Proj Mgr, Analytics & Strategy
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– Analyze trends in suspicious activity during the process of opening new accounts, transactional activity and account takeover activity. This will require basic understanding of deposit products and the data structure in Teradata, SAS and Hadoop environments.
– Build detections rules and statistical models for detecting and preventing fraud. Analyze and report on their performance.
– Assist with a wide variety of ad-hoc analyses
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Skills
* Bachelor’s (Masters strongly preferred) degree in Business/ Statistics/ Economics
* 4 years Banking/Lending experience or other substantial analytical experience (with some Fraud Prevention experience preferred)
* Critical thinking skills
* Ability to use all available tools for analyzing account activity including but not limited to – core banking platform, authentication tools, vendor solutions and data processing tools.
* High proficiency in programming (data processing and analysis) using SQL, SAS, R, shell scripting, Python
* Experience with Teradata, Hadoop, Unix environments is highly preferred
* MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
* Excellent communications (oral and written), interpersonal / business partnering, and organizational skills.
* Understanding of banking regulations, e.g. Reg CC, Reg E, Fair Banking, AML/BSA etc.
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