Data Analyst - Fraud

The Risk & Analytics team supports decision-making and operations in all parts of the business through data analytics and also designs the models and tools to reduce the company’s credit and fraud risk.

The Risk & Analytics team is currently looking for a Data Scientist to help combat fraud within the payment ecosystem. The fraud team’s role is to use payment and consumer behavior data to identify fraudulent patterns, understand how bad actors are abusing us and set rules to prevent losses. 

1. More than 2 years work experience in a related role (data science, data analysis, business intelligence).

2. Experience extracting insights about user behavior in the Japanese marketplace.

3. Experience in payment fraud is a big plus.

4. Proven ability to translate technical findings from analysis into simple takeaways for a non-technical audience.

5. Experience working with common data science query and general languages (e.g. SQL + Python).

6. Experience with common machine learning tools (e.g. SKLearn, Keras, XGBoost) is a big plus.

7. Fluent in English.

8. Business level Japanese language ability or higher is a must.