Group-IB Analyst

Job Description & Accountabilities
The Fraud & Systems Optimization Analyst provides strategic oversight of the Group-IB System as a specialized consultant. This role is responsible for integrating advanced data analytics, fraud intelligence, and technical health monitoring to ensure system integrity, minimize operational noise (False Positives), and provide forensic insights into emerging threats.
Key Responsibilities
1. Fraud Intelligence & Trend Detection
• Conduct deep-dive analysis within the Group-IB System to identify emerging fraud patterns and market anomalies.
• Monitor global fraud developments to proactively update system logic against evolving criminal methodologies.
• Translate complex data sets into actionable intelligence to safeguard organizational and client assets.
2. System Fine-Tuning & Optimization
• Engineer and propose new Use Cases to enhance detection capabilities and adapt to changing data environments.
• Perform continuous Fine Tuning of system parameters to significantly reduce False Positive rates, ensuring high-precision alerting.
• Establish performance benchmarks by comparing current system efficiency against historical data to measure optimization success.
3. Forensic Investigation & Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Investigate “Missed Alerts” or undetected anomalies to identify gaps in current surveillance and detection logic.
• Conduct comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to determine why specific threats bypassed existing controls.
• Author detailed technical reports outlining vulnerabilities and providing strategic recommendations for system remediation.
4. System Continuity & Monitoring
• Maintain rigorous oversight of service continuity across a diversified tech stack, including Kibana, Grafana, and Jupyter.
• Utilize visualization tools (Grafana/Kibana) to monitor real-time system health and performance metrics.
• Leverage Jupyter for advanced data exploration, ensuring the scalability and reliability of analytical models.
5. Daily Alert Triage & Incident Investigation
• Perform high-level daily Alert Triage, prioritizing system-generated flags based on risk severity and potential impact.
• Execute rigorous daily analysis of all suspicious activities, identifying patterns that warrant deeper forensic review.
• Formulate and circulate comprehensive Case Briefs for suspected fraud incidents, ensuring timely communication and escalation to relevant stakeholders ∙
• This role operates on an on-call basis and requires availability outside of standard working hours when requested, to support critical incidents or urgent operational needs

Qualifications & Experience
Qualifications & Experience
∙ A minimum of 3–5 years of experience in fraud analytics, cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or a related field within a banking or financial sector environment.
∙ Hands-on experience with Group-IB or equivalent fraud detection and threat intelligence platforms.
∙ Demonstrated experience with data visualization and monitoring tools such as Kibana and Grafana, and analytical environments such as Jupyter Notebook.
∙ A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field.
∙ Professional certification such as Group-IB “Anti-Fraud Analyst” technical training or equivalent is a requirement.
∙ Certification in data analytics or threat intelligence is a plus.

Knowledge & Skills
Technical Skills:
∙ Strong knowledge of fraud intelligence frameworks, detection logic engineering, and use case development.
∙ Excellent ability to perform system fine-tuning and parameter optimization to reduce false positive rates and improve alerting precision.
∙ Proficiency in data visualization tools including Grafana and Kibana for real-time system health and performance monitoring.
∙ Experience utilizing Jupyter for advanced data exploration and analytical model development.
∙ Strong forensic investigation skills with demonstrated ability to conduct Root Cause Analysis on missed or bypassed alerts.
∙ Knowledge of global fraud trends, criminal methodologies, and their translation into system detection rules and controls.
∙ Familiarity with information security standards and frameworks such as SAMA CSF, and SAMA CFF.
Administrative Skills:
∙ Excellent organizational and coordination skills.
∙ Strong ability to manage work pressure and prioritize tasks effectively in a high-alert environment.
∙ Good documentation skills for technical reports, case briefs, and system performance records.
Management Skills:
∙ Good reporting and communication skills with the ability to present complex technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
∙ Ability to work collaboratively within cross-functional teams including Fraud Operations, IT, and Security teams.
∙ Good interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively at both technical and senior management levels.
∙ Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify subtle anomalies within large and complex datasets.

Behavioural Competencies
Core Behavioral Competencies

1. Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering ‘customer-centric’ solutions. The primary strategy enabler for BSF is customer experience – BSF’s mandate is strongly focused around delivering personalized customer experiences, therefore a customer focus mindset is essential at all levels.

2. Effectively Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Diving a unified focus towards achieving shared objectives in BSF and working cross functionally to strengthen cross-selling and achieve common results is critical.

3. Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. Given the transformation BSF is going through, talent across levels need to be able to exhibit an agile mindset in an environment where experimenting to find new solutions is valued and supported.

4. Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Regardless of the industry being highly regulated, BSF employees are excepted to catch up with the pace of changes & digital disruptions and exhibit a mindset of creating new and better ways for BSF to be successful.

5. Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments. To strengthen the performance-based culture in BSF and drive more effective results, holding self and others accountable is essential.

6. Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. With decision making getting decentralized in the bank, the ability to make quick and data-based decisions at all levels in a fast-paced and changing environment is essential to keep growing and reach organizational objectives.

7. Instils Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. Instilling trust and showing consistency between words and actions have been highlighted by the senior leadership as quality behaviors that have been creating a healthier environment in the bank and must be strengthened further.

Leadership Competencies

1. Drives Vision & Purpose: Painting a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action. It is important for the leaders to be able to drive BSF’s vision today and build energy and optimism in others to create a sense of what is possible for the organization’s future and engage the younger talent.

2. Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies. With the changes in the industry and market trends, it is important for functional leaders to be able to identify future strategies and cascade them to build relevant action plans.

3. Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals. Given that BSF is going through a digital transformation and is operating on new areas where resources are scarce, BSF leaders need to develop and enable their talent to deliver on the organization’s mandate/objectives.