Jobs at Avant

Leads a team of complex fraud investigators, providing coaching, performance management, and operational oversight. Handles escalated fraud investigations involving fraud rings and account manipulation, applies pattern analysis and policy interpretation, and partners with Legal and Compliance. Owns cross-functional projects to improve fraud operations, reduce customer friction, allocate resources, and enhance scalability using data-informed strategies and tools such as SQL.

Provides legal guidance on privacy, AI governance, intellectual property, data protection, and consumer litigation. Advises product, risk, technology, data, and compliance teams on financial privacy laws, automated decision-making, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, and disputes. Manages outside counsel, litigation matters, IP strategy, legal budgets, regulatory developments, and cross-functional risk mitigation. Requires substantial experience in privacy, IP, litigation, and regulated consumer financial services or technology environments.

Develops fraud rules, models, dashboards, and strategies to reduce fraud losses. Analyzes emerging fraud trends, monitors KPIs, conducts ad hoc analysis, supports production deployments, and communicates findings to technical and business stakeholders. The Thursday-through-Monday schedule requires weekend availability, with a hybrid arrangement based in Chicago.

Supports Avant’s Corrective Action Program by reviewing risk incidents, managing issues through closure, tracking remediation, documenting controls, identifying emerging enterprise risks, and reporting trends to leadership. The role partners cross-functionally on risk mitigation, change management, and risk culture initiatives. Responsibilities require data analysis, SQL querying, project management, risk management knowledge, strong collaboration, and advanced Microsoft Office skills.

Owns consumer credit reporting accuracy across loan and credit card products. Responsibilities include data validation, Metro 2 submissions, dispute investigations, regulatory compliance, defect root-cause analysis, corrective actions, automation, offshore team oversight, escalations, and cross-functional remediation. The role requires maintaining accurate, timely reporting to credit bureaus while meeting FCRA and other statutory deadlines.

Leads Avant’s internal audit and SOX function, advising the Board Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee on controls and risk. Builds the audit charter, methodology, risk assessment, audit plan, SOX compliance roadmap, and remediation governance from an early-stage program. Recruits staff, manages co-sourced partners, oversees testing and deficiency evaluation, and implements GRC, analytics, automated testing, and continuous monitoring capabilities. Partners with Finance, Technology, Legal, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk while maintaining audit independence.

Build and evolve Avant’s data platform by automating data lifecycles, integrating systems, enabling governed self-service analytics, and scaling Databricks-based data solutions. Partner with Business Operations and Product teams to define requirements and technical solutions. Develop practical, reliable, observable, and cost-effective Generative AI and agentic tooling that improves analyst workflows and delivers measurable business value.

Own complex operational accounting processes and month-end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, SOX controls, audits, and process documentation. Investigate accounting issues, improve data quality, automate workflows, and implement controlled AI-enabled accounting processes. Partner cross-functionally on systems and transformation projects, review junior accountants’ work, and mentor staff. The role is based in a hybrid downtown Chicago office.

The Manager, Identity Fraud Strategy oversees identity verification and authentication strategies, leads a fraud analytics team, and partners with CIAM to minimize fraud while enhancing customer experience.

Support tax planning, research, and compliance for federal, state, local and Canadian taxes. Prepare tax workpapers and provisions, coordinate with external providers, respond to notices, compute payments, prepare indirect tax filings, and partner with Accounting, Treasury and FP&A for tax data and projections.

As a Sr Associate in Fraud Analytics, you'll analyze data, develop fraud rules, implement models, and collaborate with stakeholders to mitigate fraud losses.