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Associate – Fraud Analytics
Company | Avant |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $95000 – $140000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level |
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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