Push Payments Analyst, Payments Risk Operations

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As a Push Payments Analyst on the Payments Risk Operations team, you’ll be fully responsible for identifying and mitigating payments fraud risk on one of our critical payment rails without negatively impacting core metrics and the broader customer experience
This role will report to the Manager of Push Payments within Risk Operations, and will be based remotely in Ireland
 

What you’ll be doing (ie
job duties):

• Identify, investigate and mitigate fraudulent European payment methods (SEPA, iDEAL, UK Faster Payments, etc
  ) deposit activity
  
• Implement logic targeting bad actors and high-risk behavior associated with unauthorized deposit activity across multiple regions
  
• Review and respond to alerts regarding anomalous customer and transaction behavior
  
• Measure fraud performance across European payment methods, develop core metrics, and create dashboards to track and understand them
  
• Proactively identify and close gaps in our monitoring
  
• Own risk controls from end-to-end and scale processes to provide appropriate coverage as we expand our business
  
• Own reporting processes and communication with relevant banking partners
  
• Work with internal stakeholders in Product, Growth, Data Science and Engineering to develop and drive forward custom risk management strategies and techniques for different geographies
  
• Use data to make risk decisions impacting large segments of our customer population; effectively measure and assess associated tradeoffs using quantitative analysis
  
• Synthesize data learnings into compelling stories and communicate them to Payments Risk leadership
  

What we look for in you (ie
job requirements):

• 4+ years relevant experience
  
• 2+ years fighting SEPA or other push payment fraud in an e-commerce or financial services environment
  
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis, working with databases, and querying (, SQL, MySQL, etc)
  
• BA / BS degree or equivalent practical experience
  
• Strong knowledge of European monetary policy, push payment processes, and fraud claim investigations
  
• A passion for fighting fraud and abuse, and the curiosity to self-drive investigations, identify patterns, and find the root cause
  
• Experience in data analyses using SQL
  
• Experience with data visualization and storytelling using Looker, Tableau or other business intelligence platforms
  
• Be able to independently create plans for analytics projects and build collaboration within the team
  
• Demonstrate our core cultural values: clear communication, positive energy, continuous learning, and efficient execution
  

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of statistical concepts and experience in applying them
  
• Experience working with quantitative tools such as Python or R
  
• Experience working with machine learning models and teams
  
• An understanding of blockchain analytics and/or fraud trends within the cryptocurrency ecosystem
  

PID: P21608

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