Director, Fraud Ib Analytics

**Requisition ID**: 214305

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- Purpose_

Leads and oversees International Banking (IB) Fraud Analytics and Strategies ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed / delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

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Accountabilities_**:

- Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
- Lead the innovative fraud Proof-of-Concepts, and provide support on ongoing assessment of the fraud threat landscape and anticipation of risks and corresponding improvement of our strategies and capabilities.
- Provide guidance and train the local teams on analytics best practice for fraud strategy improvement.
- Assess existing analytics functions/tools and investigate new opportunities to develop new and enhance existing fraud detection capabilities utilizing Artificial Intelligence (eg. Machine Learning) and advanced statistical methodologies/modelling.
- Explore a variety of machine learning, statistical analytics and data mining techniques with the objective of improving our fraud strategy prediction capability.
- Contribute to the mitigation of fraud risk by leveraging machine learning and business expertise to advise the senior leadership.
- Maintain effective dialogue with internal technology and business partners on development, delivery, risk and trends.
- Utilize potentially silo-ed, irregular, and unstructured and external data and data warehouses to enable a consolidated view of information and drive behavior and predictive analytics.
- Support to create and manage the analytics strategic roadmap, including the introduction of machine learning, statistical modelling and other capabilities that will deliver meaningful data analysis and scoring.
- Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impact to the bank.
- Support the design and implementation of the overall fraud management strategic roadmap and future initiatives.
- Manage the fraud model governance and model performance monitoring.
- Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Creates an environment in which his/her team pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
- Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

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Dimensions_**
- People Manager
- Span of control will include the IB Advanced Fraud Analytics (+5 FTE)
- International Banking responsibility with all IB business units supported
- Be responsible for IB fraud losses
- Support Fraud technology roadmap and analytics tools (+/- 10 main systems)
- Lead the innovative fraud Proof-of-Concepts, support ongoing assessment of the fraud threat landscape and anticipation of risks and corresponding improvement of our strategies and capabilities
- Global Regulatory requirements around data and privacy

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Education / Experience _**
- Post-secondary degree in relevant STEM discipline (Computer Science, Electrical/Computer/Software Engineering, and Statistics/Mathematics) and/or 2+ years similar hands-on experience mandatory
- Specific bank and/or industry experience around Fraud models, advanced mathematics, machine learning, artificial intelligence
- Understanding Banking system/processes and general payments echo system
- Bilingual fluency in both English and Spanish is required
- Prior experience (at least 5 years) in fraud/risk related fields would be an asset
- Minimum experience
- Previous experience working as a people manager is required
- Must be self-motivated, energetic and results-oriented and be committed to adding value to the organization
- Creative, out-of-the-box thinker, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills
- Highly flexible and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
- Experience with Fraud prevention and strategies is an asset

Li-Hybrid

Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

ScotiaGBS is a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia created to support different processes of the Bank and the development an