Job Description

About Us:

Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn\xe2\x80\x99t from traditional lenders.

Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people\xe2\x80\x99s lives today, as it did when it was founded.

Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.



As a senior analyst within the fraud analytics team, you will be responsible for the management of fraud rulesets across applications, as well as supporting management of rulesets in payments and transactions. Your focus would be preventing identity fraud losses across the Group, while minimising the false-positive rate of any application referrals. As the bank migrates more data to the cloud, you will use advanced coding skills to transform the way that the team conducts fraud analysis.

In your day to day, you will:

Managing fraud risks and customer impact, through the control of application rule sets (Hunter, Detect, Emailage).
Expected to coach, mentor and deliver technical guidance to other analysts within the team.
Key fraud industry contact and representative on fraud intelligence forums, maximising use of external data and collaborative opportunities with peers across the industry.
Devise and maintain management insight on the application fraud trends and losses.
Perform highly advanced analysis into fraud trends across the wider industry. Propose new fraud rules, technology and methods to combat these trends and reduce loss to the bank.

Hours are 37.5 per week Monday to Friday 9am \xe2\x80\x93 5:30pm with a flexible approach. The expectation is to come into office 1 day per week.

Qualifications

Essential

Strong experience in using SQL or SAS (or similar coding language).
Demonstrable analytical/numerate ability through a degree or equivalent experience.
Proficient with all standard Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable

Prior experience within a fraud role is advantageous but not essential.

Why Vanquis Banking Group?

Our colleagues are the most important part of delivering our purpose to put customers on a path to a better everyday life. If it wasn\xe2\x80\x99t for their amazing efforts, ideas and energy we wouldn\xe2\x80\x99t be the successful business that we are today. So we offer an attractive, generous salary and benefits package for everyone including:

Generous base salary and rewards
Discretionary bonus scheme
25 days holiday entitlement \xe2\x80\x93 with one day accrued for each year of service (to max 30 days)
Defined contribution pension scheme
Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
Flexible and dynamic working policies
A range of initiatives offered through our Sports & Social and Social Impact Programmes
Perks at Work - A perks platform offering over 30,000 unique discounts
Free tea, coffee and fruit
Discounted gym membership
Subsidised on-site restaurants

Find out more

Check out our social media channels find out more about everyday life at Vanquis \xe2\x80\x93 and don\xe2\x80\x99t forget to follow us while you\xe2\x80\x99re there!

LinkedIn: Vanquis Bank
Instagram: @vanquisbank
Glassdoor: Vanquis Bank

Good luck!

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We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we\xe2\x80\x99re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

We\xe2\x80\x99re an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they\xe2\x80\x99re given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We\xe2\x80\x99ve also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.

We think that if you can Be Yourself in the workplace, you\xe2\x80\x99ll do your best work and enjoy being part of the team. And as a business we get to benefit from that and to celebrate all the wonderful things that diversity brings.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Vanquis Bank