FamilySearch Oral Genealogy Fraud Manager

Lehi, UT, United States (Hybrid)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

This leader will work on a team of individuals tasked with the design and creation of fraud operations processes and fraud detection systems.

The primary responsibility of the Fraud Prevention Manager will be to use sound reasoning and good judgment to prevent significant losses and protect the Church's investment in the African Oral Genealogy collection program.

Coordinates and manages the planning, creating, and implementing process to create Church products and services. This involves departmental and/or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new and revised products and services. These products usually consist of very large or complex sets of variables that may require the use of new resources. Projects managed are difficult and have a broad scope and often narrow time frame and have multiple departmental or global impacts.

Is responsible for seeing the project from initiation to delivery. Uses broad expertise or unique knowledge and acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.

• Defines and validates project scope and statements of work. Prioritizes activities within the statement of work.
  
  Identifies plans and schedules, detailed interfaces between projects, creates the activities communication and reporting plan. Ensures stakeholders are always informed of issues and status.
• Identifies and manages project risks or events that could seriously impact the successful completion of the work within scope, budget, and schedule.
• Interprets data, analyzes results using statistical techniques and provides ongoing reports.
• Develops and implements databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• Acquires data from primary or secondary data sources and maintains databases/data systems.
• Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets to prevent fraud.
• Works with management to prioritize business and information needs.
• Locates and defines new fraud prevention process improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics or statistics with 5-7 years of experience or a master’s degree and combination of education and experience. Needs at least 2 years of business experience with applied statistics in quality control, fraud prevention, or similar function.
• 2-3 years of project management experience
• Needs strong mathematical skills to help collect, measure, organize and analyze data.
• Must have technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining, and segmentation techniques.
• Needs knowledge of programming languages like SQL, R, MATLAB, and Python.
  4. Technical proficiency regarding database design development, data models, techniques for data mining, and segmentation.
• GRAPH machine learning experience.
• Must have knowledge of how to create and apply the most accurate statistical algorithms to data sets.
• Needs strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Must be adept at report writing and presenting findings.
• Must have project planning, organizing, communicating, team motivating and delegating skills.

Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world.

They are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this,…