Senior Scientist, Decision Sciences

About the role

The Decision Scientist will be part of the Decision Sciences team responsible for managing fraud losses while optimizing revenue opportunities on online Western Union transactions. In this role you will use your analytical skills to develop and maintain a suite of risk models and rules to ensure our customers, as well as Western Union, are protected against fraud.

What you'll do

• Develop real time and batch risk models to screen online transactions and stop fraudulent ones
• Document and communicate model results and insights internally
• Continuously track and evaluate the effectiveness of risk models and rules
• Analyze online transaction activity to identify loss reduction opportunities and devise actionable plans to exploit such opportunities
• Profile customer behavior to identify opportunities to enhance model/rule performance

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• SQL
• Power BI
• Data analysis
• Python
• R
• Excel
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Statistics
• AWS
• Machine learning
• PowerPoint