Senior Risk Analyst at Dave Inc. (Greater LA Area, CA or Remote)
What You'll Do
- Drive End-to-End processes with partners across many organizations
- Plan and execute long-term projects from start to finish.
- Drive partners from across the company to help in the execution process.
- Think and execute product requests to help Risk achieve their goals of reducing fraud losses and improving customers’ experience.
- Develop data-driven decision strategies to support the business’ financial goals, monitor their impact and adjust it according to the dynamic world we operate in.
- Work with Dave’s detailed business data to optimize performance and minimize financial loss across multiple products.
- Advocate for your data products by contributing to business cases that improve prioritization and identify new trends and opportunities for your space.
- Cultivate relationships with partners across fraud, risk management, operations, product, policy, and engineering to remove roadblocks, provide insight, and build risk/fraud roadmap.
- Create analytical frameworks to measure team success: partner with teams to determine success metrics, create approaches to track the data and troubleshoot errors, measure and evaluate the data, then develop a common language for all colleagues to understand these Indicators.
- Works independently and proficiently. Accountable for own results. Reviews are mainly for consultation and sharing ideas.
- Works on multiple assignments simultaneously and in all areas of a standard project in the area of responsibility.
- Ad-hoc analysis to address urgent high impact analysis for business stakeholders
- Mentors junior data analysts.
- Excellent communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations
What You'll Need
- 4+ years of quantitative analyses experience in the financial industry to build data-driven strategy for solving risk management/fraud detection problems.
- High proficiency in fundamental technical skills (experience with SQL/programming/scripting language). Familiar with Python is a plus.
- Has solid knowledge of internal and external business processes and data, systems and flows, as well as analytic tools, processes, and methodologies, solutions do the job with a high level of proficiency and quality.
- Has a solid understanding of EServ financial outcomes, initiatives, strategies, and future directions, as well as organization structures to be able to see the big picture, connect the dots, and navigate organization structures with relative ease.
- Has some basic understanding of business and finance in the context of the mobile banking business.
- Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions, including product, risk, compliance, finance and so on.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Proven strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience in Financial Services or FinTech preferred
- Previous work on evaluating product iterations or experiments