Business Analytics Sr Analyst (Digital, Credit Card, First Party Fraud)

$90,080 - $135,120/Yr

Citigroup - Erlanger, KY

Full-time

Erlanger, KY

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

This role within the Fraud Analytics, Modeling & Intelligence organization at Citi focuses on executing fraud analytics and strategies to support the North American and global credit card and retail bank businesses. The position involves leveraging data to identify fraud trends and implementing strategies to prevent and mitigate various types of fraud attacks throughout the fraud lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Leverage data and advanced analytics to derive patterns, trends, and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis.
• Ownership and management of fraud rules, scores, and detection strategies, including risk appetite execution and POS interdiction strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide strategy recommendations based on data and trend analysis, and implement mitigation strategies.
• Build effective relationships within and outside the Fraud organization to ensure successful execution of key portfolio priorities.
• Identify potential process gaps and opportunities for improving the effectiveness of controls and governance processes.
• Generate and manage regular and ad-hoc reporting to enable effective monitoring and identification of emerging trends.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in statistics, mathematics, physics, economics, or other analytical or quantitative discipline required; Master's Degree or PhD preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in a relevant field.
• Experience working in a Big Data environment with hands-on coding experience in traditional (SAS, SQL) and/or open source (Python, Impala, Hive) tools.
• Familiarity with traditional and advanced machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as Logistic Regression, Gradient Boosting, and Random Forests.
• Proficiency in data visualization tools, such as Tableau.
• Excellent quantitative and analytic skills; ability to derive patterns, trends, and insights, and perform risk/reward trade-off analysis.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to connect analytics to business impacts and present to peers and management.
• Extremely detail-oriented with intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to multi-task and work against tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently with baseline instructions/guidelines from management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off packages including vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays