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Associate – Fraud Analytics

Associate – Fraud Analytics

CompanyAvant
LocationChicago, IL, USA
Salary$95000 – $140000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelMid Level

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Technology, Statistics, Business Analytics, related field (Master’s preferred), or comparable experience
  • 3+ years of analytical experience in the consumer finance industry
  • 3+ years of experience leveraging data tools such as SQL, R, Python
  • 3+ years of experience conducting data analytics in a lending/banking organization
  • Ability to translate analysis results into clearly defined and implementable strategies/rules
  • Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
  • High level of inquisitiveness, initiative, and critical thinking
  • Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management
  • Prior experience in statistics and machine learning modeling techniques through coursework or professional experience
  • Proven ability to communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement fraud rules using analytical methods like segmentation, predictive models, hypothesis testing, etc.
  • Use visualization tools like looker to build dashboards and monitor key performance indicators
  • Use data to understand new ways of finding impactful insights from limited data sets and develop recommendations
  • Assist with data wrangling and automation of data pipelines for real time alerting and performance monitoring
  • Own and run key processes to reduce fraud losses
  • Analyze data, create models/strategies, and recommend solutions for the latest fraud trends
  • Work with stakeholders throughout the company to identify opportunities for leveraging company data and third-party vendor data to drive business solutions
  • Work with the team to measure impact and make updates to the model/strategies and services as needed
  • Communicate results, explain behavior of models/strategies, and set appropriate expectations with stakeholders
  • Strategize on building models and assist with deployments into production
  • Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner to Sr. Management

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s preferred