Job Description

Job Title:

Senior Card Fraud Investigator

Location:

CityScape

What youll do:

The Senior Card Fraud Investigator is responsible for mitigating losses to Western Alliance Bank (WA) and its customers by identifying preventing and recovering funds targeted by fraudulent activity. This position involves frequent interaction with internal and external business partners including Human Resources Law Enforcement Legal and other areas. This position requires experience conducting complete investigations and reporting fraud events as appropriate. This position will also assist with investigations concerning internal threats and external threats and developing partnerships with investigators for other financial institutions and law enforcement partners.

• Monitor inbound fraud case referrals and initiate cases within the fraud management database tool. Ability to create clear and concise case reports to document the activity.
• Manage cases created to track fraud events including recoveries losses and other correspondence with multiple business lines in the Bank.
• Refer cases to the Financial Crimes Compliance AML team for appropriate filings.
• Refer cases to law enforcement partners for prosecution and potential recoveries.
• Work with other financial institutions for the purposes of preventing fraud and recovering funds.
• Work proactively with the Fraud Monitoring team to investigate alerting transactions.
• Work proactively with other business lines to investigate physical security and corporate security investigations pertaining to insider and outsider threats to the Bank.
• Must have an ability to investigate fraud incidents thoroughly and report them timely and completely.
• Assist with projects regulatory examinations internal audits and other tasks as assigned.
• Escalate operational deficiencies as needed and assist with solving the issues.
• Educate other working lines within the Bank with regard to reporting and identifying fraud events.

What youll need:

• 4 years of related experience in fraud investigations financial crime investigation or similar field. Additional experience with Commercial Banking Mortgage Fraud or Digital Currency preferred.
• High school diploma required; Bachelors degree in related field preferred.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations including deposit operations loan administration treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations rules and regulations industry standards and practices.
• Advanced BSA/AML/KYC regulations and best practices etc. Knowledge of transaction types across the spectrum of commercial and consumer products (deposit lending ACH ATM RDC and correspondent banking).
• Advanced knowledge in customer authentication and security protocols desired as well as experience with fraud operations and fraud strategy.
• Experience with payment return guidelines as well as Reg E claims Identity Theft Electronic Payments Elder Financial Exploitation FinTech and Cyber Crime events.
• Advanced BSA/AML transaction monitoring and/or case management software.
• Ability to complete international investigations internal investigations and review account activity for unusual activity.
• Ability to conduct analytical research complete comprehensive reports from the research and demonstrate an aptitude for problem solving.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment to ensure the meeting of team deadlines.
• CFE and/or ACAMS certifications preferred.
• Intermediate speaking and writing communication skills.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Benefits youll love:
We offer all the important things youd want like competitive salaries an ownership stake in the company medical and dental insurance time off a great 401k matching program tuition assistance program an employee volunteer program and a wellness addition youll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona Alliance Association Bank Bank of Nevada Bridge Bank First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race sex color religion age nation origin marital status disability protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying please email or call . When contacting us please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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