python, understands predictive model performance, and can translate analytical findings into clear recommendations for technical and business stakeholders.
What you’ll do:
The Fraud Model Analyst will help SoFi scale and govern vendor fraud models by:
Managing the end-to-end lifecycle of vendor fraud models, including onboarding, documentation, monitoring, and periodic reviewsPartnering with Model Risk Management (MRM), Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure adherence to governance and regulatory requirementsCoordinating with external vendors to obtain model documentation, technical details, and performance insightsAnalyzing model performance metrics (e.g., fraud capture, false positive rates, drift) and identifying risks or improvement opportunitiesInvestigating model behavior and data issues using SQL and internal datasets to support root cause analysisSupporting fraud model development initiatives by contributing to feature analysis, performance benchmarking, and strategy designCollaborating with Fraud Strategy, Data Science, and Engineering teams to int