Senior Anti-Fraud Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Analyze real-time data to detect emerging fraud trends, unusual behaviors, and deficiencies in detection systems.

• Create and refine fraud detection methodologies utilizing rules, both supervised and unsupervised models, anomaly detection, and link analysis.

• Assess the precision, thoroughness, and predictive capability of fraud indicators.

• Review client traffic and alert streams.

• Evaluate false positives and overlooked fraud instances, offering specific enhancement suggestions.

• Develop and enhance baseline rule sets and proactive alerts for both common and new fraud situations.

• Transform analytical insights into actionable product recommendations.

• Assist with intricate, data-heavy client cases as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in anti-fraud, risk analytics, applied data science, or a similar analytical position involving complex data and anomaly detection.

• Comprehensive understanding of exploratory data analysis and traditional machine learning techniques, encompassing both supervised and unsupervised methods.

• Hands-on experience with anomaly detection, clustering, and link-based or graph analysis.

• Practical knowledge in fraud prevention or fraud analytics.

• Proficient in Python and SQL.

• Practical experience with analytics tools such as ClickHouse, Trino, Superset, dbt, DataHub, or equivalent.

• Capability to identify data-quality challenges, biases, leakage, overfitting, and misleading outcomes in models.

• Skill in assessing detection quality through false positives, false negatives, and other pertinent metrics.

• Competence in conveying complex insights through clear reasoning, numerical data, and specific examples.

• Confident yet discerning use of AI-enhanced analytical tools, including the ability to validate their results.

• Proficiency in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• A remote-first, trust-centric environment with no mandatory office attendance or tracking.

• Options for office or coworking space access in select locations.

• Flexible work hours without a defined 9-to-5 schedule.

• Day off for birthdays.

• Ten personal days each year.

• Seven sick days without the need for documentation.

• Additional time off for Christmas and New Year celebrations.

• Role-specific training opportunities and sponsorship for professional events.

• Financial bonuses for marital union and the arrival of a new child.

• Fully funded team offsite retreats multiple times a year.

• Necessary tools and hardware provided to facilitate work tasks.