Senior Risk Strategy Analyst

About the team

The Risk Operations team's mission is to mitigate risks and reduce our losses. The team works by acquiring and gathering information about deviations and data that help us improve risk processes, and block malicious actors, supporting the revenue and profitability goals of our business.

What you will do: 

• Proactively analyze data, identify trends, and generate impactful recommendations to drive business goals
• Compile trends allowing for detection model or rule adjustments. Summarize and document findings with recommendations for data scientists
• Support Risk Operations with process and tool improvements
• Optimize Risk Operations strategy by identifying opportunities to automate processes
• Be the primary point of contact with Data Science and Data Analytics/Engineering teams
• Assist the customer support and sales teams by handling internal/external inquiries regarding approval/loss rates
• This role requires availability to work on calls
  

Who you are: 

• Fraud/risk experience in the financial services/e-commerce industry - preferably with some experience in payments or remittances. 
• Familiarity with fraud concepts such as account-take-over, stolen financials, friendly fraud, and identity theft. 
• Strong analytical skills and an understanding of how to utilize data to target improvements and solve problems
• Ability to recognize fraud trends, patterns, "spidey sense"
• Experience with translating fraud trends into rule logic and/or feature suggestions 
• Experience in large-scale data analysis using Python
• Intermediate/advanced SQL skills
• Ability to communicate in English