Remote Analyst II

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Affirm

πŸ’΅ $124k-$190k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Job highlights

Summary

Join us in our mission to deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve lives. The Fraud Strategy and Analytics team works cross-functionally with Machine Learning, Product, Engineering, Operations to combat fraudulent activities and foster a safe platform for our users.

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

Responsibilities

  • 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

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work, flexible hours
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Bonuses and incentives
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Wellness programs
  • Family and parental leave
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