Sr Analyst, Fraud Analytics (Weekends Required)

Avant • Chicago, IL

63d • $75,000 - $98,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Avant is looking for knowledgeable fraud professionals to join our Fraud Operations team in Chicago. This position is critical in supporting real-time escalations of accounts within Avant's alerting, offline analysis of emerging threat vectors, and communication of investigation details, including opportunities to improve our current customer authentication and escalation policy to key business leaders' key stakeholders. This role is scheduled Thursday through Monday and requires weekend availability

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Statistics, Business Analytics, related field, or its equivalent (Master's preferred)
• 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
• 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 the 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 to Sr. Management

Benefits

• Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Time Off
• Flexible Work Environment - (i.e. Mon/Tues/Thurs in-person)
• Generous Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance and Post-parental leave ramp-up program
• Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
• Summer Fridays
• Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
• And who doesn't love the swag

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees