# Senior Specialist, Fraud Attack Response & Insights - Europe

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Lisbon
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Specialist, Fraud Attack Response & Insights - Europe to join their team in Lisbon. The successful candidate will be responsible for fraud attack response and investigation, European fraud intelligence & insights, post-incident analysis and systemic remediation, and data & analytical capability.

The Senior Specialist, Fraud Attack Response & Insights – Europe, will combine transaction analysis, fraud expertise and market intelligence to determine how attacks occur, identify potential vulnerabilities or control gaps, and inform immediate and longer-term mitigation actions. The role will focus primarily on fraud attacks, emerging threats and trends affecting Mastercard customers and the payments ecosystem across Europe.

Key responsibilities include:

- Participating in high-impact fraud Threat Response Teams (TRTs) and other response activities involving European customers

- Analyzing significant attacks to identify patterns, methods, affected payment flows and potential control gaps

- Developing and testing hypotheses about attack vectors and contributing factors

- Providing timely investigative insights during active events and assessing the effectiveness of mitigation actions

- Developing deep knowledge of Europe’s fraud landscape, including significant attacks, emerging patterns and evolving threats

- Connecting intelligence across events to identify recurring attack methods, vulnerabilities and control gaps

- Producing concise, actionable insights for regional stakeholders, product teams, Standards and senior leadership

- Developing post-incident analyses documenting attack characteristics, findings, control observations, lessons learned and outstanding questions

- Supporting retrospectives following significant European fraud attacks

- Identifying recurring or systemic issues warranting broader investigation or remediation

- Analyzing multiple fraud and payment data sources to identify attack patterns and anomalies

- Defining analytical questions and data requirements needed to investigate suspected fraud vectors

- Working with data, product and technology partners to obtain and interpret information needed during investigations

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in payment fraud, fraud analytics, investigations, operations, intelligence or a related discipline, as well as strong knowledge of the European payments and fraud environment.

## Skills

### Required
- payment fraud
- fraud analytics
- investigations
- operations
- intelligence
- European payments
- fraud environment

### Nice to have
- experience within a payment network
- issuer
- acquirer
- bank
- fintech
- payment service provider
- financial-services organization
- experience investigating complex or coordinated payment fraud attacks
- experience with fraud monitoring
- transaction analytics
- authentication
- authorization
- payment-network data

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