Remote Fraud Operations Analyst

Summary

Join Sezzle as a Fraud Operations Associate Analyst to support fraud monitoring, investigating suspicious activity, blocking users deemed fraudulent or risky, and clearing false positive flags. This is a non-exempt/hourly position with various shift options.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 1 year of experience in investigating and resolving fraud incidents
• Experienced in analyzing data and comfortable making impactful decisions in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
• Attention to detail and ability to multitask
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong business judgment and communication skills
• Ability to self-start and work with minimal supervision after training
• Able to work through holidays
• Minimum GPA of 4.2 out of 5.0

Responsibilities

• Monitor real-time transactions and other customer behaviors flagged for fraud and abuse for manual review
• Investigate individual transactions using internal policies and review methodologies to determine if the transactions are fraudulent or not
• Understand our systems and tools; investigate account patterns through data analysis
• Research fraud and user behavior to contribute to machine learning models, rules and other detection systems
• Collaborate with analysts, operations specialists, data scientists and engineering to improve our fraud prevention mechanisms, processes and tools
• Learn and maintain strong domain knowledge of the world of fraud including prevention techniques and technologies
• Maintain or exceed established service level agreements (SLAs) for timely resolution of queued cases to minimize potential losses
• Handle escalations from internal and external stakeholders in a professional and efficient manner

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience in fintech, payments, lending, banking, or financial institutions is a plus
• Degree in statistics, math, finance, economics, or related quantitative discipline; graduate degree a plus
• Experience in using database query language (e.g. SQL, etc), and data processing and analytics tools such as Python / R / SAS is a plus

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity: Sezzle Inc. is an equal opportunity employer