Fraud Prevention Lead (Identity & Account Security)

Alexander Barnes is looking for a Fraud Prevention Lead (Identity & Account Security)

Job description

Alexander Barnes is leading the search for a Fraud Prevention Lead, Identity & Account Security for one of the fastest growing FinTechs globally.


This role owns identity-linked fraud prevention across a large-scale digital banking and payments environment.


The scope includes:

  • Account Takeover and credential abuse
  • Authentication and login attacks
  • Session hijacking and identity theft
  • APP-linked account compromise
  • Behavioural and device anomalies
  • Mule and coordinated abuse patterns


You’ll own fraud detection and prevention across onboarding, authentication, account lifecycle, and transaction flows.


The focus is real-time decisioning, behavioural detection, fraud signals, authentication controls, and scalable prevention systems.


The team is looking for someone with deep hands-on experience across ATO, Identity Abuse, Authentication Risk, Credential Fraud, Trust & Safety, or behavioural fraud prevention.


Strong understanding of:

  • Behavioural analytics
  • Device intelligence
  • MFA and recovery flows
  • Velocity frameworks
  • Rules and model-driven detection
  • Fraud decisioning systems


Strong SQL and Python capability is expected.


The environment is highly technical and highly cross-functional, working closely with engineering, ML, data science, product, and fraud teams to build scalable fraud prevention systems at platform level.

Extra information

Status
Open
Education Level
Secondary School
Location
City of London
Type of Contract
Full-time jobs
Published at
23-05-2026
Profession type
Accountancy
Full UK/EU driving license preferred
No
Car Preferred
No
Must be eligible to work in the EU
No
Cover Letter Required
No
Languages
English

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