# Senior IT Fraud Analyst

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,900.00 - $196,300.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

As a Senior IT Fraud Analyst at WGU, you will help shape and mature an enterprise fraud program while protecting students, systems, and the organization from evolving fraud risks.

You will combine fraud expertise, investigative skills, security analytics, and technical knowledge to identify suspicious activity, strengthen detection capabilities, and build strategies that reduce fraud.

**Responsibilities:**

- Conduct complex fraud and security investigations using multiple signals and data sources to identify suspicious activity, patterns, and emerging risks.

- Develop and help drive fraud detection and prevention strategies across the organization.

- Build, tune, and improve fraud and security detections, alerts, correlation rules, and related detection content.

- Identify systemic fraud and security risks, root causes, control gaps, and opportunities for preventative improvements.

- Help stand up and mature fraud intelligence, detection, risk-scoring, and supporting technology capabilities.

- Partner across technical and business teams to share fraud signals, recommend safeguards, prioritize risks, and gain alignment on fraud-prevention initiatives.

- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to others while helping establish scalable fraud investigation and detection practices.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Fraud Management, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Criminal Justice, Business Administration, Risk Management, or a related field.

- 5 years of Fraud and Information Security experience.

- Experience with fraud and security industry standards and best practices, specifically with interpretation and implementation of those standards in a corporate environment.

- Relevant fraud security certifications (CISSP, GIAC, ISACA, CCSP, CFE, CFCS, etc.).

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- Fraud Management
- Cybersecurity
- Information Security
- Computer Science
- Information Systems
- Data Analytics
- Finance
- Accounting
- Criminal Justice
- Business Administration
- Risk Management

### Nice to have
- 10 years of Fraud or Information Security experience
- Experience recommending additional fraud or security requirements and safeguards
- Experience in an established fraud program, particularly within financial services, banking, or education

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