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Fraud Data Analyst

RELX
London
2 weeks ago
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About the Role

You will use your experience with data analysis to investigate suspicious behavior. This will provide new insights to customers leading to immediate real-world impact in the form of lower customer friction, reduced fraud losses and as a result, increased customer profitability.

You’ll leverage a real-time platform analyzing billions of transactions per month for some of the largest companies operating in Financial Services, Insurance, e-Commerce, and On-Demand Services. These tools will allow you to attain a unique perspective of the Internet and every persona connected to it. You’ll be continually collaborating with internal product and engineering teams, customer-facing account teams, and external business leaders and risk managers. The comprehensive policy you build will go head-to-head against some of the most motivated attackers in the world to protect billions in revenue.

Responsibilities

Conducting in-depth reviews of complex fraud cases. identifying trends and actionable insights, documenting your findings and making clear recommendations on how to mitigate risk

Using your SQL and Python skills to increase our customers’ fraud capture. While reducing false positives, conducting offline analysis of customer data to expose patterns and statistically tune policies. Produce executive-level reports and own the end-to-end delivery of your recommendations by writing rules into the ThreatMetrix® decision engine

Building dashboards & reports to track value delivered by the solution. Increasing focus on more bespoke external-facing dashboards that surface the most important insights to each customer

Using your excellent attention to detail and ability to craft a story through data. Delivering industry-leading presentations for external and executive audiences with non-technical background

Scoping, planning, and delivering customer-focused projects including root cause analysis, reports, dashboards, rule mining and health checks. Demonstrate a professional and customer-centric persona when interacting directly with customers via phone, e-mail, and chat

Collaborating with ThreatMetrix teams. Including Products, Engineering, Sales and other Professional Services colleagues around the world to continually redefine best practices

Requirements

Very good knowledge of Python and SQL (experience with Snowflake highly desirable)

Knowledge of BI tools such as Superset, Tableau , PowerBI or similar is desirable

Knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow, DBT or Google Cloud Dataflow is a bonus

Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a deep curiosity for fraud detection

Excellent attention to detail to ensure quality of project delivery for customers stands out amongst industry peers

Track record of building external and executive reports and presentations

Interest or experience in consulting within the risk, fraud or payments industry

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