Summary
FreedomPay is seeking a Risk Analyst to join their cross-functional spam and fraud fighting efforts. The role involves identifying fraud patterns, developing automated prevention mechanisms, and creating data-driven policies to protect the system from abuse and fraud.
Responsibilities
- Design and write automated rules to prevent fraud, spam and other abuse on the platform
- Test and track rule performance
- Identify incidents and patterns of abuse using various techniques and data analysis tools
- Create and implement fraud and spam policies
- Research spam, fraud and user behavior to contribute to machine learning models, rules and other detection systems
- Collaborate with analysts, operations specialists, data scientists and engineering to create tools, rules and prevention mechanisms
- Solve complex problems by gathering and distilling web, financial, and behavioral data into actionable findings
- Maintain and improve fraud and spam metrics, as well as track, analyze and communicate these metrics
- Maintain strong domain knowledge of the worlds of spam and fraud including prevention techniques and technologies
Skills
- 3+ years of analytics experience or a related technical discipline
- Master of SQL and Excel (MySQL/Hive preferred)
- Proficiency in at least one data analysis or scripting language: Python, R, Matlab, etc
- Familiarity with Internet technologies and protocols
- The ability to think quickly and learn even faster
- Ability to work well in a highly collaborative environment
- A proven ability to formalize complex ideas and process into a well defined logic
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- BA or BS Degree or higher
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 3+ years of analytics experience or a related technical discipline
- Master of SQL and Excel (MySQL/Hive preferred)
- Proficiency in at least one data analysis or scripting language: Python, R, Matlab, etc
- Familiarity with Internet technologies and protocols
- The ability to think quickly and learn even faster
- Ability to work well in a highly collaborative environment
- A proven ability to formalize complex ideas and process into a well defined logic
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- BA or BS Degree or higher