Card Fraud Detection/Cheque Fraud -SME/TL
Cognizant · Hyderabad
- Company
- Cognizant
- Type
- Job
- Work mode
- On-site
- Location
- Hyderabad
- Posted
- 30 Oct 2026
About this job
Cheque Fraud Role & responsibilities
Domain: Banking / Financial Services Enterprise Fraud
Shift: Flexible / US / Rotational Shifts as per business requirement/ Rotational week-off
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Candidates Cheque fraud or Deposit review fraud responsible for managing day-to-day fraud detection activities across the portfolio
- Investigate suspicious Incoming and outgoing cheque.
- Monitor and resolve outstanding fraud alerts and ensure timely alert disposition.
- Document findings and actions taken in accordance with internal protocols.
Key Responsibilities
-Make critical decisions regarding cheque holds, processing delays, and risk mitigation measures.
- Strong understanding of fraud alerts, fraud decisioning, customer authentication and card blocking processes.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to interpret fraud patterns, operational metrics and trend data.
- Strong people-management and coaching skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage high-volume and time-sensitive fraud operations.
- Strong stakeholder-management and escalation-handling skills.
Required Qualifications
Associate or bachelors Degree, preferably in field of Accounting, Finance Math or Statistics
Certification such as ACAMS or CFE, or any local fraud certification, will provide a competitive advantage.
Card Fraud Detection Role & responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced Team Leader Card Fraud Detection Operations responsible for managing day-to-day fraud detection activities across Credit and Debit Card portfolios.
The role will be accountable for team performance, fraud-loss prevention, alert management, customer protection, quality, productivity, SLA adherence, workforce utilization and effective people management. The Team Leader should possess strong knowledge of card-fraud typologies, fraud-detection systems and real-time fraud decisioning.
Key Responsibilities
Lead a team of Fraud Analysts/Senior Analysts handling real-time and non-real-time fraud alerts
- Ensure analysts perform appropriate customer/account review before making fraud decisions.
- Guide analysts on complex or high-value fraud cases and provide real-time decision support.
- Ensure appropriate actions including transaction decline, card block, account restriction, card replacement, customer verification and escalation are taken as per procedures.
- Monitor fraud queues and ensure alerts are handled within defined SLA and turnaround times.
- Manage workload allocation across shifts based on volume and business priorities.
- Identify unusual fraud spikes, compromised merchants, BIN attacks, high-risk geographies and emerging fraud trends.
- Escalate significant fraud events and emerging patterns to Fraud Risk, Strategy and Management teams.
- Provide operational feedback to Fraud Strategy teams for potential rule tuning and false-positive reduction.
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