Risk Analyst
Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to create and enhance their digital credit offerings. Built by lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years—with a suite of proven product modules for credit decisioning, fraud prevention, account verifications, servicing engines and CRM solutions. Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk consulting & analytics. Amount clients include financial institutions collectively managing close to $1T in US assets and servicing more than 25 million US customers. Visit www.amount.com for more information.
Job Description
Let’s get to business. Amount is looking for a new seasoned analytics professional to join the team in Chicago. This position plays a critical role in Amount's Fraud Analytics Team. This role would be working directly on developing new fraud prevention strategies to minimize risk and optimize the customer experience for Amount’s unsecured loan product. We are looking for a hands on candidate who takes ownership and seeks opportunities. Prior fraud analytics experience is not required.
What you do at Amount:
- Using visualization tools to build dashboards and monitor key performance indicators
- Using data to understand new ways of finding impactful insights from limited data sets and develop recommendations
- Collaborating with cross-functional business partners on new initiatives, project requests, prioritization and delivery
- Developing and implementing verification rules using analytical methods like segmentation, predictive models, hypothesis testing, etc.
- Communicating strategies/proposals/solutions to key stakeholders
Why you are a fit for Amount:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field
- 1+ years analytical experience
- 1+ years of experience leveraging data tools such as SQL, R, Python
- Ability to translate analysis results into clearly defined and implementable strategies/rules
- Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
- High level of inquisitiveness, initiative and critical thinking
- Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management
Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.