Authorization and Fraud Consultant
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**Responsibilities:** * Develop a deep understanding of the bank’s credit card portfolio, including customer segments, spend behavior, and lifecycle performance * Drive authorization optimization strategies to improve approval rates across the issuing portfolio while maintaining risk thresholds * Analyze authorization declines (codes, patterns, drivers) and identify opportunities to reduce false declines and enhance customer experience * Collaborate with fraud and risk teams
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Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of the bank’s credit card portfolio, including customer segments, spend behavior, and lifecycle performance
- Drive authorization optimization strategies to improve approval rates across the issuing portfolio while maintaining risk thresholds
- Analyze authorization declines (codes, patterns, drivers) and identify opportunities to reduce false declines and enhance customer experience
- Collaborate with fraud and risk teams to optimize fraud rules and controls without negatively impacting genuine transaction approvals
- Monitor and report on key issuing KPIs: approval rates, decline rates, fraud rates, and portfolio performance metrics
- Provide data-driven insights and analytics to support decision-making across cards business, risk, and operations teams
- Enhance reporting dashboards (MIS) for issuing portfolio, focusing on authorization performance and fraud trends
- Act as the interface between client and issuer stakeholders (cards business, risk, fraud, operations), ensuring alignment on initiatives and outcomes
- Support implementation of authorization and fraud optimization use cases and recommendations within the issuing environment
- Establish governance cadence with stakeholders to track performance, outcomes, and ongoing enhancements
- Coordinate with client teams to incorporate best practices and global insights into the issuing portfolio
- Ensure effective knowledge transfer and capability building within the bank’s cards and fraud teams
Requirements
- Mandatory: Worked in a bank and has good understanding of cards business, authorization and fraud systems
- 10–12 years of experience in cards issuing, fraud risk, and authorization management
- Strong understanding of credit cards issuing business lifecycle (activation, usage, retention, spend growth)
- Proven experience managing authorization strategies and fraud controls in issuing environments
- Familiarity with fraud and auth platforms
- Ability to translate analytics into actionable portfolio-level interventions
- Experience working closely with cards business teams (not just acquisition/sales)
- Strong stakeholder management across risk, fraud, and cards portfolio teams
- Awareness of SAMA regulations around fraud reporting & liability
- Experience in local market fraud trends (KSA/GCC)
- Understanding of compliance vs business trade-offs
- Relevant: 10-12 years of experience in fraud
Application Question(S)
- Have you Worked in a bank and have understanding of cards business, authorization and fraud systems?
- How many years of experience in cards issuing, fraud risk, and authorization management
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