Fraud Lead Decision Scientist

At Scalapy the Fraud risk team is mainly managing Stolen Financial risk and Account Takeover.

As a Lead Fraud Decision Scientist, you’ll be responsible for key KPIs for the company's loss metrics with a good balance of customer experience. You will be tasked to set goals, create strategy, and closely collaborate with product managers, engineers and business stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for detecting changed fraud trends, writing rules for different  patterns and closely monitoring the solution performance.

You will be responsible for:

• Overseeing the development and enhancement of fraud risk management strategy for Scalapay 
• Maintain and refine the fraud strategy framework, including fraud model strategies and flash fraud surgical rules
• Monitoring performance, detect early warning signals, and implement proactive measures to mitigate losses 
• Working closely with our Data Science team to optimise our fraud risk models to keep the model strategy up-to-date with high performance
• identify trends and developing features by reviewing cases daily to timely capture flash fraud trends with quick response to stop loss leakage
• Partnering with product and engineering team in implementing fraud features and models, and enhancing solutions
• Swiftly respond to system issues and deep dive into root cause analysis
• Master large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as SQL and Python

You’ll be great for this role if:

• A minimum of 5 years experience in quantitative statistics, maths, business, or related disciplines
• Experience in fraud risk solutions is highly desirable
• Experience in data mining and analysis tools such as Python/ SQL etc
• A strong understanding of fraud patterns, including ATO or stolen CC.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and trends to make informed risk decisions
• Self-starter, motivated by a passion for developing the best possible solutions to problems.
• Intellectually curious and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Why you should join Scalapay:

• Attractive packages based on skills and experience - the salary band we have for this position is of 60'000-70'000 € (Gross Annual Salary) 
• International environment with significant challenges to be met every day
• Lots of opportunities to work with a team of industry tech leaders who are focused on delivering products that offer exceptional user experiences
• Personalised support to accelerate your professional growth and take ownership of the products you deliver: we want to help you grow!
• Latest technologies and being encouraged to bring your flair to the role.

Recruitment Process:

1. A quick chat with one of our Talent Acquisition team members
2. The first interview with the Hiring Manager to dive deep into your experiences and better understand your motivation
3. A case study to test your hard skills
4. A final chat with Simone, our CEO