Primary responsibilities:
- Conceive, design, and monitor fraud risk management strategies to manage fraud losses and improve business profitability for consumer lending products
- Identify opportunities and gaps within the current portfolio of PayPal’s Fraud Risk controls, including continuously evolving fraud trends
- Formulate & propose solutions to ensure optimal balance between user experience, business enablement, operational expense and loss exposure
- Communicate concise and actionable business strategies and present new strategy recommendations to senior management for approval
- Monitor performance of existing & new solutions and optimize to ensure desired results
Education & Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance, Economics or related quantitative discipline
- 3-6 years proven credit or fraud risk analytics experience or equivalent experience in analytics focused roles
- Must be an intuitive, organized analytical thinker, with the ability to perform detailed analysis
- Proficiency in SQL and Excel. Proficiency in at least one statistical analysis tool: SAS / R / Python
- Proven experience in handling large datasets and deriving insights using statistical tools and analytic reasoning
- Strong written, oral, and interpersonal skills a must including the ability to explain and/or present analysis
