Data Analyst V/ Risk Analyst

AVA Consulting is seeking a Data Analyst V/ Risk Analyst

Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid)

U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.

Job Description:

• Client is a global commerce leader that allows you to shape how the world buys, sells, and gives.
• The Global Risk & Protections function at Client works to ensure phenomenal experiences when buyers and sellers come together and engage in commerce on the biggest marketplace in the world. This involves comprehensively understanding Payments & Risks on platform. Identifying the opportunity areas and helping build scalable solutions to drive outstanding user experience.
• Analytics is critical for a data driven Risk function. Core analytics capabilities include the ability to instrument critical metrics, identify the landscape of the entire function, figure out opportunities for improvement, work with product and payment providers to craft scalable solutions, and monitor their performance.
• The role is data and analytically intensive. Successful candidates should be quick learners, strategic problem solvers, operational and execution driven facilitators, problem solvers, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. This role is heavily cross-functional and ideal for candidates who enjoy both defining and solving complex problems, while getting deeply involved in the classification domain and product partners.
• Skills in problem definition, rigorous analysis, and recommendation development will also be essential as well as demonstration of exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative and integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Risk Insights: Extract and analyze data from large incidents, near misses, and product/portfolio analysis to uncover critical insights for improving risk controls.
• Design and Implement Risk Policies: Contribute to the creation and deployment of risk policy frameworks to effectively manage credit risk, fraud prevention, product and portfolio risks, access policies, limits, and funds availability.
• Monitor and Optimize Risk Strategies: Continuously track the performance of existing risk strategies, identifying areas for improvement across policies, operations, and outputs.
• Collaborate for Global Risk Management: Partner with cross-functional risk teams to establish and deliver scalable, global risk management policies throughout the buyer lifecycle.
• Build Strategic Partnerships: Foster relationships with regional business partners, product owners, engineering, incident management, and risk operations to align on objectives, prioritize initiatives, and support the implementation of key risk strategies.

Requirements:

Required Skills:

• 4 years of data experience required.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, particularly with SQL
• Experience in building dashboards with Tableau that enable user self-discovery and drive insights
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Statistics, Engineering, Operations Research, mathematics, risk management, finance or related fields.
• Communicate ideas succinctly and accurately; tailor your communication to a broad range of audiences; active listening and good presentation skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Proficiency in python is a plus.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks and models is a plus.
• Risk experience is a plus.

NOTE: Interested Candidates can apply by sending their Updated Resume and Contact Details.

Ron Tolson

AVA Consulting

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