Payments and Fraud Analyst
At Aristocrat, a world leader in gaming content and technology, the Payments, Fraud, and Risk Analyst plays a pivotal role in ensuring flawless payment performance, detecting fraud, managing risk, and optimising operations across its iLottery and iGaming businesses.
This role offers the opportunity to work closely with various teams and apply modern AI tools and techniques to improve analysis and detection capabilities. The analyst will be part of a world-class organisation that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
- Monitor key payment and risk metrics, including approval rates, transaction volumes, and fraud alerts.
- Analyze performance across clients, markets, payment methods, and risk indicators.
- Identify and investigate unusual trends, processing anomalies, and emerging threats.
- Use AI tools and machine learning techniques to improve fraud detection and risk analysis.
- Provide clear findings and recommendations to Payments leadership and collaborators.
- Generate consistent payment and fraud performance reports for iLottery and iGaming.
- Ensure data accuracy across internal systems and business intelligence tools.
- Develop and maintain reporting standards, controls, and validation procedures.
- Find opportunities for payment and fraud optimization and cost savings.
- Investigate payment incidents and fraud events, partnering with internal teams and service providers.
- Document root causes, corrective actions, and ongoing monitoring requirements.
- Support payment and fraud preparedness for new clients, markets, and providers.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Analytics, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. (required)
- 3+ years of experience in payments, financial services, fintech, gaming, e-commerce, transaction processing, or fraud/risk analytics. (required)
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, and data validation. (required)
- Experience working with business intelligence platforms like Power BI, Tableau, or Looker. (required)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and investigative skills. (required)
- Ability to identify data-quality issues and reconcile information across multiple sources. (required)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. (required)
- Ability to prioritize tasks effectively in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. (required)
- Interest in or experience with AI methods and approaches for data analysis and fraud detection. (required)
- Experience working directly with payment processors, acquiring banks, gateways, or ACH providers. (preferred)
- Comprehensive pay and benefits package designed to stay competitive in the market, support wellbeing, and recognise contribution.
- Pay-for-performance belief in rewarding individual impact.
- Potential eligibility for annual bonuses and incentives.
- Potential eligibility for health and wellbeing benefits.
- Potential eligibility for paid time off.
- Potential eligibility for retirement plans.
- Potential eligibility for insurance coverage.
- Potential eligibility for other local or statutory benefits.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.