Data Analyst, Fraud Rules - Financial Crime Systems & Intelligence.

Location/Office Policy: Central Park Leopardstown, Dublin

• Are you an analyst who can interpret data, reach conclusions & present insights?
• Are you process driven while using a systematic approach?
• Are you a strong communicator with the ability to present complex information?
  
  
  

What Is The Role

The Financial Crimes Systems and Intelligence Team is responsible for the management of fraud systems and delivering appropriate controls for the bank’s payment monitoring systems. The team are also responsible for fraud MI and reporting.

Your role will be to deliver intelligent, innovative, and insightful rules and models to identify payments fraud across our online channels. You will be placed in a fast moving and challenging environment, providing you scope to acquire payment knowledge along with data/information analysis experience.

Key Accountabilities.

As part of the management team in Fraud Systems & Intelligence, you will:

• Provide analysis, insights, and interpretation of multiple data feeds to identify potential fraudulent indicators and trends across payment systems by integrating large datasets.
• Apply statistical techniques to integrate multiple data points, uncover fraud patterns, and enhance detection capabilities.
• Understand the impacts and outputs for potential new controls on our fraud detection platforms including the impacts on Operational teams.
• Analysing performance and efficiency of existing rules and models making recommendations to reduce false positives without compromising the integrity of fraud checks.
• Be the Subject Matter Expert on AIB’s fraud detection application by providing technical advice and support to colleagues to assist them to identify options and resolutions to specific problems.
• Design and implement algorithms for linking, clustering, and pattern recognition using diverse attributes.
• Utilize insights from investigative teams to rapidly deploy new fraud detection methods.
• Lead collaboration with AIB's data science and technology teams to achieve shared objectives.
  
  
  

What You Will Bring.

AIB Brand Values

It is a given that the role holder will be a strong role model of the AIB Values: Drive Progress, Show Respect, Be One Team, Own the Outcome and Eliminate Complexity.

• Self-starter with drive to deliver and ability to work on own initiative and strong attention to detail, completing tasks to a very high degree of accuracy.
• Deep understanding of financially motivated cybercrime, including fraud trends and typologies with experience in defining and implementing fraud prevention strategies.
• Expertise in exploratory data analysis to detect patterns, trends, and anomalies is mandatory.
• Strong ability to clean and preprocess large datasets, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Proficiency in SQL for writing, managing, and optimizing complex queries and database structures - other related tools would be an advantage - Power BI, SAS, R Language, Tableau.
• Advanced Python skills, with experience in libraries and tools for string processing and pattern recognition is esssential.
  
  
  

Why Work For AIB

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include.

• Market leading Pension Scheme
• Healthcare Scheme
• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year
  
  
  

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

Behavioural Capabilities:

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Ensures Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
  
  
  

Technical Capabilities

• Data Analysis - Collects, analyses, and interprets data to reach conclusions and/or present insights and findings.
• Investigating and Reporting - Investigates incidents or issues to determine the cause, circumstances, and contributing factors; documents detailed findings and suggests and implements necessary resolutions.
• Technical Communication/Presentation - Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Process Improvement - Utilises a systematic approach to define, measure, analyse, improve and control process or system performance gaps through streamlining and cycle time reduction, and identification and elimination of causes of below specifications quality, process variation, and non-value-adding activities.
  
  
  

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact talent acquisition at ([email protected]) for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Disclaimer: (On external only)

Unsolicited CVs sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Application deadline: 20th of June 2025