Analyst II - Fraud Strategy

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eCommerce • Payments • Installment Loans • Millennials • Financial Services

1001 - 5000

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Description

• Proactively explore data and identify opportunities to improve identity and fraud prevention strategies • Translate analysis and trends into decisioning logic recommendations to improve identity and fraud conversion rates or reduce fraud losses • Own end-to-end analytics workflow, including finding the pain points, defining success metrics, socializing ideas across the organization, and monitoring the A/B test • Use DBT and Looker to monitor the performance of the identity and fraud decisioning systems • Develop scalable frameworks to manage tiered cutoffs for proprietary fraud machine learning models • Evaluate new external data sources to solve individual identity risk, device risk and transaction risk • Partner with Machine Learning and to build fraud strategies for new product and user segments

Requirements

• EXPERIENCE - 2-5 years work experience as a data analyst/data scientist in fraud/identity or credit risk at a FinTech company • TECHNICAL SKILLS - Must be highly proficient in SQL; Experience with Python or R and data visualization tools is a plus; Experience/knowledge with Machine Learning is a plus • PEOPLE SKILLS - A team player with the ability to collaborate and influence across different teams in the organization • COMMUNICATION - Ability to clearly communicate findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences • PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE - Passion to understand how the product works and how to change to make it more effective • MULTI-TASKING - Strong time management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities; Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be responsive and available during high intensity moments • EDUCATION - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree degree in a quantitatively rigorous discipline like analytics, engineering, statistics, math, or economics • RISK KNOWLEDGE - Knowledge of the fundamentals of payment processing and an understanding of industry risk trends, including familiarity with risk strategy development

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount