Enterprise Payment Fraud Strategist

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Position Details: Title: Enterprise Payment Fraud Strategist Department: Accounting/Finance Reports to: Director, Treasury Location: Dearborn Job Classification: Hybrid FLSA Status: Exempt Job Band: Professional Job Summary The Enterprise Payment Fraud Strategist role is responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing the organization’s fraud prevention strategy across customer/consumer payment channels and global payment platforms. This role leads efforts to mitigate fraud losses while balancing customer/consumer experience, sales conversion, and operational efficiency. The position partners closely with internal stakeholders across Customer/consumer Service, Cyber Security, IT, Finance, eCommerce, Digital Product, Legal/Compliance, and Operations, as well as external payment processors, issuers, acquirers, fraud solution providers, and other payment ecosystem partners. This role owns the fraud strategy framework for customer/consumer payments, including fraud controls, detection rules, manual review processes, chargeback mitigation, monitoring, loss reporting, and performance measurement. The Enterprise Payment Fraud Strategist role is also responsible for establishing key fraud metrics and KPIs, analyzing fraud trends, evaluating the total cost of fraud, and recommending strategies that reduce risk while supporting business growth. Inspired by Hard Work At Carhartt, the values of hard work—dependability, honesty, and trust—are rooted in the legacy of our founder, Hamilton Carhartt. His commitment to serving hardworking people continues to inspire everything we do. Guided by his legacy and our mission—We serve and protect all hardworking people by building durable products—we remain dedicated to upholding these principles in every decision we make and every product we create. Associate Responsibilities • Develop and own the enterprise fraud strategy for customer/consumer payment activity across all relevant sales channels. • Establish the fraud strategy framework including risk-based decisioning principles, control philosophy, and performance objectives. Oversee the investigation and remediation of fraud incidents ensuring timely escalation to senior management and drive long-term resiliency strategies. • Establish and maintain a risk-based fraud operating model that balances fraud mitigation with customer/consumer experience, order approval rates, and revenue preservation. • Define fraud risk appetite, governance structure, and escalation protocols in partnership with leadership. • Own the external fraud ecosystem strategy, including selection and strategic oversight of payment processors, fraud tools, and partners. • Lead strategic partner discussions on fraud trends, authorization performance, and emerging risk mitigation approaches. • Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for customer/consumer payment fraud and align stakeholders across business, technology, and risk functions. • Assess fraud risk for new business initiatives, payment methods, and system changes, and define required controls prior to implementation. • Define and oversee fraud performance measurement framework including KPIs, loss metrics, and value-based outcomes. • Analyze fraud trends, emerging threats, and macro patterns to drive strategic risk mitigation decisions. • Prepare executive-level insights and recommendations on fraud risk exposure, financial impact, and strategic priorities. • Ensure alignment of fraud strategy with regulatory expectations, payment network rules, and internal risk management standards. Required Education • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Criminal Justice, Forensics, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or a related field. Required Skills & Experience • 8-10 years of progressive experience in fraud risk management, payments risk, eCommerce fraud, chargeback/dispute management, or a related discipline. • Demonstrated experience developing or managing fraud strategies, controls, and performance metrics in a customer/consumer payments environment. • Experience partnering cross-functionally with business, technology, operations, and external third-party providers. • Strong analytical experience using fraud data, transaction trends, chargeback data, and operational metrics to drive decisions and recommendations. • Experience preparing reporting, dashboards, and executive-level presentations related to fraud performance and financial impact. • Experience in retail, eCommerce, omnichannel, consumer payments, or card-not-present environments. • Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills. • Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. Preferred Skills & Experience • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) – strong credential for fraud risk, investigations, and fraud program knowledge. • Accredited Payments Risk Professional (APRP) – valuable for payment risk and payments ecosystem knowledge. Physical Requirements and Working Conditions • Normal office environment; cubicle/office setting. Extended periods of time sitting, standing, typing on a computer is required. • This position has a Hybrid location: Associate will work on-site regularly as needed for work activities. • Carhartt is a tobacco free workplace. #LI-HYRBID We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All associates are required to understand and act in accordance with the Carhartt Core Values. Carhartt reserves the right to change, modify, suspend, interpret or cancel in whole or in any part, the job duties outlined above at any time and without advance notice to the employee.